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James Baird/March 11, 2015
Intuition in Contemporary Philosophy
In this short essay, I want to draw out the nature and downfalls of a salient principle of analytic philosophy: the primacy of rational intuition. Philosophers think of rational intuition …
Jeffrey A. Stivason/March 9, 2015
Will the Real Bonhoeffer Please Stand Up? Part 5
Speaking theologically, what was Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Was he a German liberal or might we label him a conservative evangelical Christian? Bonhoeffer’s use of Kantian Transcendentalism as a theological beginning point …
Jeffrey A. Stivason/March 1, 2015
Will the Real Bonhoeffer Please Stand Up? Part 4
Having begun with Kant’s concept of the transcendental unity of apperception in order to establish God’s immanence Bonhoeffer was brought up against a potential philosophical problem. Kant’s Transcendentalism had a …
James J. Cassidy/February 25, 2015
Bavinck and Barth on Revelation
Bavinck in the first volume of his Reformed Dogmatics is very clear about revelation becoming nature. God reveals himself in, by, and with nature. Bavinck is clear that revelation is …
Jeffrey A. Stivason/February 24, 2015
The Need to Remember Warfield
On December 24, 1920 Benjamin B. Warfield fell ill after being struck with angina pectoris. He died on February 16, 1921. Why should we pause to remember a Princeton theologian who …
Camden M. Bucey/February 24, 2015
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Consciousness and personality are perennial topics of conversation among philosophers. But that doesn’t mean they’re topics only for the academy. These subjects touch each of us deeply, because they are at the very …
Jeffrey A. Stivason/February 22, 2015
Will the Real Bonhoeffer Please Stand Up? Part 3
Kant’s Copernican Revolution might have been better described as a theological warhead aimed directly at theology. The immediate epistemological carnage caused by Kantian Transcendentalism can be witnessed initially in Schleiermacher’s …
Jason Pickard/February 18, 2015
The Omnipresent God
The Holy Scriptures proclaim that heaven and earth cannot contain God (1 Kings 8:27), but he also fills heaven and earth with his presence (Jer 23:23–24). Acts 17:28 even says …
James Baird/February 16, 2015
Van Til’s Concrete Universal
Laurence O’Donnell, III, a Cornelius Van Til scholar and critic, has labeled Van Til’s trinitarian theology “idiosyncratic.” He made this remark with respect to Van Til’s conception of the trinity as …
Jeffrey A. Stivason/February 15, 2015
Will the Real Bonhoeffer Please Stand Up? Part 2
In our last post we concluded that juxtaposing Bonhoeffer against himself might not be the most useful way to determine whether the man was a pietistic evangelical or a German …
Jeffrey A. Stivason/February 12, 2015
Wright Wrong on Adam
In March Intervarsity Press plans to release a book by John Walton with a contribution from N. T. Wright titled, The Lost World of Adam and Eve. Wright’s excursus follows …
James J. Cassidy/February 10, 2015
Defending Obama
President Obama may some day, if not already, rue the day he compared the Crusades to the current terror tactics of ISIS. But, was his comparison completely off-based? Several well-circulated …
Jeffrey A. Stivason/February 8, 2015
Will the Real Bonhoeffer Please Stand Up? Part 1
Within a year of my profession of faith I came into contact with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The owner of the local Christian bookstore gave me a copy of The Cost of …
Camden M. Bucey/February 6, 2015
Principles of True Worship
In his book Worship Reformed According to Scripture, Hughes Oliphant Old orients Christian worship toward the right end using the proper means. This is a significant undertaking indeed, because sadly, …
Camden M. Bucey/February 4, 2015
Books in the Queue, Guilty Conscience Edition
I have a bad habit of acquiring books faster than I’m able to read them. I’m sure many of Reformed Forum’s readers can sympathize. My bibliophile friends tell me this isn’t …
