Joseph Minich
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Why God Feels Absent in Modern Life with Joseph Minich and Michael Horton
Joseph Minich of the Davenant Institute joins Michael Horton to discuss his book Bulwarks of Unbelief, exploring the modern obstacles that make belief in God feel increasingly implausible today.
Civilization, Confession, Persuasion – Part II
In Part 1 of this essay, I argued that Christians have an interest in cultivating public sites of theological negotiation and persuasion in precisely those locations where a critical mass of human wondering suggests the need. The free appropriation of orthodoxy (“confession” is always a task in the present-tense) and knowing where maturity is demanded […]
Civilization, Confession, Persuasion – Part I
“Whatever is not from faith is sin,” Paul wrote (Rom. 14:23). While speaking about secondary truths in context, implicit in the Protestant project is the conviction that Paul’s statement applies to primary truths as well. The conscience, due to the necessity of making individual judgments, straddles all classes of truth. And the wisdom of Paul […]
The Living One
We end where most of us begin, wondering how the mind of man can become persuaded of the truth that God exists. We implicitly initiated this journey (at the beginning of the series) by clarifying the nature of the term “God” and the nature of the term “existence,” and then we continued to look at […]
Believing That God Is Good
In my previous post , I took up the question of God’s beauty. In this penultimate post, we move to the question of God’s goodness. If the question of beauty takes the form of worrying that God is a killjoy, the question of goodness worries that God is a killer simpliciter. Not only is His […]
