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Faith and Reason Series Part 8: Eleonore Stump

December 15, 2019 by Mark Hansard No Comments

ESN Author Mark Hansard continues his series on faith and reason with an exploration of the problem of evil in the work of contemporary philosopher Eleonore Stump. For the rest of Mark’s series, click here.  Eleonore Stump’s book Wandering in Darkness[1]is a unique contribution to the literature on the problem of evil.[2] Stump holds the […]

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Christian philosopher, Eleonore Stump, faith and reason, faith and reason series, philosophy

Science Corner: Talking The Matrix with Mike Beidler (Pt 1)

November 13, 2019 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Photo of Cornel West in character in The Matrix

Welcome back to the Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! We took a little hiatus, but we’re back to our conversations on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch along and join the conversation. This week’s film is another 20-year-old classic from 1999: The Matrix.

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Filed Under: Movie Reviews, Science and Faith Tagged With: Mike Beidler, philosophy, sci-fi film festival, science, science corner, The Matrix, transition

Book Review: A History of Western Philosophy and Theology

May 13, 2016 by Bob Trube 3 Comments

Summary: This is a survey and critique of the major philosophers and theologians of the West beginning with the Greek philosophers and early church fathers up to the present day, written from a reformed perspective.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: Book Review, Cornelius van Til, culture, Esther Lightcap Meek, history, John M. Frame, philosophy, presuppositionalism, Reformed Theology

Book Response: Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?, by James K. A. Smith

March 10, 2016 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Truly the church is an apologetic in which one is renewed and transformed by God as part of a people living in a disciplined, liturgical community (28-30, 25, 99) across particular times and places to interact with “the lens of an interpretive framework governed by ultimate beliefs” through the Scriptures by the sanctification of the Spirit (54-56).

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christian Thought and Practice, Ministry to Emerging Generations Tagged With: Book Review, Christian Philosophy, Gordon-Conwell, james k a smith, ministry to emerging generations, ministry to emerging generations series, philosophy, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?

Movies are Signposts in a Strange Land

May 25, 2015 by Mark Eckel 2 Comments

May we point to the path, at times narrow and dark, but never without the Light.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Movie Reviews Tagged With: film, individualism, movies, philosophy, pragmatism, relativism, truth, When the Lights Go Down

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