Hope for the Evangelical Mind
In 2004, ten years after the publication of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Mark A. Noll was unrepentant about his assessment of the Evangelical mind. I remain largely unrepentant about the book’s historical arguments, its assessment of evangelical strengths and weaknesses, and its indictment of evangelical intellectual efforts, though I have changed my mind…
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The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Mark Noll published The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind in 1994. It has become essential reading for all Christians since that time. His main thesis is that “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” How well he knew and knows the culture; how well he knew me…
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Mirabile mysterium
A wondrous mystery is proclaimed today; all natures are renewed: God has become human: he remained what he was, and what he was not he became, suffering neither confusion nor division. – Jacob Handl (1550-1591), Mirabile mysterium (as quoted in The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Mark A. Noll, Eerdmans, 1994, p. i.)
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Faith and Resistibility
I often find myself in situations in which people ask me questions about faith. The questions come in many forms: “Why are you a pastor and not a scientist?” “Why do you still dabble in science when you are a pastor?” “How can you believe in a Creator in this scientific world?” “How can you…
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There is But One Good
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” C.S. Lewis in The Great Divorce (1945) C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was brilliant at saying things in ways that make sense and challenge our thoughts. The thought expressed in the previous quote…
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