Making Sense of Genesis 1: The Fundamental Biblical Worldview
Some of the most hotly-contested chapters in the entire Bible these days are those found in Genesis 1-11. Young Earth Creationists argue that they are literal h...
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Getting a Handle on the Old Testament Story (Part 1): Merry Christmas–I’m Giving You the Gift of Old Testament Understanding!
The Old Testament is a collection of 39 books, written roughly over a span of 1,000 years, and it covers the entire history of ancient Israel. It contains narra...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 71): So, How Should We Then Live?
In his book, The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark said the following in regards to Christianity and Western Civilization: “Christianity created Western Civilizat...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 69): Postmodernism and Michel Foucault–Systems of Power
In his book, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?, James K.A. Smith discusses three major postmodern thinkers, and (in my opinion) not only successfully articulates h...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 59): Vladimir Lenin, the USSR, and the Rise of Communism
It goes without saying: the first half of the 20th century witnessed the greatest atrocities in human history. And as horrific as WWI (1914-1919) was, it would ...
A Little Bit of Old Testament Overview (so you can begin to understand the big picture)
I think it is safe to say that, outside of a few famous Sunday School versions of a few Old Testament stories, a handful of Psalms, and a number of select Prove...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 13): The Byzantine Age (313 AD-1054 AD)–The “Middle Ages” that Never Were
The “Middle Ages” That Never Were Most history books lump the time between the rise of Constantine and the Renaissance as the “Middle Ages,” or the “Medieval Pe...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 5): Classical Greek Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, and Cynics…Oh My!
The philosophy of Plato and Aristotle ended up having a great deal of significance throughout Church history (as we will eventually see). Yet our understanding ...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 2): The Philosophy of Classical Greece (479-323 BC): A Very Brief Look at Socrates–Democracy, Tyrants…and the Unexamined Life
Around 500 BC, a major political shift occurred in Greece. After the defeat of the Persians, the Greek general Pericles (495-429 BC) led Athens into a golden ag...
That’s the Ways of the Worldviews (A Book that Will Be Blog Posts This Year!)
Back in the Fall of 2007, I started teaching Biblical Worldview at a small Evangelical Christian high school in Alabama. The headmaster essentially gave me free...