By jaminhubner on Apr 15, 2010 in American Evangelicalism, Reformed Theology | Comments Off
“As a loving God, God wants as many people as possible to be freely saved and as few as possible to be lost. His goal, then, is to achieve an optimal balance between these, to create no more of the lost than are necessary to attain a certain number of the saved. It is possible [...]
By jaminhubner on Dec 27, 2009 in Apologetic Methodology, Theology | Comments Off
When evidential/classical apologetics is forced to deal with its faulty presuppositions, the results can often be startling. Teachings that were once easy to embrace, speak, and write about become objects of sacrifice when faced with the hard questions of skeptics. Indeed, with the wrong method, even the greatest minds crumble. Such is the case with [...]
By jaminhubner on Dec 16, 2009 in Philosophy | Comments Off
I was re-reading one of my top 5 favorite books of all-time, which happens to be (I argue) Van Til’s most important (and less popular) work, when I came across a brief treatment of middle-knowledge. Since the subject of molinism has taken the evangelical world of apologetics by storm, it would be more than appropriate [...]
By jaminhubner on Dec 13, 2009 in Apologetic Methodology | Comments Off
I was surprised when a friend linked me up to an apologetics podcast provided by Charles Self of Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. I know. Perhaps I should give more grace to certain branches of the institutional church and to my brothers and sisters in Christ. But my experience has been similar to the experiences [...]
By jaminhubner on Oct 14, 2009 in Seminary and Academic Politics | Comments Off
It was recently announced that GK Beale, Chair of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College, is heading off to Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, PA. Beale is currently the Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. He earned his MA in History from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, and Ph.D from Cambridge in [...]