BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

Review: Why Do We Baptize Infants?

Why Do We Baptize Infants? by Bryan Chapell My rating: 2 of 5 stars A Baptist can't give three stars to a book, even a good one, arguing for infant baptism. But if all I were evaluating was clarity and brevity, Chapell might actually get four stars. His thesis is simple: "We baptize infants because we believe that the Bible teaches us to do so." (5) Chapell begins by explaining the "covenant of faith" (20) God made with Abraham and arguing for its continuing validity: A key concept in the New...

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[John] Milbank’s fundamental double claim: first, that if God is who Christians say he is and if he has done what Christians say he has done, then theology, the science of God, presents the “metanarrative” of history, the organizing logic of all knowledge, with the right and responsibility to intervene to correct all other sciences; and, second, that modern theology has steadily ceded its terrain to secular thought, so that instead of positioning other sciences theology has been positioned by them and rendered itself superfluous.

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Black Friday Deal for Bloggers

I use the Standard theme for my blog (as do Brian Collins and Andy Naselli, FWIW). It’s very well done. I ponied up $100 for the Support License so I could install it on other people’s sites. But till Monday, that license is only $69.30. And the basic, one-site license (all most bloggers would need) is $34.30. I highly recommend Standard. Here are some benefits: Clean design Extremely, OCD-level, careful coding (nice to know it’s there even if you never touch it) Useful post types Easy ads...

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