I’ve had Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh’s Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement sitting on my bookshelf since early fall, but haven’t gotten around to cracking it until now. If the rest of the book is as good as the two paragraphs below, I’ll be kicking myself for waiting so long:
Displacement. To be […]
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As promised, here’s the question and answer session which followed my thesis reading. Various students and faculty members asked me a variety of questions.
Thesis Question & Answer
Feel free to chime in with any of your questions.
Next up should be a chronicling of my post-grad trip to NYC.
If anyone is still reading this blog, I plan on beginning to write on here again. Expect posts related to my just-completed B.A. Honours thesis called A Restless Faith Seeking Reason to kick off catch-up-with-Matt’s-life mode here. Let’s begin with this audio file of my thesis presentation.
The full and very descriptive title of my thesis is […]
In my current philosophical wanderings through the thicket of faith and reason, I’m starting to see some themes emerge. The following is a gross over-simplification, but it may serve as a helpful theological lens through which to view the postmodern turn in philosophy.
The modern (Enlightenment) view of reason ignored the category of sin. The belief was […]
One of my favorite fantasy authors, Robert Jordan, has passed away after a battle with the rare blood disease amyloidosis. His real name was James Oliver Rigney, Jr., and his dates are now October 17, 1948 - September 16, 2007.
Jordan’s books were a real postmodern hodge-podge of various metaphysical and spiritual streams all rolled into one, […]
Many people pose faith and reason as opposites. You can have one or the other, but not both. They think like this: faith is non-rational and sets limits on the terrain that reason can explore, stifling it. Reason, on the other hand, promotes a blanket skepticism that is inherently hostile to (unthinking) faith.
I think that the […]
