by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 8, 2012 | In The News
This was created as an op-ed for the U-T San Diego, my local paper, and posted here as a draft on the same day I emailed it to the U-T (that is, 08 December 2012, the day of the U-T article that prompted my remarks). It would not be made visible here until I either...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 23, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Ronald H. Nash emphasizes the nature of the Christian God as one who can be known and who communicates verbally with persons he has specially created with an ability to understand such communications. Rationality and perspicuity, not irrationality and ineffable...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 6, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Peter Kreeft, commenting on Pascal’s Wager, notes how inevitable death makes choice between Christian belief and unbelief unavoidable.We are “condemned to freedom” (to use Sartre’s formula). “There is no choice”, says Pascal; that...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 5, 2011 | Annotated Quotations
Image courtesy ArmchairBuilder.com (Creative Commons license). Greg L. Bahnsen, in his Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended, offers insight on the properly pious Christian approach to apologetics.In Scripture, God requires Christian believers to subject...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 1, 2011 | Graduate Papers
Originally written for a course at Luther Rice University & Seminary in August 2011, under the title “Zen & The Art of Gospel-Evasion: An Interview with Commentary.” Outline PrefaceZen & The Art of Gospel-Evasion: An Interview with...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 1, 2011 | Graduate Papers
Image: intentionally blurred picture of “winter railings” courtesy flickr’s tarrytown (creative commons license).”Originally written for a course at Luther Rice University & Seminary in August 2011, under the title “Zen: Accepting...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 11, 2009 | Annotated Quotations
Image: “life is a mystery” mug, a photo by Flickr user Cheryl, used under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) license. In The Fountainhead (1996 Signet paperback edition), Ayn Rand, atheist philosopher-novelist and widely known proponent of a godless and (to...
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) | Jan 8, 2009 | Annotated Quotations
Some suggest that pious Christian faith includes belief that the logically contradictory is true, such as in a divine realm beyond the laws of logic and all distinctions. In By Scripture Alone (2002 Trinity Foundation edition), W. Gary Crampton rejects this as impious...
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...