A collection of other publications which have proved helpful to academics
There are many instances out there where over the past twenty years this supposed joke that God could not be a good or legitimate academic due to thirteen defined reasons, of which there are variations in wording but essentially addressing the same point. I have written counter arguments to these ten points listed below, which…
A new book by Mark A. Pike Mere Education UK flyer(pdf)
The first Conference talk given by Peter Lewis to the C-A-N 2002 conference under the general theme ‘Countering Post-Modernism in our World’. Here he outlines those factors and values which reinforce the Christian’s concept of the reality of personal identity and uniqueness. My Position Before God The greatest question for Job and those who thought…
Abstract. Many passages in the Bible are unequivocal that Christ died as our substitute to take the penalty of our sins. This is the bedrock of the Good News from which Evangelicals take their name. The dispute considered in this paper is over the nature of the penalty that Jesus bore as a substitute, as distinct…
The pre-existence of Jesus is one of the most neglected fields of Christology and is uniquely precious to me. It says in Proverbs 8 (22-36), that wisdom is God’s master craftsman or chief architect in the creation of the universe. That it was bought forth ”before His deeds of old. That wisdom was appointed before…
Understanding liberal regimes of tolerance[1] Recent heated debates over the meaning of ‘tolerance’ and ‘discrimination’, arising in relation to Christian Unions, Catholic Adoption agencies and so on, are badly clouded by misconceptions of what the two terms imply. The debate is not fundamentally about ‘tolerance versus discrimination’ but about which ‘regime of tolerance’ each side…
Does our work have a future in eternity? This question often causes Christians to fall back into an unbiblical dualism, giving the impression that only `Christian work,’ particularly evangelism, `survives’ into the new creation. I was shocked to hear a preacher refer to his previous job at a newspaper, saying, `What’s that got to do…
Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy… The seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work. Deut 5:12-14 This commandment has at its core an assumption of work and a command to rest. God’s gift of grace is divine permission to stop work, to take a day off,…