Theology That Bites Back
Every sin that can be committed is traceable back to pride. Boil all the sinful meat off, and what you have left are the bones of pride. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For …
“Another law professor, the radical feminist Catharine MacKinnon, summed up a different aspect of the current situation when she declared that feminism’s ‘critique of the objective standpoint as male is a critique of science as a specifically male approach to knowledge. With it re reject male criteria for verification'” (Tenured Radicals, p. xii).
“The Christian faith is not a condiment to be used to flavor the neutral substance of secular knowledge. Paul tells ust hat every thought is to be made captive to Christ (2 Cor. 10: 1-4). Christ says that anyone who does not gather with Him is scattering (Matt. 12:30). The Christian faith does very poorly …
“Movies are fantasies, but a nation’s fantasies are also statements about itself.” [E. Christian Kopff, The Devil Knows Latin (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 1999), p. 223]
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Oh, how I hate all vanity Because I love Your law. You are my shield and hiding place; I hope and trust in Your right Word, I give myself to all Your ways. Depart from me, you evil ones, For I will …
One time a young boy came to his mother with a question that was troubling him. He had an acquaintance at school who was trying to make friends with him, and he was not at all sure about it. As it turned out, his suspicions were quite correct, but the problem was that he could …
Idolaters are hungry, and idolaters have the kind of hunger that cannot be filled. The prophet Isaiah says it this way: “The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh …
I have the privilege of attending many commencement ceremonies, and they are not the kind that make you despair of western civilization. A week or so ago, we had the delight of seeing the next NSA class go out to make a dent in the world. “Make a big one!” is the substance of their …
Envy is a difficult sin for us to address in the modern era because in many cases we have sought to make it into a virtue. Jesus told about the workers hired at different times of the day to make a spiritual point directed at envy(Matt. 20:1-16); we take the side of the workers who …
“Respect for rationality and the rights of the individual; a commitment to the ideals of disinterested criticism and color-blind justice; advancement according to merit, not according to sex, race, or ethnic origin: these quintessentially Western ideas are bedrocks of our political as well as our educational system. And they are precisely the ideas that are …
