by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 1, 2009 | Graduate Papers
“Humble Presuppositionalism: Newbigin’s Fallibilist Coherentism, with a Dash of Plantinga,” originally written in June 2009 for a course at Bethel Seminary San Diego. Bracketed comments carrying my initials (DMH) mostly date to 2011 (when I first...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 1, 2009 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Graduate Papers, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Image: Van Huyssteen's Postfoundational Dream, copyright © 2021 by David M. Hodges, piouseye.com. Illustration created by combining, modifying, adding to, and subtracting from images of the Le Château des Pyrénées (1959) by René Magritte (1898-1967) and...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 14, 2008 | Annotated Quotations
Gordon H. Clark, in the 1963 Presbyterian & Reformed edition of his Karl Barth’s Theological Method, argues that letting Scripture-based theology reign as queen over the sciences yields the unity of knowledge that reason requires. He writes: Orthodox...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 21, 2007 | Annotated Quotations
Photograph by Tomasz Sienicki, acquired through Wikimedia Commons and used under the CC BY 1.0 license. Cornelius Van Til, in The Defense of The Faith (Presbyterian and Reformed, 3rd revised edition, 1967), describes how any unity of thought and experience that the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 19, 2006 | Annotated Quotations
H. P. Lovecraft, in his 1926 story “The Call of Cthulhu,” models how the unbelieving, the impious, should view the world around them—with horror, terrified. Were unbelief correct and Scripture no revelation, one would be quite reasonable to think as...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 20, 2005 | Annotated Quotations
Keith Lehrer, in his Theory of Knowledge, cautions against the sort of “commonsense” thinking prevalent among advocates of externalism, which is “The view that mental events and acts are essentially dependent on the world external to the mind, in...