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Schaeffer and Irrationality’s Spread of Despair

Concerning the shift from objective rationality to modern irrationality, Francis Schaeffer writes: The shift spread gradually, and in three different ways. People did not suddenly wake up one morning and find that it had permeated everywhere at once. First of all it spread geographically. The ideas began in German y and spread outward. They affected […]

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Archive Nota Bene Steven Wedgeworth

What Rob Bell Talks About and What He Talks Around

Dr. Michael Kruger has a helpful review of Rob Bell’s latest book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God. After giving us a summary of the book’s presentation, Dr. Kruger concludes with a leveling critique: In the end, my overall concern about this volume is a simple one: it is not Christian. Bell’s makeover […]

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Lamennais on Indifference and Truth

Words introductory, in which I do the disclaimer thing: The following quotation should not be taken as an endorsement of Lamennais in omnibus rebus as anyone who reads his Wikipedia entry will immediately understand. But the quotation itself is worthy of some reflection. And anyway, I was directed to it by the great Bavinck. So […]

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One of these things is not like the other

Dr Koyzis discusses the intolerance of supposedly ultratolerant smorgasbord spirituality here. Well known for his kindliness, Dr Koyzis has unsurprisingly refrained from pointing out the arrogance of eclecticists’ colonializing appropriations, and has confined himself to pointing out the position’s contradictions. But Dr Koyzis, being a neo-Calvinist, seems to suggest at the end of his short […]