This guest post was submitted by Dr James Hannam. Dr Hannam is a UK based historian with degrees in physics and history from the Universities of Oxford and London and a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge. He blogs at Quodlibeta. The film adaptation of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons […]
Entries Tagged as 'Christian History'
Guest Post: Dan Brown’s History of Science
October 23rd, 2009 135 Comments
Tags: Christian History · Dan Brown · Faith and Reason · Guest Post · James Hannam · Religious History · Science and Religion
Common Historical Myths About the Church
October 19th, 2009 5 Comments
This post is part update, part recycle. Earlier on in this blog’s life, I ran a small series of posts last year on common historical myths about the Church that are so pervasive in society that most Christians fall for them. Anyway, after receiving some correspondence, I have updated this post, More on the “Dark […]
Tags: Christian Blogs · Christian History · Dark · Dark Ages · Faith and Reason · Science and Religion
Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part II
September 13th, 2009 11 Comments
In a previous post, Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part I, I discussed some translations of the sixth commandment of the Decalogue. I began with the King James Version (KJV), “thou shall not kill.”[1] I looked at problems with this translation most famously raised by Augustine. The New International Version (NIV) and New Revised […]
Tags: Augustine · Ethics · Old Testament Ethics · Sunday Study · Ten Commandments · Theology
Sunday Study R 13: Romans, Revelations and the Role of the State
September 4th, 2009 6 Comments
In a previous post, Sunday Study: 666 The Number of the Beast, I exegeted Revelation 13’s infamous reference to the mark of the beast, in that post I argued that the first beast is a reference to Rome; a world empire, built on seven hills that ruled over all the nations of the earth at […]
Tags: Hermeneutics · Hitler · Role of the State · Sunday Study · Theology
Good Friday: Why Celebrate Easter?
April 10th, 2009 85 Comments
Last Sunday Christian, my eldest son, asked me “what is the point in baptism?” In the ensuing conversation it became clear that his real struggle was with the idea of ‘ritual ceremony’ and the symbolism involved. Christian has Aspergers Syndrome and is quite literal (which is is a typical Aspie trait). Ceremonies are often metaphorical; […]
Tags: Aspergers Syndrome · Easter · Good Friday · Theology
St Patrick’s Day: A Protestants’ Musings
March 17th, 2009 5 Comments
Today is St Patrick’s day. Many tonight will find themselves dressed in green, possibly slurring slightly, with a handle of green Guinness in one hand and most won’t really be certain as to why. Now one wonders why so many people who are not Catholic or Irish feel the need to celebrate a saint on 17 […]
Tags: Religious History · St Patrick
What About the Poor? More on Sustenance Rights
November 19th, 2008 9 Comments
In my last post, What About the Poor? Sustenance Rights Examined, I noted the position of Nicholas Wolterstorff that, “If a rich man knows of someone who is starving and has the power to help that person, and chooses not to, then he violates that person’s rights as surely and reprehensively as if he had […]
Tags: Christian History · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Role of the State · Welfare
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
