How to Recognize Progressive Christianity Through Theology
Theology matters because beliefs are connected with behavior. In addition to this fact, one’s theology also reveals the true source of authority serving as the ultimate foundation. Am I going to be faithful to Scripture or conform to what is culturally comfortable? A recent example of this is the book, Untamed, by Glennon Doyle,…
Is Belief in Life After Death a Fairy Story?
Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University-one of the most famous and influential scientists of our day called belief that heaven awaits us after death a “fairy story.” Here’s what Hawking said: “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers;…
Faith, Learning, and Character: An Historical Exemplar
Dr. Charles Hodge (1797-1878), principal at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1851-1878, was one of the first evangelicals to go to battle against the naturalism inherent in Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. Although the Civil War preoccupied American thinkers and commentators in the years immediately following the publishing of Darwin’s book in 1859, academic debate began…