Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Rachael Denhollander, one of Larry Nassar's sexual abuse victims at Michigan State University, makes it plain: Bethany Jenkins, vice president of forums at the Veritas Forum, which helped to organize the event, reported that Denhollander was asked about her view of the church responding to the issue of sexual abuse. When asked "how do you …
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The history of the Twentieth Century is one written in blood. Between two world wars, the procession of genocides from Armenia to Stalin to the Holocaust, China and the Killing Fields, millions seemed to vanish for causes that are better hated than understood. Is there one conflict that we can look at than encapsulates the …
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It's an old Evangelical tradition: the "Easter Sunrise Service," when people get out of bed early to go to church (or somewhere) and celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. For some people--especially musicians--rising from the dead is an easier task than getting up in the morning. Celebrating anything before noon is …
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In all of their glorification of the "giants of the faith," evangelicals either overlook or ignore the fact that same giants were usually far better versed in the classics of antiquity than is common today.  To some extent this is understandable: study of these works has taken a beating the last fifty years, and we …
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This series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day, is complete. The table of contents for this is below. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. The snake. The temptation. Eve is attacked before Adam. The tempter proceeds by underhanded questioning to first produce a doubt. Answer of Eve …
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This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. But the great penalty of sin, which alone is proportionate, is eternal death, and this punishment of sin is locked up in sin itself; for sin being nothing other …
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This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. In the day that you eat the forbidden fruit, you will die of death. In the very end you will die of the death of the soul, which will …
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This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. And God said, Give in to Adam, who has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Let us take care, then, that one may put his hand …
This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. And the Lord God made garments of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Man becomes not only mortal, but exposed, by his mortality, to all the …
This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. God said to Adam: Because you have listened to the word of your wife. This is where the accusation begins: the man is convinced at first of going along …
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