Jerry Coyne Vs. C.S. Lewis
Reductive materialist Jerry Coyne doesn't believe human choices are real. They are, he says, just matter and energy doing what they've always done. He thinks, however, that we should still “punish criminals,” that we should, in fact, remove them from society when they’re dangerous, reform them so they can rejoin us, and deter others from apeing bad behavior. But we shouldn’t imprison people as retribution—for making a ‘bad choice.’ One must in this case point out that C.S. Lewis was arguing...
Read moreWhatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods.
Love the Sin and Hate the Sinner
This is a great insight into a precious truth from Doug Wilson: Christians are accustomed to distinguish the sin from the sinner. This distinction is good and right, but it is only possible to make this distinction because of what Jesus did on the cross. It is possible for a man to be forgiven, which is to say, it is possible for a distinction to be made between that man and his sins. The man can now be taken in one direction, and his sins in another. He may be established on dry land, and his...
ESV Reader’s Bible, Six-Volume Set: A “New” Old Bible
This review originally appeared in the Christian Library Journal. It is used here by permission. The ESV Reader’s Bible, Six-Volume Set, published by Crossway (cloth over board with cardboard slipcase), is something old, something new, something different, and something blue green—if you get the beautiful cloth-over-board edition, which is what’s best for libraries. It’s old, because presenting text in a simple, beautiful, and typographically intelligible way is an old idea. It’s new, because...
Review: Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo My rating: 5 of 5 stars Nothing less than a tour-de-force. I'm tempted to say that only a religious person—particularly a Christian—could understand this almost certainly unbelieving politician and thinker. Guelzo finds a theme in Lincoln's theology that he, successfully in my opinion, traces throughout his life, namely a predestinarianism shorn of belief in God's personal goodness to Lincoln himself. This fatalistic theology guided...