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January 2006

January 04, 2006
The architectural model of building a structure of thought on “foundations” is among the metaphors...
January 04, 2006
“Postmodernity,” writes Zygmunt Bauman in his 1992 Intimations of Postmodernity , “means many different things...
January 04, 2006
Franz Rosenzweig saw that philosophy proceeds only through humility, which means through speech and dialogue...
January 04, 2006
Thanks to my friend Alex Trochez for stimulating the following line of thought. According to...
January 04, 2006
Solomon pursued knowledge and wisdom, and concluded that the pursuit was no more than vapor...
January 02, 2006
John Thackara ‘s In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World , a brief for...
January 02, 2006
Solomon captures the aporia of beginnings in Ecclesiastes 3:15: “That which is has been already,...
January 02, 2006
INTRODUCTION Solomon begins Ecclesiastes talking about the regularities of the natural world (1:3-11), and in...
January 02, 2006
Provan has this insightful comment: “A central theme of [Jesus’] ministry, enacted in his own...
January 02, 2006
Despite the problems with his arguments about authorship, Provan ‘s commentary on Ecclesiastes (NIV Application)...
January 01, 2006
God is unchanging. The calendar changes, but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and...
January 01, 2006
The style industry exists to keep producing new styles, to keep everyone thinking that they...
January 01, 2006
Ecclesiastes 2:24-25: There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and...

December 2005

December 31, 2005
Iain Provan doubts that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes . One of the “striking” bits of evidence...
December 31, 2005
Iain Provan doubts that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes . One of the “striking” bits of evidence...
December 31, 2005
More thoughts on Ecclesiastes, stealing, as always, from James Jordan . The image of “shepherding...
December 30, 2005
Some additional thoughts about the role of the “remnant” in Israel’s history, which supercede earlier...
December 29, 2005
Christopher Dawson, who died in 1970, was one of the leading historians of the twentieth...
December 29, 2005
As if anyone cares, here are some unfinished and amateurish comments on “what I think...
December 29, 2005
Somewhere in his blog discussion of Brian McLaren’s Generous Orthodoxy , Doug Wilson indicated that...
December 28, 2005
Stanford’s Carl N. Degler’s In Search of Human Nature tells the story of the contest...
December 28, 2005
One of the many ironies of contemporary political discourse is the co-option of Malthus by...
December 28, 2005
Christian apologetics tends to focus on ethical or rational arguments. Questions such as “Can we...
December 27, 2005
A number of years ago, Stanley Jaki, a Roman Catholic historian of science, published an...
December 27, 2005
Much of the following is borrowed from James Jordan’s lectures on Ecclesiastes given at the...
December 27, 2005
In Ecclesiastes, Solomon offers intriguing, somewhat paradoxical reflections on the problems of change and permanence....
December 25, 2005
John 3:16: God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that...
December 25, 2005
As Pastor Wilson will remind us in the sermon this morning, the Christmas gospel announces...
December 24, 2005
Here is a selection of a 1530 Christmas Sermon by Martin Luther. You have heard...
December 23, 2005
In his essay, “White Mythology,” Derrida offers this critical discussion of Aristotle: “This is the...
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