Self-Incrimination

The requirement of independent confirmation is not waived simply because a person confesses to something. That independent confirmation may certainly be circumstantial, but authorities in any realm ought to be wary of simply accepting someone’s accusation against himself. Say that a man, wracked with guilt, confesses to a murder. He goes to the police and …

Credenda is no Deadenda

February 2006 Dear Friends of Credenda, We really are grateful for the financial support that you offer to our magazine. We are now entering our eighteenth year of publication, which helps to explain quite a number of things. This accounts for the adolescent sense of humor, as well as the fact that we don’t appear …

Sweeping or Sleeping

“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 76 “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute” (Prov. 12:24). Generalizations are just that, generalizations. But there is a God-given reason for advancing them nonetheless. Generalizations are still true. And, as a …

The Lewis and Clark of the Soul

“Lewis and Clark didn’t return from their trip and say, ‘Well, we didn’t find the Northwest Passage, but we did find ourselves.’ But that is the spirit of Bobo travel. Our travel dollars are investments in our own human capital. We don’t just want to see famous sights; we want to pierce into other cultures. …

A Situated Idahoan

In his fifth chapter, Grenz introduces us to the forerunner of postmodernism, to the voice crying in the wilderness — Fredrich Nietzsche. The philosophers of modernity (who bookended that age when rationalistic charismata were still being given to men) were Descartes and Kant (p. 84), and this gives us the approximate dates of 1650 to …