by Kevin Bauder | Nov 16, 2016 | Ethics, Logic and Argumentation, Rhetoric
Jordan Standridge is concerned about political idolatry in the church. Pastor Standridge sees evidence of this idolatry in the attitudes of some evangelicals as they comment on political matters. Here is the core of his argument: And the mocking has begun. My Facebook...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 22, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Liberalism, Logic and Argumentation, Politics
Can we restore dignity to our degraded times? So asks Bruce Frohnen at The Imaginative Conservative. The very notion of infidelity as a wrong seems outdated today. Presidential candidates of both parties dismiss the thing-in-itself as meaningless or, at most, a...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 17, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Logic and Argumentation, Politics, Religious Freedom
Over at First Things, Carl Trueman opines that traditionalists are losing the conflict over marriage and sexuality, not revisionists have a better argument, but because they have a more compelling aesthetic. He doesn’t think this situation is going to turn...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 14, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Logic and Argumentation
John Goerke argues that tone is important. “Right intention” means holding to an ideal of peace, to an ideal of the finer things in life. It is a striking feature of J.R.R. Tolkien that the smallest and most vulnerable of Middle-Earth’s inhabitants rise to be the...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 8, 2016 | Church History, Homiletics, Logic and Argumentation, Theology
Yes, Charles Hodge spoke of theology as science and the Bible as a storehouse of facts. Is that a problem? Kevin DeYoung answers that question at DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed. (For what it’s worth, I like Hodge about as much as a Baptist dispensationalist...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 3, 2016 | Catholicism, Logic and Argumentation
We are not Thomists at Central Seminary, but we can still learn from Thomas’s method of argument. Here is a summary from Robert Barron at the New Oxford Review.
