by Mark Farnham | Aug 26, 2010 | Theology
Systematic theology and biblical theology have traditionally been conceived as somewhat disparate disciplines, constituting entirely different approaches to theology. Biblical theology is held by some to be somewhat suspect, since it originally arose among critics of...
by Mark Farnham | Aug 24, 2010 | Apologetics, Culture
My contention, however, is that the primary cause of most present conflicts in which the West is now engaged is not religion nor foreign policy, but culture. Culture is the radix of which the individual conflicts over specific aspects of Western policies are often...
by Mark Farnham | Aug 23, 2010 | Apologetics
A presupposition is not a belief that one must have before (temporally speaking) one comes to believe in other things; rather, it is a belief that is independent of some other knowledge and governs that knowledge to some extent. John Frame, Cornelius Van Til: An...
by Mark Farnham | Aug 20, 2010 | Apologetics, Atheism/Skepticism, Culture, Philosophy, Theology
As a result of Enlightenment thinkers, Christianity had become just a shadow of its former self. “This sea change in perspective unleashed tidal waves of destructive nihilism which Friedrich Nietzsche, in moments of philosophic lucidity, had prophesied as a result of...
by Mark Farnham | Aug 18, 2010 | Apologetics, Book Reviews, Culture, Missions, Philosophy
Where the old tolerance allowed hard differences on religionand morality to rub shoulders and compete freely in the public square, the new variety wishes to lock them all indoors as matters of private judgment; the public square must be given over to indistinctness....
