John Warwick Montgomery
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Why You Should Not Buy into Confucianism
Interestingly enough, as liberal theologians reach the end of their careers, they often plunge into a study of Eastern religiosity. Examples include John Hick, D. Z. Phillips, Ninian Smart (some years ago, in 1993, Phillips, Smart, and I were featured speakers on the same university religion panel at the California State University at Fullerton), (1) […]
The Problem of a “Plastic Text”: The Kloha Essay on “Text and Authority”
Since Bart Ehrman, textual critic and former evangelical, has been issuing his broadsides at the notion of biblical inerrancy, two kinds of response have appeared on the American theological scene. On the one hand, it has been correctly noted that Ehrman does not give the benefit of the doubt to the best textual readings of […]
God at University College Dublin
On October 8, 2008, the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin sponsored a debate on the motion that “this house finds it irrational to believe in God.” In the nineteenth century, philosopher and lay theologian Søren Kierkegaard warned against such occasions; in his Concluding Scientific Postscript, he asked whether raising such a question […]
God & Other Law-Makers
In my opinion, the integration of theology and secular disciplines, or theology and culture, ought to take place. In this article, therefore, we’re going to deal, first of all, with the subject of why law needs theology. And after we’ve done that, we’re going to turn it around and we’re going to see why theology […]
Legislating Morality
In the earlier days of our nation’s history, this dilemma, though always present in theory, was not especially troublesome in practice, since the vast majority of people–the “men on the street”–at least gave lip service to the biblical faith. But now religious and philosophical diversity has reached such a point in the United States that […]
