"The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts,"
writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the
glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty
to the praise of God." Many Christians, wary of creating graven
images, have steered clear of artistic creativity. But the Bible
offers a robust affirmation of the arts. The human impulse to
create ...
What is the nature of reality? At the root of our society's
deepest political and cultural divisions are the conflicting
principles of four global worldviews. While each of us holds to
some version of one of these worldviews, we are often unconscious
of their differences as well as their underlying assumptions. Mary
Poplin argues that the ultimate test of a worldview, philosophy or
ideology is ...
Voted one of Christianity Today's 1995 Books of the
Year
Time magazine reports on a remarkable renaissance of
religious belief among philosophers: "In a quiet revolution in
thought and arguments that hardly anyone could have foreseen only
two decades ago, God is making a comeback. Most intriguingly, this
is happening . . . in the crisp, intellectual ...
Rumors of deception have surrounded claims of Jesus'
resurrection ever since the soldiers appointed to guard his tomb
made their report to the Jewish authorities. But no one has led the
philosophic charge against miracles quite as influentially as David
Hume with his 1748 essay "Of Miracles." Refined, revised, restated,
his arguments still affect philosophic discussions of miracles
today.
A Christianity Today 1995 Books of the Year
Finalist
Believing. Most of us take it for granted. We just do
it--whether it's trusting that the sun will come up tomorrow, that
the lunch we are about to eat is not poisoned or that our religious
beliefs are not ill-founded. But why should we believe any of these
things? Why should anyone believe anything at ...
What should we do or not do? What attitudes, behavior and
qualities are good? Can we be good without God? What is the highest
good, the purpose of human existence? These are the questions the
study of ethics seeks to answer. Unlike many approaches to ethics,
this book foundationally turns to Scripture, going only as far as
Scripture itself goes. The result is an overview of biblical ethics
that ...
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