by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 24, 2015 | Aging, Suffering
Kazuo Ishiguro in The Buried Giant has written a novel that is reminiscent of Tolkien’s The Hobbit. It is the journey of Axl and Beatrice, two elderly Briton’s, to find their son, whom they can hardly remember due to a mist that afflicts post-Arthurian Britain. The...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 18, 2015 | Atheism, Faith, Jesus, Witness
Some years ago I wrote a book on Faith, entitled Buried Treasure. One of the chapters was entitled, Why I Believe in Jesus Christ. We reproduced it many times on request and always ran out of copies so we have made it into an e-book available on Kindle at Amazon....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 18, 2015 | Atheism, Faith
What is the relationship of reason to faith? “Faith is not that suicidal rigid sacrifice of the intellect for which it is often mistaken; it does not imply the denial of the intellect as such, but only its limitation and control. But it is precisely this limitation...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 17, 2015 | Atheism, Faith, Jesus
I want to share with you some of my reading through the work of Emil Brunner (1889-1966) who was professor of theology at Zurich 1924-1953. “In Christianity faith in the Mediator is not something optional, not something about which, in the last resort, it is possible...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 17, 2015 | Morality, The World
Jonathan Last in an article on fatherhood, manliness and failure, A Dad’s Life (The Weekly Standard, May 25, 2015) asks whether there is anything that unifies the good parts of manliness. He maintains that the nuclear core of manliness is, what Harvard Professor...
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