by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 3, 2022 | Annotated Quotations, Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary, Trinity Foundation Reviews
Prospective Remarks This post comprises three sets of remarks: The first set laments how anarchists dominate groups I formerly believed I could endorse. I desire a nation, states, and localities characterized by liberty, not anarchy. One group of liberty advocates who...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 1, 2013 | Annotated Quotations, Book (& Other) Reviews, Resources
“‘Social’ or Distributive Justice.” Chapter 9 in Law, Legislation and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pages...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 8, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Do Christians disagree in their interpretations of Scripture because Scripture is unclear, perhaps because spiritual truths transcend human language and so cannot be perfectly captured in words? Though many today would answer, “yes,” Samuel Hopkins,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 6, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Though his text should carry a warning for much of its content (page 68’s error of calling unborn children “potential life” is especially grievous, and scripturally-suspect psychobabble abounds), John White does, in this late-seventies text, provide...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 3, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
John D. Morris, Ph.D., concludes a discussion of various methods for determining the age of the earth by noting how those methods that indicate young ages seem reasonably expected to be more reliable than those indicating ages sufficiently old to mesh with the time...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 25, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Richard Ganz condemns the growing popularity in Christian circles of such self-exploratory therapies as “healing of memories,” which Pious Eye would note (from his own observation and experience) seem very popular in seminary “spiritual...
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 20, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Yesterday’s quote asked if Byzantine-priority or Majority Text theory is “less naturalistic and anthropocentric, and so more pious (and less impious), than the highly naturalistic and anthropocentric methodology of the eclectics.” In today’s...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 18, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Maurice Robinson contrasts the Byzantine-priority (AKA Majority Text) approach to New Testament Textual Criticism, which he favors (and which in turn favors such versions as the King James, 21st Century King James, and New King James), to the dominant eclectic...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 13, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Martin and Deidre Bobgan assert that the prudent course for the pious is to choose biblical counseling over either secular psychotherapy or the many biblical-secular/pious-impious hybridizations offered as “Christian”” psychotherapy. Do you (like Pious...