by Kevin Bauder | Oct 17, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
We know God through analogies. We know ourselves through analogies. We know the world through analogies. In each case, what we already know provides some parallel to help us grasp what we do not. But how can we have confidence that these analogies are giving us...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 10, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
Some theologians grow concerned about the use of analogical language. They think that all our statements about God must be meant literally. By literally they mean that words we use of God must mean exactly what they mean when we use those words of ourselves. They fear...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 3, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
Much, and perhaps all, of what we say about God, we must say by analogy. We use the same words when we talk about God that we use when we talk about ourselves. But we do not use those words in precisely the same way. We say that God exists, for example, or that God...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 26, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
Before systematic theologians can deal with questions about content, they must first deal with questions of method and procedure. One of those questions is how to divide the theological curriculum. The usual answer is to follow ten traditional disciplines. These are...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 19, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
As I write, a week has passed since a Leftist activist assassinated Charlie Kirk. It has become clear that the assassin’s motivation was the effectiveness with which Kirk advocated his views. His opponents found that they could not answer him. Nor could they...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 12, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
[The essay was originally published on May 7, 2010.] The Bible is full of imaginative literature (by imaginative I do not mean “made up,” but rather “literature that makes its appeal to the imagination”). Much of Scripture is cast in the form...
