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“A PLATONIC PERSUASION IS REQUIRED”: ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD ON THE LAWS OF NATURE
“A PLATONIC PERSUASION IS REQUIRED”: ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD ON THE LAWS OF NATURE
apologetics, philosophy, scienceDan TateWhitehead, Alfred North Whitehead, Natural Law, physical law, physics, metaphysics, modern science, science, philosophy, Platonism, Plato, Adventures of Ideas, Process and Reality, Emergence, strong emergence, form, forms, Platonic forms, conventionalism, positivism, Kant, Immanuel Kant, Hume, David Hume, Newton, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematica Principia, Russel, Bertrand Russell, Russell, Bertrand Russel, description, positivist, mathematics, Deism, Deist, imposition, impositional laws, scientific theory, science vs religion, history of science, science versus religion, evolution, Darwin, Darwinism, Christianity and evolution, religion and evolution, new atheism, atheism, atheistComment
WHAT IS SIN? WHAT PAUL MEANS BY “THE LAW IN MY MEMBERS” (ON CONCUPISCENCE)
WHAT IS SIN? WHAT PAUL MEANS BY “THE LAW IN MY MEMBERS” (ON CONCUPISCENCE)
apologetics, Christian experience, Christian life, Paul, theologyDan TatePaul, sin, law, law in my members, despair, self-destruction, alcoholism, violence, hurt, cycles, cycles of hurt, passions, I do not do what I want, I do the thing I hate, What I do I hate, doctrine, Christian experience, morality, body, bodies, bodily pleasure, bodily pleasures, miss the mark, concupiscence, masochism, masochistic, disembodied state, agency, choice, will, free will, bound will, bondage of the will, extra guilt, American optimism, the human, Augustine, Adam, effects of sinComment
CHRISTIANITY AND THE AGE OF THE WORLDVIEW (PART 3 OF 3)
CHRISTIANITY AND THE AGE OF THE WORLDVIEW (PART 3 OF 3)
academia, apologetics, Christian experience, Christian freedom, Christian life, church, contemplative, Heidegger, history, Luther, Middle Ages, phenomenology, Reformation, religious studies, theologyDan TateLuther, Martin Luther, Heidegger, Martin Heidegger, Medieval, Middle Ages, worldview, worldviews, world picture, The Age of the World Picture, faith, tradition, gospel, canon, Scripture, Contemplation, Action, Contemplative life, active life, Levinas, Emmanuel Levinas, monergism, will, bound will, bondage of the will, predestination, Paul, salvation, elements, elements of faith, Trinity, Christology, Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Jarslov Pelikan, Pelikan, critical reverance, liberation, Christ, Christiantiy, Christian freedom, Jesus, God, Love, gracious, graciousness, kindness, chruch, church, prayer, presence, ascent, descent, preaching, ChristianComment
CHRISTIANITY AND THE AGE OF THE WORLDVIEW (PART 2)
CHRISTIANITY AND THE AGE OF THE WORLDVIEW (PART 2)
apologetics, Biblical studies, Christian experience, Christian life, church, phenomenology, philosophy, philosophy of religion, theology, Middle Ages, Reformation, Heidegger, LutherDan Tateapologetics, Biblical studies, Bible, Middle Ages, Medieval, Heidegger, Martin Heidegger, Luther, Martin Luther, Lutheranism, gospel, God, truth, system, systematic, Pelikan, Jarslov Pelikan, Obedient Rebels, Reformation, Appold, Kenneth Appold, presuppositions, presuppositionalism, worldview, Christianity, reason, fallen reason, Trent, Council of Trent, Schaeffer, Francis Schaeffer, decision, free will, world picture, The Age of the World Picture, the loss of the gods, godlessness, godless modernity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, experience, religious experienceComment
CHRISTIANITY AND THE AGE OF THE WORLDVIEW
CHRISTIANITY AND THE AGE OF THE WORLDVIEW
apologetics, academia, Christian experience, Christian freedom, philosophy, theologyDan Tatetheology, conservative theology, conservative churches, progressives, progressive theology, progressive churches, philosophy, apologetics, presuppositions, Christian presuppositions, presuppositionalism, Schaeffer, Francis Schaeffer, Van Til, Cornelius Van Til, Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard, frames, framework, experience, Christian experience, secular experience, Western worldview, secular worldview, worldview, worldviews, pluralism, perspectivalism, eschatologically open, house, house frame, existential, existentialism, authentic, authenticity, synthesis, sythesize, sublate, sublation, dialectic, method, methodology, dialectic method, dialectic methodology, despair, sin, paradox, antithesis, antitheses, reason, logic, contradiction, non-contradiction, law of non-contradictionComment
Christianity and Mindfulness: Can They Work Together? Some Insights from Contemplative Prayer
Christianity and Mindfulness: Can They Work Together? Some Insights from Contemplative Prayer
apologetics, Christian experience, Christian freedom, Christian life, theology, contemplative, mindfulnessDan TateMerton, Thomas Merton, Thich Nhat Hahn, Thich, Paul, mindfulness, contemplation, New Seeds of Contemplation, The Art of Living, divine dance, cosmic dance, presence, being-with, interbeing, awareness, awake, nonreactivity, passivity, detachment, monk, Trappist, Buddhist, Al Mohler, dialogue, divine dialogue, communion, hypostatic union, Incarnation, crucifixion, purpose, purposelessness, flux, movement, event, instance, happening, being, becoming, processComment
ASKING FOR “EVIDENCE” OF GOD? YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK AGAIN AT YOUR QUESTION
ASKING FOR “EVIDENCE” OF GOD? YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK AGAIN AT YOUR QUESTION
academia, philosophy, theology, science, history, apologeticsDan Tateapologetics, history, science, scientism, history of science, Galileo, Galileo Galilei, Newton, Isaac Newton, Heidegger, Martin Heidegger, Christian, Christianity, atheism, skepticism, atheist, skeptic, scientific evidence, philosophy, theology, academic, academia, evidence for God, evidence, God, Pisa, Leaning Tower of Pisa, geometry, Einstein, Albert Einstein, Mercury, Perihelion, perihelion of Mercury, Archimedes, mathematics, What Is A Thing?, movement, Ptolemy, astronomy, Copernicus, Ptolemaic astronomy, Copernican astronomy, freefall, free fall, free fall experiment, modern science, Bacon, Francis Bacon, empirical, quantifiable, testable, replicable, utilizable, Euclid, Euclidean space, time, space, spacetime, Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, justice, Capra, Fritjof Capra, Luisi, Pier Luigi Luisi, The Systems View of Life, Hawking, Stephen Hawking, believer, God-believerComment