Tag: theology
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Looking Back on 2021: Author Update from Harma-Mae Smit
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. Well, it’s not exactly true, but if there’s something you’re passionate about and you can channel your creativity towards that, then you are really making the most of your time. It’s work, yes, but you also get to explore what you love.…
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Christ Shares Our Sufferings–Does He Understand Existential Angst?
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** You’re not supposed to experience existential angst if you’re a Christian. Existential angst is the despair that stems from the conviction that life lacks meaning. We…
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Should We All be Theology Nerds?
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** I realized that, when I watch other church groups haggling over some obscure point of Christian doctrine, I tend to shake my head and think, “that’s…
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Is Science Superior to Art? (Is That Why Kuyper Wants Theology to be ‘Science’?)
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** It’s easy to bemoan the fall of Theology, from being the ‘Queen of Sciences’ to merely being a subsection of the Religious Studies department (if it…
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Kuyper Encounters Difficulties – Subjectivity Weighs In…
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** Principles of Sacred Theology continues to fascinate me, despite the reality of heavy schoolwork weighing in. In my last post I explained the amazing claim that…
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Bringing Order to Chaos–Can Human Achieve Actual True Knowledge?
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** You may’ve expected my next post to continue with Augustine, and I certainly would like to get back to Augustine, but since I currently am attending…
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