by Kevin Bauder | Aug 19, 2017 | Logic and Argumentation, Theology
Zartman is not concerned with simplicity of life, but with simplicity of thought. Read “Against Being Simple.” One of the reactions to sophisticated doctrinal debates that provokes me is this cry of simplicity. “Why must we be philosophical?” The...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 19, 2017 | Affections, Anthropology, Civility, Conservatism, Culture, Epistemology, Hamartiology, Logic and Argumentation, Philosophy, Science, Secularism, Social Issues, Technology
Richard Weaver was one of the three or four most important founders of modern conservatism. His Ideas Have Consequences is probably the most important work in defining a conservative outlook. His notion of “metaphysical dream” is priceless. The Imaginative...
by Kevin Bauder | Jun 26, 2017 | Accountability, Argumentation and Debate, Culture, Epistemology, Logic and Argumentation, Our Alumni, Tradition
Central Seminary alumnus David DeBruyn notes, “The Internet has not only granted full democracy to all ideas, it has tended to flatten out all judgement, and scrap a sense of hierarchy of trustworthiness.” He adds, “The democracy of ideas is...
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 1, 2017 | Logic and Argumentation, Philosophy, Theology
That seems to be what Joel Zartman is driving at. My point is not that Athanasius was not a Christian. My point is that committed and robust 4th century Christianity found the categories of Platonism extremely congenial, greatly so. It was how they made sense of...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 3, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Apologetics, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Logic and Argumentation
Reason by its very nature is limited and therefore cannot help us in our pursuit of the unlimited God. Reason may bring us to the door, but only faith can unlock the door that we may go into the presence of God. Faith is not unreasonable; it just operates above the...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 30, 2016 | America, Ethics, Logic and Argumentation, Manliness
I think he’s just about right on this topic. Have we entered a cultural situation in which men are automatically perceived as bad because some men are bad? Some years ago I read a feminist declare that “All men are potential rapists.” Popular culture, especially...
