theology

From Intelligent Design Novice to Fan: A Quick Postmortem of Some Twitter Discussion

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 8, 2023 | Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Resources

Image: Chimpanzee on rock. Free to use Pexels image by @jokassis, resized, cropped. Retweeting and commenting on the last in a series of articles by the Discovery Institute’s Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture (CSC)’s Dr. Jonathan McLatchie, a...

Dark-World Animadversions and Other Remarks

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 9, 2020 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary

Image: PiousEye Storm Warming. Created by David M. Hodges for the Pious Eye site by combining and modifying a public domain image and an image by Wikimedia Commons user Dudva, the latter of which was used and reworked in accord with its Creative Commons 4.0 CC BY-SA...

Brief Notice: New Old Paper Uploaded to My Academia Account

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 12, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices, Graduate Papers, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Resources

I just uploaded a paper to my Academia account. Find it here.

Will, Sensibility, and Tangents

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 26, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary, Resources

Below: some preliminary remarks on a terminological issue related to a book in progress. The book: George Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (New York: Hachette Books, 2019). The issue: “This is a republic, not a democracy—let’s keep it that...

Michael Barrett on the KJV: An Excellent and Edifying Presentation

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 4, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices, Resources

Another one for your queue (video or audio): Michael Barrett speaks on the “Tradition, Text, and Translation of the KJV.” Highly recommended.

Erratum: Trampling on TULIP

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 3, 2018 | Errata, Random Commentary

This is my first entry in the new errata category, which in all likelihood will one day be the category with the most posts. Entries in the category will note instances where I have erred or might have erred in past statements, here on the Pious Eye site or (possibly)...

One Lord, One Faith, One Olive Tree

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 29, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices, Resources

Covenant theology is not “replacement” theology. Its point is that the olive tree that is God’s people, the church, is a single tree, not two trees growing side by side with different promises and different futures (Romans 11). Though I don’t...

Don’t Baptize Another Baby Till You See This

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 26, 2018 | Brief Notices, Resources

Another worthwhile theology video for your queue: “The Covenant with Abraham…The Case Against Covenantal Infant Baptism.” Though part of a series, it stands well alone.

Christ-Centered Hermeneutics: A Binge-Worthy Video Series

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 20, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices

While, from a Bible-believing perspective, popular entertainment never merits the “binge-worthy” descriptor, it turns out there are some online resources that do. Combining a speaker’s presentation of sound theology with a digitally generated...

Visit (to Library) Prompts Letter (to Publisher): Sikh Edition

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 14, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere

This is a letter I just wrote to an organization promoting Sikhism, the youngest of the so-called “world religions.” Encountering some Sikh beliefs in a recent editing project, I became curious, visited my local library, and checked out the Sikh Religion...