Tux & Jeans Theology @ Land21

The human knowledge of God in this so-called great age of information technology

edwinv1230 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:52:42 +0000

“We live in exciting times,” Paul Borthwick proclaims to his Christian audience. “Historians’ veins pump with adrenaline when they observe the changes, events, developments, and growth in our world. As Marshall McLuhan predicted years ago, our world has become a ‘global village.’ Electronic communication, jet travel, international networks, and interdependent economies have simultaneously shrunk the world while vastly enlarging the amount of information we try to manage.”

If that be the case, it can also be said at the same rate that we are also living in perilous times … if we are ill-informed.

In the beginning God …

edwinv1230 — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:23:10 +0000

Unlike a number of books on theology and apologetics, the Judeo-Christian Scripture unhesitatingly begins with God. It does not begin with adapting an apologetic approach to carefully demonstrate the reality of God’s existence to an unbelieving audience, as if it just cannot proceed to speak about Him without first going through such a delicate undertaking. It simply states its opening line without apology with the words “In the beginning God …” (Gen. 1:1).

Postmodern atheism

edwinv1230 — Sat, 15 May 2010 17:01:52 +0000

Atheism, which in the words of Etienne Borne “is the deliberate, definite, dogmatic denial of the existence of God,” is one of the major components of postmodernism’s philosophical belief system. The postmodernists, however, appear to be more subtle than many of their fellow atheists in their disavowal of the reality of God’s existence …

The new atheists and the postmodernists: what do they have in common?

edwinv1230 — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:09:19 +0000

The new atheists and the postmodernists have at least one thing in common. They have the same enemies, consisting mostly of Judeo-Christian believers, those so-called “misguided” followers of God who have imposed upon humanity moral and spiritual principles that are deemed to imprison people in fear. They therefore share one common major goal – as if following the advice of Friedrich Nietzsche’s parabolic poem Thus Spake Zarathustra, they aim to obliterate the Judeo-Christian believers, or, at the very least, debunk the Judeo-Christian notion of God in popular culture and the academy, a notion that many of them perceive to be the single major obstacle to absolute human freedom and creativity.

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The so-called new brand of atheism and the postmodern mood of the hour

edwinv1230 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:40:15 +0000

Unlike the much more sophisticated postmodern thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Michel Focault, Paul de Man and Richard Rorty, the new atheists, led by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Samuel Harris and Daniel Dennett, appear to be out of touch with 21st century realities. It is most particularly obvious to those who are familiar with the current intellectual and moral crises that the various expressions of the postmodern way of thinking have brought into the field of philosophical inquiry. As if trying to resurrect the past, the new atheists appeal to outdated rhetorics and arguments that have long been dismissed in the academic world as untenable and unfounded …

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A new brand of atheism on the rise in this so-called postmodern age

edwinv1230 — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:52:08 +0000

Oxford historical theology professor and scholar Alister McGrath (under whose lectureship I was once given the privilege to sit when I was still a seminary student) might have gotten it wrong when he announced more than 5 years ago that atheism was already a spent force and a dying philosophical belief system. Or he might have been correct, at least, at that very point in time, but only until atheism was able to recover from its near-death condition. And great indeed was its recovery, for lo and behold, Christian theologians and apologists are currently engaged in a close fight with a new brand of atheism this side of the story of this so-called postmodern age …

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“In Good We Trust,” says a humanist billboard. But can we really be good without God?

edwinv1230 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:42:07 +0000

The American Humanist Association (AHA) is sponsoring a series of billboards in the Moscow, Idaho area in the United States to promote a new brand of atheism, one of which has just been unveiled last week, reports Jennifer Riley of the Christian Post. As true of all the other billboards elsewhere around the world, it does not simply aim to entertain but it carries with it a message of its own for everyone to see and ponder upon: “In Good We Trust.”

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The message of the cross of Christ, an offense to the world

edwinv1230 — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:43:41 +0000

The message of the cross of Christ, says the apostle Paul, is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles (1 Cor. 1:23). Indeed, it is an offense to human pride, to human wisdom, to whatever is dear to the depraved human heart and mind.

For this reason, the enemies of Christ have done everything they could afford to do to get rid of the message of His cross. They did to the messengers of the cross what they did to Christ. Some of them they killed, many of them they persecuted. But soon they realized the message of the cross had remained alive. They could not kill it. They could not suppress it. They just could not stop it …

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The Judeo-Christian diagnosis of the human heart

edwinv1230 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:06:44 +0000

“For several decades we psychologists looked upon the whole matter of sin and moral accountability as a great incubus and acclaimed our liberation from it as epoch making. But at length we have discovered that to be free in this sense, that is, to have the excuse of being sick rather than sinful, is to court the danger of also becoming lost. The danger is, I believe, betokened by the widespread interest in existentialism, which we are presently witnessing.”

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