Posted in Doctrine of God, augustine, sin, tagged epistemology, God's will, predestination, confessions on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
You have ordered it, and so it is, that every disordered mind should be its own punishment. (St. Augustine, Confessions, I.12)
Posted in History, Van Til, augustine, philosophy, tagged truth, antithesis, Medieval on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
As I read it is becoming more clear to me that folks like Van Til, Schaeffer, and Bahnsen did not invent the idea that Modern Philosophy has borrowed turf from Christianity. Van Til was critical of Medieval Philosophy for being too rationalistic but Ettiene Gilson in his The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy argues that Modern [...]
Posted in Christology, Ecclesiology, Sacramentology, augustine, tagged augustine, visible/invisible church, Sacraments on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
‘They drank,’ he [Paul] said, ‘of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.” Thus the bread, thus the drink. The rock was Christ in sign; the real Christ is in the Word and in flesh …. But this is what belongs to the virtue of the sacrament, not to the visible [...]
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