Monthly Archives: July 2009

Love So Deep, It’s Six Feet Under

Milton’s “Paradise Lost” begins the scene of the fall with an image of Satan standing at the sidelines and looking jealously at God’s new creations, Adam and Eve.  Satan is incensed at the love that God shows these creatures, and moreso, the love they have for each other, as they are “emparadised in one another’s …

July 29, 2009 – 3:16 PM | By joshua | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Jürgen Habermas on the Trinity

Remonstrans recently linked to a nonsensical post about the trinity by “naked pastor”.  Most detailed explanations of the trinity are sophist nonsense, and naked pastor is a real humdinger. Just last night, I read Jürgen Habermas in “The Dialectics of Secularization”, and came across another whopper of a theory: Without initially having any theological intention, …

July 19, 2009 – 7:18 PM | By joshua | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments (2)

Calvinism vs. Arminianism: The Real Beef

I’m now about halfway through Roger Olson’s excellent “Arminian Theology”.  As I suspected, many of the online criticisms against Arminianism are dishonest straw men that do not represent true Arminian theology.  This is no surprise, since the same dishonest tactics are used against Calvinism on the Internet, too. It turns out that the surface area …

July 11, 2009 – 11:20 AM | By joshua | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (6)

Buddha Congratulates Calvin on 500 Years

We’ve recently wrapped up family visits in Toronto, Port Huron, and Princeton, and now relaxing near the beach in Pawcatuck, Connecticut.  In honor of John Calvin’s 500th birthday, my wife took this picture of a former Presbyterian church we drove past in London, Ontario.  The cement plaque in the side of the wall says that …

July 10, 2009 – 7:52 AM | By joshua | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)