by Joshua Shaw Lewis’ re-imagination and revitalisation of the pagan experience in Till We Have Faces and the rants of the early Apologists appear at first opposed. The one presents the gods of ancient religion from the inside, while the other presents them from the side of Christ’s triumph A.D., that is, ‘in the year… Read More “Destroy these very Books”: Eusebius on the Pagan Threat (I)
by Joshua Shaw In the beginning of Pascal’s Pensées, Part I, Chapter I (online here), there is the famous distinction between those subjects whose material is contained entirely in books, and so dependent entirely upon authority, and those subjects whose material (the corporeal world) is dependent upon sense perception (i.e., experience) and reason (paraphrasing the… Read More Pascal and Bavinck on Science and Theology
by Jonathan Tomes We observed a few weeks ago that, for Franciscus Junius, a Reformed Orthodox scholastic and humanist, supernatural grace elevates nature, perfecting nature beyond its natural capacities, even from the beginning. Such seemed an appropriate beginning, as this is a sometimes controverted point between Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians, even from the early… Read More Natural Theology in Reformed Orthodoxy (or Dangerous Junius)