Index of Topics
For me, forming a conclusion on a topic is a bit like building a house.
First I have some general ideas and musings. Sometimes I just sit and write a poem or two while contemplating the best location to begin. Then I begin digging the soil and questioning my presuppositions. I pour some tentative foundations and begin setting up a structure. Sometime along the way opposition usually comes, and in the midst of the wind and rain of (usually polite) dialogue, the walls windows and roof of my convictions begin to come together. If there is time, I begin testing out and living within my beliefs. This has lead either to further trust, or (in a few cases) to completely distrust and deconstruct of my belief-system.
Sometimes I start over, sometimes I move in to stay.
For better or worse, most of my intellectual journey on a host of topics has been archived on my blog. Below is an index, which organizes posts under the major issues I have been wrestling with.
If you are in a hurry, or are only looking for solid information, I would recommend reading only the research papers, watching my sermons, and reading the later posts of the topics I have treated thoroughly. If you enjoy reading and want to walk along with me on the journey my thoughts have taken, I would invite you to read the posts chronologically, under the issues you are interested in.
You may also be interested in reading the “Personal Journey” section, which contains more personal posts, poems, prayers and musings from along the way.
Currently, I am only making posts after November 2009 available. I am compiling my posts before this time into an e-book which will be entitled “My Flirtation with Emergent.” I hope this will be available soon.
INDEX OF TOPICS
Abortion
Apologetics
Calvinism/Arminianism
Cessationism/Charismania
Church History
Church Fathers
Emergent
Environmentalism
Gender Roles (Egalitarian/Complementarian)
Hell & Eternity
Hermeneutics
Homosexuality
How My Faith Survived Seminary
Karl Barth
Liberalism
Masculinity/Becoming a Man
Modernity/Postmodernity
Pacifism
Personal Journey
Philosophy/Metaphysics
LINKS TO POSTS
ABORTION
(1 July 2010) Hate This Child
(9 Mar 2010) My Position On Abortion
APOLOGETICS
(10 Nov 2010) Augustine on “Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People”
(24 Oct 2010) A Discussion on Justice, Hell and the Moral Uprightness of God
(24 Oct 2010) Does God Have A Right To Judge?
(12 Oct 2010) How Could A Loving God Also Be Jealous?
(6 Oct 2010) Zeitgeist Debunked!
(30 Mar 2010) The Artificial Sterility of Naturalistic Atheism
(5 Feb 2010) Apologetics: The Traitor’s Art (A “Top-Ten” Post!)
BARTH
(20 Feb 2011) Still Awaiting a Barthian Response to Van Til
(18 Feb 2011) Barthian Ethics: He Can Negate – But Can He Mandate?
(18 Jan 2011) Barth in Conversation with a JW
(16 Jan 2011) Barth: Postmodern and Christian?
(16 Feb 2011) Barth: Ever Learning, Never Understanding?
(15 Jan 2010) Barth: Influenced, but not yet Convinced
(5 Jan 2011) My Barthian Breakdown
(3 Jan 2011) Barth Class
(1 Feb 2011) How Barth “Actualized Chalcedon”
(1 Jan 2011) Barth Quotes, with Interactions
(24 Dec 2010) Stubborn Theology
(17 Dec 2010) Barth: Theology of God
(7 Dec 2010) Questions for Barth on Scripture
(6 Dec 2010) Barth: Musings on “God Here and Now”
(4 Dec 2010) Barth: Goals for Class
(2 Dec 2010) Barth at the News-Stand
(24 Nov 2010) Barth: The Gospel in Moderation
(20 Nov 2010) Barthianism: Panacea, or Placebo?
(16 Nov 2010) Initial Musings on Barth
(23 Jan 2010) Questions for My Barthian Teacher
(7 July 2008) Pestering my Barthian Teacher
CALVINISM/ARMINIANISM
(10 Feb 2010) Eternal Security: Here We Go Again… : (
(2 Feb 2010) Bruxy’s Arminianism vs. Driscoll’s Calvinism…?
CESSATIONISM/CHARISMANIA
(14 Sept 2010) Does God Speak To Us Today? (or, on listening prayer)
CHURCH HISTORY
(7 July 2010) Modernity and the Roots of Classical Liberalism (A “Top-Ten” post)
(7 July 2010) The Concise Definition of Christian Liberalism (A “Top-Ten” post)
(15 June 2010) The Man Who Wrote “Liberalism and Christianity” (A “Top-Ten” post)
(4 Feb 2010) A Brief History of Christian Doctrine
CHURCH FATHERS
(27 Sept 2010) An Inspiring Martyr Story
(23 Sept 2010) An Actual LETTER, Hand-Written by Jesus Himself?
(23 Sept 2010) A Beautiful Extra-Biblical Account of an Act of the Apostle John
(16 Aug 2010) Amazing Testimony of Early Christians
(14 Aug 2010) Insights from Ignatius
CREATION SCIENCE
(15 Feb 2011) Creation Science: Two Options
(5 Feb 2009) Creation Science: Are We Shooting Ourselves in the Foot?
ENVIRONMENTALISM
(7 April 2010) Christian Environmentalism (Resources)
(5 Jan 2009) “Environmentalism: Introducing two Strangers“
EMERGENT
See also “Liberalism”
(15 Nov 2010) What Comes First – Doctrine or Life? (A response to “Beyond Foundationalism” and “Velvet Elvis”) (A “Top-Thirty” post)
(15 Sept 2010) Review of Rob Bell’s “Velvet Elvis” (A “Top-Thirty” post)
(31 Aug 2010) Compass or Wind-Sock? (or) The Christian, Culture, and Truth
(12 Aug 2010) A Song Which Rob Bell Cannot Sing Along To
(10 Aug 2010) Emergent Posters
(27 July 2010) What is the Gospel? A Response to Liberalism and the Emergent Church (A “Top-Ten” post, containing my final position on Emergent)
(16 July 2010) Reflections on MacLaren’s “A New Kind of Christian”
(4 April 2010) Work Hard at Preaching and Teaching
(16 Feb 2010) “THE” Book To Read on Emergent
(3 Dec 2009) A Decision to Remain Undecided
(29 Nov 2009) Emergent: Monologue or Dialogue?
(28 Nov 2009) Follow-Up Post to “From….Emergent to….Conservative”
(22 Nov 2009) From “Cool Young Emergent Intellectual” to “Old-fashioned, Boring Old Conservative” (A “Top-Ten” post)
(Coming soon! My Flirtation with Emergent – an e-book compiling most of my posts from 2007-2008, highlighting my journey into and out of the Emergent movement)
GENDER ROLES
See also “Masculinity/Becoming a Man”
(21 Mar 2010) Real Woman Manifesto
(9 Mar 2010) Fighting Over the Pants, or the Crown of Thorns?
(28 Feb 2010) The Christian Gender Debate: Understanding the Four Perspectives (A “Top-Thirty post)
(8 Jan 2010) Follow-up Post to “Leadership and Submission in the Home” (A “Top-Thirty” post)
(11 Dec 2009) Leadership and Submission in the Home (A “Top-Ten” post)
HELL & ETERNITY
(30 Oct 2010) I am Coming, Cawed the Raven
(12 Oct 2010) How Could A Loving God Also Be Jealous?
(10 Aug 2010) Reconsidering the Afterlife
(9 April 2010) Bruxy On The Afterlife
(4 April 2010) Piper: “Behold now the…severity of God!”
(12 Dec 2009) Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
HERMENEUTICS
(18 May 2010) The “Magic Wand of Scholarly Consensus” in Hermeneutics
(7 May 2010) The Perspicuity of Scriptures
(15 Mar 2010) The Absurdity of Originality
HOMOSEXUALITY
(10 Oct 2010) What Do Homosexuality, Women in the Church & Home, Fornication, Divorce & Remarriage, Emergent & Hell All Have In Common?
(3 Oct 2010) The Campolos on Homosexuality
(23 Sept 2010) Reflections on the Interview, where Jennifer Knapp “Comes out of the closet”
(21 Sept 2010) Sin Lists and Why We (Should) Love Them
(28 Aug 2010) The “Homosexuality Issue” as a Litmus-Test of Orthodoxy
HOW MY FAITH SURVIVED SEMINARY
(7 July 2010) Modernity and the Roots of Classical Liberalism (A “Top-Ten” post)
(7 July 2010) The Concise Definition of Christian Liberalism (A “Top-Ten” post)
(15 June 2010) The Man Who Wrote “Liberalism and Christianity” (A “Top-Ten” post)
(27 Mar 2010) Machen: The Morpheus to My Neo?
(18 May 2010) The “Magic Wand of Scholarly Consensus” in Hermeneutics
(3 Feb 2010) Whose Thoughts are in my Head?
(25 Dec 2010) Frustration at Christian Academia
(21 Dec 2010) A Wise Shepherd of a Wandering Mind
(21 Dec 2010) The Seas of Confusion
(2 Nov 2009) Taking My Education Into My Own Hands
LIBERALISM
(13 July 2010) What is Liberalism? (A “Top-Ten” post)
(7 July 2010) Modernity and the Roots of Classical Liberalism (A “Top-Ten” post)
(7 July 2010) The Concise Definition of Christian Liberalism
(15 June 2010) The Man Who Wrote “Liberalism and Christianity” (A “Top-Ten” post)
(27 Mar 2010) Machen: The Morpheus to My Neo?
MASCULINITY/BECOMING A MAN
(20 Mar 2010) Driscoll on Parenting Daughters
(19 Feb 2010) A Marriage Pre-Requisite Sermon
( 30 Nov 2009) The Peter Pan Syndrome
MODERNITY/POSTMODERNITY
(12 July 2010) The Myth of Postmodernity
(7 July 2010) Modernity and the Roots of Classical Liberalism
(15 June 2010) The Man Who Wrote “Liberalism and Christianity”
(5 May 2010) Deconstructing the Modern Man Part 2: Immanuel Kant
(20 April 2010) Deconstructing the Modern Man, Part 1: The Enlightenment
PACIFISM
(23 Sept 2010) An Inconsistency in John Piper’s treatment of Matt. 5
(24 Aug 2010) Erasmus’ Complaint of Peace
(16 Aug 2010) Amazing Testimony of Early Christians
(15 Aug 2010) How Pacifism Provides an Answer to The Most Difficult Passage in the Bible (Psalm 137:9)
(14 Aug 2010) Pacifism & Church History
(14 Aug 2010) (Pacifism) Disturbing Youtube Vid
(14 Aug 2010) Listen to Bruxy, then Let’s Talk About Pacifism
(31 July 2010) Pacifism: A Hypothetical Scenario
(12 Nov 2009) Notes on Pacifism
(3 Jun 2009) The Politics of St. Augustine (research paper)
(11 Nov 2008) Remembrance Day Post
(10 Nov 2008) Pacifism Part 2: Pro-Pacifism
(12 Oct 2008) A Letter to Bruxy Cavey on Pacifism
PARENTING
(1 July 2010) Hate This Child
(20 May 2010) Finding the Humour in Rage
(20 Mar 2010) Driscoll on Parenting Daughters
PERSONAL JOURNEY
See also “Emergent” and “How my Faith Survived Seminary”
(31 Oct 2010) Conversatin with the Chief Shepherd
(24 Sept 2010) Lunky The Ox
(25 Aug 2010) My Peace I Give You
(16 Aug 2010) Worship in Unworthiness
(28 July 2010) The Theologian’s Prayer
(19 May 2010) Verse of the Day
(12 May 2010) Humility Sabbatical
(15 Mar 2010) The Absurdity of Originality
(22 Feb 2010) Boldness from Compassion, Not Indifference
(12 Feb 2010) Seven Years in Arabia (About the Author)
PHILOSOPHY/METAPHYSICS
See also “Theology Proper”
(12 July 2010) The Myth of Postmodernity
(15 Mar 2010) The Absurdity of Originality
(3 Feb 2010) Whose Thoughts are in my Head?
