Sins of the Tongue In our time of campus speech codes and hectoring for “misgendering” someone, it is tempting to downplay the fact that you really can do harm with your speech. Two of the Ten Commandments prohibit forms of speech–blasphemy and false witness. A case could be made that those are the same thing–just …
The Image of God: Male and Female Today Glenn shares some of his reflections on how the image of God is reflected in creation by the respective roles of men and women. Using the pattern of “forming and filling” from Genesis chapter one, Glenn notes that these correspond to the respective tasks of men and …
Welcome to Babel: Evangelicals and the Pragmatic De-construction of Language In today’s show C. R Wiley raises the question, “Can Christians be Pragmatists?” Quotations from William James and Richard Rorty, two of the 20th centuries greatest pragmatists, show how pragmatism is hostile to the classical Christian understanding of the relationship between words and the world. …
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Nature and Names – Does Anything Mean Anything? Today Tom Price shares an article by the English theologian Oliver O’Donovan entitled, The Natural Ethic. The discussion gets into late medieval developments in philosophy–specifically voluntarism and nominalism. Glenn raises some historical qualifications, but all are agreed that we live in a time when things are falling …
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Undressing Transgenderism In today’s show, Glenn analyzes the phenomenon of transgenderism and its meteoric rise to cause celebre’. Using “cultural marxism” to understand the phenomenon Glenn discusses both its appeal and its use of intimidation to force normalization. Tom looks at the phenomenon through the lens of the relationship of the transcendent God with his …
The End of Complementarianism? Aaron Renn and the Masculinist #30 Chris gives an overview of the newsletter The Masculinist, and its creator Aaron Renn. Then he introduces the controversial claim made in the latest edition that “Complementarianism” (the belief that men and women have different roles in the household and the church but not in …
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Creation from Nothing Means Something In today’s show, Dr. Thomas Price shares an article written by his old mentor at Oxford, Dr. John Webster. The article is entitled: “Love is Also a Lover of Life: Creatio Ex Nihilo and Creaturely Goodness.” After Tom explains the importance of transcendence and the doctrine of creation from nothing, …
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“Cultural Marxism”: An Emerging Worldview Dr. Glenn Sunshine speaks with Dr. Thomas Price and C. R. Wiley about his recent article at BreakPoint entitled: An Emerging Worldview.” Although none of the Theology Pugcast team like the term “Cultural Marxism,” it is useful for understanding at least one aspect of this phenomenon.