The hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been fighting it too ... » Go

The old liberal theologians in Germany began by accepting the presupposition of the uniformity of natural causes as a closed system. Thus they rejected everything ... » Go

Defense is proper and necessary because in every age historic Christianity will be under attack. Defense does not mean being on the defensive. One must not be ... » Go

Communication means that an idea which I have in my mind passes through my lips (or fingers, in most art forms) and reaches the other person’s mind. ... » Go

The fact that [the Christian] alone has a sufficient standard by which to fight evil, does not mean that he will so fight. The Christian is the ... » Go

We do not need to bear our guilt, nor do we even have to merit the merit of Christ. He does it all. So in ... » Go

But if I live in a world of nonabsolutes and would fight social injustice on the mood of the moment, how can I establish what social justice ... » Go

The historic Christian position is that man’s dilemma has a moral cause. God, being nondetermined, created man as a nondetermined person. This is a difficult idea for ... » Go

Anyone with sensitivity and concern for the world can see that man is in a great dilemma. Man is able both to rise to great heights ... » Go

At the same time one must avoid the opposite mistake of saying that because God has communicated truly concerning science, all scientific study is wasted. ... » Go

Why should God not communicate propositionally to man, the verbalizing being, whom he made in such a way that we communicate propositionally to each other? Therefore, in ... » Go

A man like Sir Julian Huxley has clarified the dilemma by acknowledging, though he is an atheist, that somehow or other, against all that one might expect, ... » Go

What were these presuppositions? The basic one was that there really are such things as absolutes. [The last generation] accepted the possibility of an absolute ... » Go

They believed they could begin with themselves and without having to depart from the logic of antithesis. They thought that on their own, rationalistically, finite ... » Go

Some forms of homosexuality today are of a similar nature, in that they are not just homosexuality but a philosophic expression. One must have understanding for the ... » Go

Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope. ... » Go

[T]he scientific symbol has become an important tool for writing increasingly lengthy formulae with greater accuracy. In other words, it has value according to the sharpness of ... » Go

“I do not ask for answers, I just believe.” This sounds spiritual, and it deceives many fine people. These are often young men and women who are ... » Go

Probably the best way to describe this concept of modern theology is to say that it is faith in faith, rather than faith directed to an ... » Go

[P]eople in our culture in general are already in the process of being accustomed to accept nondefined, contentless religious words and symbols, without any rational or historical ... » Go

Where was the conviction that to wage war against inequality is the church’s responsibility and not a political ideology? Where were those farsighted believers who ... » Go