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Philosophy

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    • 2 Peter 1:1-11

The Character of Virtue

The first part of a brief consideration of virtue in scripture
  • rah
  • January 17, 2025
Put simply, Peter’s description in 2 Peter 1:3-8 makes for a traceable account of the Christian life. It helps us understand how faith remains an enduring feature of the Christian identity, just as it was prerequisite to the woman’s health in Luke 8:43-46. Faith is highlighted—not merely for the fact that faith is commanded to men, but for reason that only faith may take account of God’s ongoing work.
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Smashing the Kingdom of Jove

Charles Norris Cochrane’s summary of Augustine’s critique: In misapprehending God’s kingdom, man misappropriates power
  • rah
  • September 6, 2024
"[T]he error of Classicism may be summarily described as a failure to identify the true source of power and, therewith, its true character and conditions."
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The Dharmaśāstras: The Reordering of the World, One More Time

The emergence of the Hindu Dharmaśāstra texts in India as polemical rhetoric
  • rah
  • July 26, 2024
To say, as the Dharmaśāstras do, that some people know dharma is to also say that others do not. There is, then, not only a stated purpose to the Dharmaśāstras, but one that is set in a telling awareness of disagreement and debate.
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Religion is Contemplated in God’s Gift of Redemption

A Selection taken from Herman Bavinck’s The Wonderful Works of God
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  • June 15, 2022
"Without special revelation the religion of men and the philosophy of thinkers do not have a right knowledge of God, and hence no right knowledge of man and the world, and of sin and redemption."
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