by Mark Farnham | Nov 10, 2010 | Christian Thinkers, The Church
As always, Carl Trueman is spot-on in this critique of ecumenical declarations. Here are excerpts of his essay: Thomas Jefferson was no orthodox Christian but I have a deep suspicion that he should take significant responsibility for one of the greatest myths that...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 9, 2010 | Apologetics, Culture, Philosophy
The French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the poster child for postmodernism, probably thought he was clever when he refused to call himself a postmodernist. He preferred to call himself a man of the Enlightenment, albeit a new Enlightenment, one that was enlightened...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 8, 2010 | Christian Thinkers, Christology, Theology
The Glory of the Cross is understood when we see that the impaled and immolated Christ is not simply a helpless victim, rather that the Cross was the instrument by which our Lord wielded his Almightiness, through the Eternal Spirit, as the weapon of his warfare so...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 5, 2010 | Christian Thinkers, Leadership, Pastoral Ministry, Theology
Teaching in a theological climate is a very lonely and sometimes daunting enterprise. Even with the most absorbed and friendly class, you are all alone there in front. What you say will inevitably be passed on—sometimes garbled and distorted. When you read the exams...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 3, 2010 | Christian Thinkers, Philosophy, Theology
What sort of freak then is man? How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious, judge of all things, feeble earth worm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe. Blaise Pascal, 17th century...
