TOPIC INDEXReason (22)

  1. An Excerpt from What Can Really Know? by David Andersen

    book
    06/13/23
    16 mins
    By 1517 Staff
    This is an excerpt from chapter 9 of “What Can Really Know?: The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding” by David Andersen (1517 Publishing, 2023).

  2. Finding the Catholic Luther: A Review of Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith by Todd Hains

    book
    12/14/22
    12 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Hains offers a novel yet simple contention: Luther is most catholic where he is boldest.

  3. On Demystifying the Church

    book
    11/13/21
    12 mins
    By Kelsi Klembara
    The church is the only place God promises to lift us out of ourselves not in order to become more like God but so that we may finally be freed from our obsession with becoming little gods.

  4. John Locke, Reason, and Revelation

    book
    08/30/21
    10 mins
    By Roland Ehlke
    Despite his trust in empiricism, throughout his life, Locke never entirely let go of the inspired Scriptures—or perhaps more accurately, the Scriptures never let go of him.

  5. What the Radical Reformation Can Teach Us About Assurance

    book
    07/13/20
    16 mins
    By Kelsi Klembara
    By basing our assurance on the promises of God, which we not only hope for in the future but live in now, the Christian can finally rest in the comfort that they are both saved and not responsible for their own salvation.

  6. The Difference between Philosophy and Theology: Following in Luther's Footsteps

    book
    06/12/20
    12 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    The gospel does not proclaim the results of our practical reasoning about things we experience, but the horror of God crucified for our sins and at our hands.

  7. Rescuing religion from culture: Friedrich E.D. Schleiermacher and the origins of Liberal Theology

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    11/21/19
    20 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    If you want to boil Schleiermacher down to some foundation upon which to build up his theology, think feelings.

  8. How do you know they are "the One"? Part 1 of 2

    book
    08/26/19
    12 mins
    By Kelsi Klembara
    Biblically speaking, we won’t find much evidence for a preordained spouse.

  9. Blaise Pascal: Theologian of the Head and the Heart

    book
    06/19/19
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Perhaps best known for his “wager,” Pascal is often associated with this curious argument for the existence of God and eternal blessedness.

  10. Can Christianity and Science Coexist?

    book
    06/03/19
    17 mins
    By Kyle G. Jones
    In life, we make decisions, from the most basic to the most lasting, lacking specific knowledge about the outcome.

  11. The Mystery of a God Beyond All Comprehension

    book
    11/28/18
    12 mins
    By Bror Erickson
    Is a god fully understandable and explainable according to the finite logic and world we inhabit, is that a god one can trust and truly believe?

  12. The Belief Cure

    book
    09/25/18
    12 mins
    By Valerie Thur
    We try believing in more abstract concepts: justice, happiness, and self-improvement, only to find that we can never truly grasp which standards should be accepted and which should be rejected.
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