Archive | October, 2014

C.S. Lewis Anticipated Thomas Nagel

October 22, 2014 by Kyle Dillon 3 Comments

I am currently walking my 9th grade theology class through C.S. Lewis’s classic Mere Christianity. We are on chapter 4, the final note of which called to mind the thesis of the recent book Mind and Cosmos by philosopher Thomas Nagel (Oxford University Press, 2012), which I reviewed last year. Nagel takes a rather unique position; although he […]

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Apologetics, Science & Faith
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Berkouwer on the Covenant of Works

October 21, 2014 by Kyle Dillon 1 Comment

G.C. Berkouwer (1903-1996) was a leading 20th-century Dutch theologian in the neo-Calvinist tradition of Abraham Kuyper and S.G. De Graaf. His major work was his 14-volume Studies in Dogmatics, from which the following quote is taken. Here he critiques the language (though not the substance) of the Westminster Confession’s “Covenant of Works.” In many respects, his […]

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Biblical Theology, Covenant Theology
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