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ST. MAXIMUS CONFESSOR, VISIONARY OF THE COSMIC CHRIST: A CRASH COURSE

WHAT IS SIN? WHAT PAUL MEANS BY “THE LAW IN MY MEMBERS” (ON CONCUPISCENCE)

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 TateOctober 4, 2019Luther, 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

apologetics, academia, Christian experience, Christian freedom, philosophy, theologyDan TateSeptember 21, 2019theology, 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

ASKING FOR “EVIDENCE” OF GOD? YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK AGAIN AT YOUR QUESTION

academia, philosophy, theology, science, history, apologeticsDan TateJuly 25, 2019apologetics, 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

After Modernity… What?! Part 5: The Church Has an Insularity Problem – And Learning New Philosophy Is a Big Part of the Solution

After Modernity… What?! Part 4: Against Accommodationism: What the Church Fathers Can Teach Us About Engaging the Modern World

church, theology, academia, philosophy, Paleo-OrthodoxyDan TateJune 18, 2019dogmatics, accommodationism, physis, Scriptures, church fathers and mothers, Heraclitus, Christian dogma, Jerusalem, paleo-orthodox, Athens, metaphysics, Christian dogmatics, Maximos the Confessor, church fathers, Nicaea, pagan philosophy, essence, Maximus, Nicene Creed, Acts, oden, Platonism, polemics, Stoics, Phaenomena, Simplicianus, pagan, Zeus, contemporary philosophy, Confessions, hypostatic union, Rudolf Bultmann, Paleo-Orthodoxy, ousia, Origen, Old Testament, Aratus, Maximus the Confessor, Augustine, tradition, philosophy, theology, Charles Hartshorne, What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem, Christ, Thomas C Oden, New Testament, Council of Chalcedon, person of Christ, hypostases, Paul, Aquinas, Maximos, Tertullian, dogma, Plato, Aristotle, nature, Greek metaphysicsComment

After Modernity… What?! Part 3: What Does Thomas C. Oden Miss in His Book? On the Spirit of the Fathers and the Importance of Philosophy

Paleo-Orthodoxy, theology, academiaDan TateJune 3, 2019trendiness, Modern Philosophy, conservative theology, Being and Time, thinking, trendy, church needs, Thomas C. Oden, Agenda for Theology, Hartshorne, church fathers, church mothers, Charles Hartshorne, patristic spirituality, methodology, After Modernity... What?!, abuse of nature, future of the church, ordering of nature, Letter Concerning Humanism, modern philosophy, Rudolf Bultmann, technology, tradition, patristic, Martin Heidegger, Heidegger, dogma, Thomas C Oden, modernity, Alfred North Whitehead, Whitehead, Habermas, Paul Tillich, doctors of the church, thought, liberal theology, manipulation of nature, Bultmann, trendiness in theology, Tillich, theology, patristic thought, church fathers and mothers, Paleo-Orthodoxy, The Question Concerning Technology, Oden, orderingComment

After Modernity… What?! Part 2: Are We Really Postmodern – Or Are We Ultramodern?

WHAT'S IN A NAME?: MEDITATIONS ON "JESUS MESSIAH"

Christian experience, Christian life, Paul, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, theology, religious studies, Biblical studies, Jesus of NazarethDan TateApril 19, 2019Jesus, Name, name of Jesus, heart, bold, forgiveness, the word is near you, the word is near to your mouth, the word is near to your heart, Messiah, Jesus the Messiah, Jesus Messiah, Jesus Christ, Christ, Christos, ancient, ancient Israel, Israel, Richard Bauckham, Jesus: A Very Short Introduction, prophet, the prophet, exodus, Moses, covenant, deeds of power, authoritative, miracle-worker, Reformed, Reformed theology, prophetic office, offices of christ, threefold office of christ, priestly office, kingly office, royal office, Roman, Rome, ancient Rome, Roman oppression, kingdom of God, kingdom, Messianic, revolutionaries, Jewish revolutionaries, zealots, Jewish zealots, Jesus military leader, liberate, liberation, liberation of Israel, oppression, political oppression, spiritual oppression, domination, political domination, spiritual domination, divine authority, the theologically educated, God's right hand, right hand, right hand of God, Mighty One, Messiahship, Paul, Christian lifeComment

FOR HERE TOO GOD IS PRESENT: EXPERIENCE OF THE WEAKNESS OF GOD IN FIRST CORINTHIANS

Christian experience, Christian life, Paul, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, theologyDan TateApril 18, 2019name, Jesus, name of Jesus, trusting in the name, victory, spiritual victory, Christ crucified, stumbling block, foolishness, contemptible nonsense, nonsense, weakness, weakness of God, weakness of Christ, the power of God, the wisdom of God, community, factionalism, arrogance, Corinthians, 1 Corinthians, Corinth, demonstration, demonstration of the Spirit, demonstration of power, imitation of Christ, power in weakness, one sent to die, sent to die, rejected by society, glory, glory in the Lord, glorified in weakness, justification, sanctification, redemption, glorification, communion, communion with God, Sunday School, rote phrases, rote repetition, the humble, the despised, the overlooked, beauty, wonder, significance, eyes to see, ears to hear, hearts to understand, treasure, heart, suffering, death, despondency, disease, destruction, resurrection, participate, participation in God, participation in Christ, Christ and Him crucified, poverty of spirit, reconciliation, the common good, for the common good, Heraclitus, Justin Martyr, Aristotle, HeideggerComment

LOVE HAS A NAME: THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY

theology, Christian experience, Christian life, phenomenology, Paul, philosophy of religionDan TateApril 18, 2019love, name, the heart of christianity, faith, faith life, rejecting the faith, what is rejected?, gospel, faith vs. gospel, John 3:16, all things have become new, presuppositions, Christian presuppositions, Christian experience, faith experience, experience, phenomenology, phenomenology of religion, philosophy of religion, phenomenology of faith, phenomenology of religious life, word of reconciliation, word of faith, the word is near you, the word is near to your mouth, trust, faith as trust, faith is trust, trust in God, trust in Jesus, judgment day, apocalypse, apocalyptic, cosmic reckoning, cosmic, cosmos, God's judgment, righteousness, trustworthy, trustworthy God, trusting in the name, name of Jesus, name of God, name it and claim it, Jesus is Lord, Lord Jesus, Jesus rose from the dead, He is risen, the wisdom of God, the power of God, the wisdom of God made manifest, the power of God made manifest, confess, confession, mercy, God's mercy, the true pathComment

The Crisis in Christianity

theology, culture, academia, churchDan TateApril 1, 2019church, crisis, West, Europe, America, mainline church, evangelical church, Catholic Church, East Orthodox Church, denominations, millennial religion, millennial spirituality, millennials, millennials and the church, progressives, conservatives, progressive theology, conservative theology, progressive churches, conservative churches, progressive errors, conservative errors, progressive Christian problems, conservative Christian problems, demythologize, cultural zeitgeist, reductionism, scientism, why care about God?, millennials who care about God, love, outdated institutions, outdated, outdated beliefs, outdated religion, outdated Christianity, anthropocentrism, moralism, activism, social gospel, Rauschenbusch, church as pillar of society, pillar of society, old church ideals, Albert Schweitzer, The Quest for the Historical Jesus, Historical Jesus, Jesus Seminar, fundamentals, fundamentalism, fundamental doctrine, Scripture, inerrancy, infallibility, Chicago Statement, Creationism, Six-Day Creationism, traditional, traditionalism, Christian subculture, Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Mainline, Evangelical, Biblical inerrancy, penal substitution, Thomism, Tridentine Catholicism, Vatican II, aerial tollhouses, Billy Graham, evangelicalism, revivals, post-Christian, United States, United States Christian nation, moral majority, American heartland, George W. Bush, neoconservatism, neocon, elites, elitism, Washingon, Washington, Washington D.C., nationalism, globalism, quietism, social issues, justice, politics, spiritual revolution, apostasy, nones, mainline attendance, mainline attendance decline, hurt by the church, apathy towards the church, prosperity gospel, twentieth century, twenty-first century, New Age, contemplation, contemplating Christ in all things, Christian blog, Christian blog purpose, purpose, vision

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