Does aesthetic experience point us to God? Read more…
Developing your Mind for God’s Global Mission: Greg Jao at Urbana 2015
Global poverty, inter-faith engagement, church planting: what do these require besides a prayerful spirit, a willing heart, and an available body? Greg Jao answers his Urbana15 seminar, Developing your Mind for God’s Global Mission.Read more…
Book Review: Apologetics Beyond Reason
Apologetics Beyond Reason, by James W. Sire. This book maps a different apologetic approach from most rational apologetics, arguing for “signals of transcendence” throughout creation and in literature that point us to God, if we will see this.Read more…
Nature as a Christian Apologetic: The Open Secret
Introduction In previous blogs, we’ve seen that God reveals himself to man through nature and through scripture and we’ve been addressing questions about how man’s interpretations of these revelations can be reconciled. In the next two blogs we are goingRead more…
Is a Tenure-Track Job a Futile Dream?
Probably. Last week, I addressed the question of whether graduate school was a path to certain doom. In the comments of that post, John questioned my use of statistics to show that people with Ph.D.s had relatively good job prospectsRead more…
Our Top Posts of 2012
Thank you for making 2012 a great year for the Emerging Scholars Blog! Among our posts published last year, our top 10 most read posts includes a typical mix of advice for graduate school, spiritual formation, and, well, aliens: Nicholas Wolterstorff:Read more…
Reading Pagans (and Christians) with Charity
Two weeks ago, James Sire addressed a question from me about learning from artists and writers who have a different world view than my own. In his response, he mentioned Alan Jacobs’s A Theology of Reading, which I have beenRead more…
What comes after Postmodernism?
A question from friends at Evangelical Seminary: What comes after Postmodernism? What does James W. Sire have to offer in response to the $64 Question — now by inflation the $64 Million Dollar Question? ————————- This question is easy for me to answer.Read more…
Insights from works by people from other worldviews?
James W. Sire addresses another excellent question from Micheal Hickerson, ESN Blog Contributor: Should Christians worry if they find themselves enjoying or gaining insight from artistic, literary or academic works by people from other worldviews? I know that this has beenRead more…
Does worldview theory lead to relativism?
James W. Sire addresses another excellent question from Micheal Hickerson, ESN Blog Contributor: Is there a danger that acknowledging different worldviews will lead to the position that “all truth is relative”? Yes and No. Yes. If in fact there are differentRead more…
What is the biggest challenge to today’s apologist?
James W. Sire addresses: What is the biggest challenge to today’s apologist? — A question received by email inquiry. I doubt that there is a “today’s apologist.” Every person engaged in presenting the Christian faith is “today’s apologist.” Moreover, IRead more…
Jim Sire on “Finding common ground with someone radically different.” Part II
James W. Sire digs deeper into Micheal Hickerson‘s Worldview question: How can we find common ground when someone has a radically different worldview from our own? In the previous blog post, I argued that as Christians we know that weRead more…
Jim Sire on “Finding common ground with someone radically different”
The Worldview Question-and-Answer series with Jim Sire continues with the question: How can we find common ground when someone has a radically different world view from our own? — Micheal Hickerson, ESN Blog Contributor James W. Sire’s response: As aRead more…
What keeps Jim Sire believing?
What keeps me believing, what holds my faith, is not the way I understand Scripture, but the fantastic way Scripture explains me to myself. I am particularly struck by the way Jesus, who amazes me every time I think ofRead more…
Jim Sire addresses: “Is there still a place for propositional logic in apologetics or worldview studies?”
Last week, the Emerging Scholars Network began a James W. Sire Worldview Question-and-Answer series with Is Atheism a Worldview? As I have considered the development of Sire’s thought on worldview, I continue to be struck by the importance of lifeRead more…
Jim Sire: Excerpt from “Rim of the Sandhills”
Yesterday, the Emerging Scholars Network kicked off a Worldview Question-and-Answer series withJames W. Sire.* As I have considered the development of Sire’s thought on worldview, I have come to even more deeply embrace the importance of how one’s life story is understoodRead more…
Jim Sire Addresses: Is Atheism a Worldview?
I’ve had the privilege of knowing James W. Sire, Ph.D., since my college days. Sire served as a senior editor at InterVarsity Press and authored a number of books published by InterVarsity Press including The Universe Next Door: A Basic WorldviewRead more…