Aquinas: The Duty of the Wise Person
While reading Aquinas’ Summa Against Gentiles, I found this little gem in the very beginning of the work: Now, the end of each thing is that which is inte...
Category: Philosophy
Published at the Zubiri Review
Remember that I graduated from Calvin Seminary as a Master of Theology? Well, if that’s the case you might also remember that i majored in Philosophical T...
Aquinas on Hope
Wherefore, in so far as we hope for anything as being possible to us by means of the Divine assistance, our hope attains God Himself, on Whose help it leans. It...
Graduated from Seminary
Some of you may know that I was a graduate student at Calvin Theological Seminary. From 2000 to 2002, I was a student in residence for the Master of Theology de...
Sympathy For The Devil — Dr. Brian Mattson
More on Noah: the movie. Dr. Brian Mattson points some interesting issues that I also suspected. In short, he exposes Noah as an apology of Kabbalistic Gnostici...
Wikileaks and the “Dissent Tax”
First things first: Merry Christmas! A Christmas post is imminent. Stay tuned 😉 And second: It’s been a looong time! I know, I know… but work and la...
The Least Common of the Senses in Computing
If you forgive me the obviousness, you may have already heard that somewhere else that “common sense is the least common of all senses”. As far as p...
On Porn: A side note
First, a disgression. I know it’s been a long time since I posted something substantial here. This is because of my busy life, and in part… because ...
Luke: What’s so bad about the Nazis anyway?
I found this excellent article at All Unkept, Luke Plant’s blog : What’s so bad about the Nazis anyway?. It is a great application of slippery-slope...
On Porn: Get yourself a reputation…
There is a well-known Spanish saying: «Hazte de fama, y échate a dormir»: Get yourself a reputation, and go to sleep… meaning, of course, that when it ...
On Porn: More Interesting Links
Disturbing report: Comments on a report showing how many pornographers are reaching out to kids. Disturbing, indeed. ChristiaNet Poll Finds That Evangelicals Ar...
On Porn: Some Interesting Links
I would like to share some interesting links I found via ChristDot. You will find links to the corresponding Christdot page instead of the article itself (in ca...
On Porn: Arguments Against It Examined
See also: 1. On Porn: A Catastrophic Pastoral Failure. 2. On Porn: Differentiation and Definition. On our first post we stated that there was a definite problem...
On Porn: Defining Porn, and Double Standards
I would like to thank my readers for their kind comments on my previous post on porn. This indicates that many people feel that this is something that really ne...
Final Article on Kant in Paraguayan Newspaper
Today the third and last part of my Kant series appeared on the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color. You can see it in Spanish in the newspaper’s website here....
On Porn: A Catastrophic Pastoral Failure
If a transtemporal, transfinite good is our real destiny, then any other good on which our desire fixes must be in some degree fallacious, must bear at best onl...
On the Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: Approaching the book
When one opens the Ecclesiastes, one might perceive that one is looking at a book that is totally different from other books in the Bible. That’s right; E...
Kant Paper in Paraguayan Daily, Part Two
If you have read this recent post, then you might be interested to learn that the second part of my paper on Kant has been published in the Paraguayan newspaper...
A response from Doug
Doug has written a nice response where he makes some clarifications and corrections to my previous post on the “worship wars.” I found interesting t...
Just Shut Up And Take It Like A Man
The title might look shocking, and it is. And yet, there are too many Christians and churches that are happy to tell their brethren to act like this as their an...
Kant Paper in Paraguayan Daily
Some of you might remember my paper “Influence of Protestant Dogmatics in the Thought of Inmanuel Kant” (abridged English version, full Spanish vers...
On the Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: God as a Fellow Traveler
The Old Testament is a gagged book. Indeed, a careful reading of the Hebrew Bible will show whole books, chapters, and verses that have been silenced. A prime e...
On the Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: Some Common Interpretations Offered
The question of how shall we interpret the Ecclesiastes is in some ways related to the larger issue of Old Testament interpretation. Ecclesiastes has suffered g...
On The Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: The Value of the Old Testament in the Christian Church
This is the beginning of a series on my favorite book of the Bible: Ecclesiastes. I plan to write later about the reasons why Ecclesiastes is such a favorite of...
Ed Hurst: The School of Holy Cynicism
Sometimes the message you want to convey is much better said by someone else in such a way that adding something further looks like an offense. Such is the case...
Neo-Orthodoxy or Fundamentalism?
In a recent post, Tim lamented the fact that some self-labeled “Fundamentalists” had their priorities wrong. He specifically cited an instance where...
Continental Philosophy since 1750: A Review
Robert C. Solomon. Continental Philosophy since 1750: The Rise and Fall of the Self. No. 7 in the series A History of Western Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford Univers...
The Aestethics of Christian Worship
Two days ago, my boss pointed me out to a very significative statement made by Denton Lotz, General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. The statement was m...
A (very late) Book Meme
Tim tagged me for a book meme some ages ago. Dialup and time crunch prevented me again from doing this before; but here it is at last: How many books have I own...
The Boom Box Issue
I would like to share with you something that happened to my wife at her work. She is blessed to work at an evangelical (Baptist) institution with a large staff...