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Finding Oneself Beyond the Empirical Fence
But wouldn’t everybody act more or less the same if there were no religion and instead most of the same rules were held on a purely secular basis?
Nicholas Zahorodny | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013
A Response to Ross Douthat’s Bad Religion
Adopting C.S. Lewis’ concept of love’s responsibility, Ross Douthat harshly criticizes American Christianity in hopes of encouraging a stronger future.
Elena Zinski | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012January 2014
Jesus: The End of Personal Autonomy and Identity?
Indeed, it appears that at its best, Christianity has severely restrictive, and often arbitrary, rules that limit one’s ability to do as one wants.
Matthew Johnson | The Yale Logos |
Abundant Life, Abundant Love, and the Empty Tomb
At the empty tomb, I want to ask the same two questions as at the Cross - why is it necessary, and why is it possible?
Nathan Scalise | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013December 2013
November 2013
Yahweh: God Unbounded
While we must remember Schrödinger’s lesson—God’s true essence is never changed by our classifications—we must also be wary of how our misconceptions of God may restrict how we experience him in our lives.
Amira Athanasios | The Claremont Ekklesia | Fall 2013
A Response to Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason
Thomas Paine, a famed Revolutionary political activist and Founding Father, is also remembered for his attempts to expose Christianity as a fraud in his pamphlet Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology.
Suiwen Liang | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012August 2013
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Can We Talk? America’s Troubled Science and Religion Conversation
How is it that ‘science' is allowed to toss its historical baggage, but religion must forever be defined by the ancient baggage carried by its least informed?
Karl Giberson | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2012
Wisdom in the Inward Parts
For a long time, I never strayed into discussions about the relation between science and religion; however, ten years ago, I found myself in a position where I had to say something.
Professor John Huth | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2012August 2012
Is Anything Worth Believing In? A Review of a Conversation with John Lennox
God could have easily made a universe in which bad things didn’t happen. However, Lennox argues that “the one thing you will not get in an automated, robotic, computerized universe is love, relationship, and so on... In order to have the possibility of love or relationship, you must create the possibility of choice.”
Sarah Banks | The UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 01, Spring 2012
A Review of The Meaning of Life: A Short Introduction
Perhaps we are making the false assumption that the question, “what is the meaning of life?” can have an answer like “what is the meaning of the word ‘apple’?” does. What do we really mean when we ask, “what is the meaning of life?”
Kelly Maeshiro | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 2011
God, Unifier of Mathematical Truths
It is peculiar enough that Christianity was once considered the more elegant worldview, and from this worldview came the rise of modern mathematics.
Willis Zhang | UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 1, Spring 2012
Sacramental Complications: Sufjan Stevens’ “Casimir Pulaski Day”
Sufjan Stevens is adored by the indie music movement, which is often antiestablishment and anti-religious, yet his music honestly handles the grittiness of lived faith. “Casimir Pulaski Day” is the firsthand narration of the death of a loved one within a Christian community.
Tristan Macdonald | 5 College Slant | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2012
Reflections on the Nature of Faith
Faith is unscientific (not anti-scientific) in the sense that much of the knowledge claimed by faith is beyond the scope of scientific inquiry. Christian faith seeks to obtain knowledge in the context of love and trust, not to function as a substitute for reason.
Henry Waller | Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2012, Volume 6, Issue 2
The Incarnation
Christianity doesn’t preach a distant God who turned a blind eye to mankind, but rather tells of a God who became a man himself. God didn’t simply send a message; He became the messenger. We recall this momentous occasion – the divine incarnation – each year at Christmas.
Jordan Monge | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 2011
The Marriage of Justice and Mercy
Christianity has seeming contradictions like a dog has fleas. This one consistently arises: how can a God of justice be, at the same time, a God of mercy? George MacDonald brings this contradiction to a point: “Those who say justice means the punishing of sin, and mercy the not punishing of sin, and attribute both to God, would make a schism in the very idea of God.”
Andrew Kim | Brown Cornerstone | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2012
