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) | Jul 2, 2008 | Annotated Quotations
In the 2005 (second) edition of Did God Create In 6 Days? (Tolle Lege Press, Presbyterian Press, and The Covenant Foundation), Joseph A. Pipa asserts the following about the correct interpretation of Genesis 1: …although Scripture speaks idiomatically about the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 7, 2008 | Annotated Quotations
Philip Jacob Spener, in his 1675 book Pia Desideria (Pious Desires), addressed the origin of impious interpretive schemes at odds with the perspicuity (clarity) of Scripture. Theodore Tappert translates Spener’s remarks as follows: Subtleties unknown to the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 30, 2007 | Annotated Quotations
In To Be As God: A Study of Modern Thought Since The Marquis de Sade (Ross House, 2003) Rousas John Rushdoony reiterates how the consistent immorality of the Marquis de Sade is the course most logically consistent with unbelief. Because [the Marquis de] Sade was so...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 15, 2007 | Annotated Quotations
Rousas John Rushdoony, in his The Mythology Of Science (Ross House edition, 2001), points out the logical superiority (given unbelieving or “neutral” premises) of the Marquis de Sade’s anti-ethics over relativistic “consenting adults”...
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) | Jan 16, 2006 | Annotated Quotations
Photo by Flickr user Andreas Møller, used under Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 2.0.In the 1981 InterVarsity edition of his book Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person by Whole People, Will Metzger warned against using a watered-down “feel...
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...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 4, 2005 | Annotated Quotations
The late longevity researcher, Roy Walford, M.D., noted how such exercises-to-exhaustion as marathon running could shorten lifespan, a matter perhaps relevant to Christian stewardship. In his Beyond The 120 Year Diet: How To Double Your Vital Years (2000 revised and...