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Loving our Atheist Neighbors with Truth and Love: Rick Mattson at Urbana

January 18, 2016 by May Yuan Leave a Comment

How should Christians approach conversations about faith with  atheists? At the Urbana Student Missions Conference, Rick Mattson examined common atheist arguments and argued for  a holistic Christian response that includes intellect, care-giving, and friendship. From Dec 27 - Jan 1, volunteers with our network of early career Christian academics are liveblogging seminars at the Urbana conference, a mission-focused student gathering of 16,000 Christians from across North America and the world. This post was co-written … [Read more...] about Loving our Atheist Neighbors with Truth and Love: Rick Mattson at Urbana

Filed Under: Urbana2015 Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, dialogue, evangelism, Faith is Like Skydiving, intervarsity press, liveblogging, Love, Love Your Atheist Neighbor series, modernism, postmodernism, Rick Mattson, truth, urbana, urbana seminar, urbana15

Hope according to Wright and Thiel

August 24, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Mlu7sHEHE As some of you may have picked up from the Emerging Scholars Network Facebook Wall,  What is the Hope for Humanity? A discussion of technology, politics, and theology  (1:26:47) has been receiving my attention this weekend. What is the Hope for Humanity?  is a  Veritas Forum featuring theologian N.T. Wright and Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal). I offer their dialogue and our own interactions with it as a helpful tool in considering/reflecting upon the source of  "our hope" … [Read more...] about Hope according to Wright and Thiel

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Derek Schuurman, hope, humanity, modernism, n. t. wright, optimism, Paypal, Peter Thiel, postmodernism, Shaping a Digital World

Why You Must Be Dying to be a Christian Scholar (Wrap Up)

August 22, 2013 by David Williams 12 Comments

Following his move to The Big Apple to serve with InterVasity's Graduate & Faculty Ministry at NYU this fall, David is back to wrap up his series on  Why You Must Be Dying to be a Christian Scholar. For earlier posts in the series click here and here. Take it away David! ~ Thomas B. Grosh IV, Associate Director of  ESN, editor of ESN's  blog  and  Facebook Wall ----------- 4.   We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses.   In his lucid (though acerbic) book, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its … [Read more...] about Why You Must Be Dying to be a Christian Scholar (Wrap Up)

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: biblical studies, Evangelicalism, exile, faith and scholarship, mind, modernism, Scripture, theology, Westminster Seminary

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