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Book Notes: The Life of John Calvin by Theodore Beza
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Friday, December 5, 2008. The Life of John Calvin by Theodore Beza. The Life of John Calvin. I'll go out on a limb and summarize Calvin's life, according to Beza, as a pattern. When a theological error arose Calvin contradicted it with a letter, sermon or book. As a result, his name and character were slandered but the heresy died down, if only for a season. Add periodic illnesses and you've got a quick glimpse of the shape of his life. Paul speaks, and the sixteenth century hears. The conversation b...
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Book Notes: Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008. Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead. Practical vs. Abstract Thinking. I have been reading Alfred North Whitehead's Introduction to Mathematics. He explains the value of mathematics in its ability to speak generally about particulars. In ch 2 he shows how variables do the same for numbers, they can express generalizations about numerical relationships. Here is Whitehead's conclusion:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Life of John Calvin by Theodore Beza.
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ChristianWorldview.com Essays: The Cross both our example and our strength
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The Cross both our example and our strength. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free from the law of sin and death. In the preface of his commentary on Romans. Luther has this to say on the relationship between faith and keeping the law:. St Paul . . . calls as witness David, who says in Psalm 32 that a person becomes just without works but doesn't remain without works once he has become just. Are you so foolish? As the ...
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ChristianWorldview.com Essays: September 2008
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What was Jesus' view of the world? Jesus' view of the world is built upon a foundation of core truths. The greatest of these is that God exists. A specific kind of God exists. God is personal. God is not a gray-haired grandfather in the clouds as Michelangelo painted. Nor is God merely a blind force or law of physics. God is an infinite, invisible, conscious, thinking being. These two truths are the brick and mortar of Jesus' view of the world. God does not abandon us in our own contempt and immorality&#...
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ChristianWorldview.com Essays: Why am I here?
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Why am I here? Someone has said “the purpose of life is a life of purpose”! What thinking person is satisfied with an arbitrary purpose? How os that any different from Nazis making prisoners move a pile of rock from one end of the camp, only to move it back the next day, ad infinitum? In contrast to assigning arbitray meaning to life, John Henry Newman wrote:. Everyone who breathes, high and low,. Educated and ignorant, young and old,. Man and woman, has a mission, has a work. Rear a family and die.
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ChristianWorldview.com Essays: What was Jesus' view of the world?
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What was Jesus' view of the world? Jesus' view of the world is built upon a foundation of core truths. The greatest of these is that God exists. A specific kind of God exists. God is personal. God is not a gray-haired grandfather in the clouds as Michelangelo painted. Nor is God merely a blind force or law of physics. God is an infinite, invisible, conscious, thinking being. These two truths are the brick and mortar of Jesus' view of the world. God does not abandon us in our own contempt and immorality&#...
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ChristianWorldview.com Essays: July 2008
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To whom shall we go. Pothagoras, Epicurus, Socrates, Plato, these are the torches of the world; Jesus is the light of day.". Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables. 8221; Peter responded, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John 6:68). In this manner, Jesus stands head and shoulders above any other source of knowledge or person (including ourselves). His wisdom is, by all accounts profound. If we were to line up all the great philosophers, scientists and sages next to ...8221;...
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ChristianWorldview.com Essays: June 2008
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Why am I here? Someone has said “the purpose of life is a life of purpose”! What thinking person is satisfied with an arbitrary purpose? How os that any different from Nazis making prisoners move a pile of rock from one end of the camp, only to move it back the next day, ad infinitum? In contrast to assigning arbitray meaning to life, John Henry Newman wrote:. Everyone who breathes, high and low,. Educated and ignorant, young and old,. Man and woman, has a mission, has a work. Rear a family and die.
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ChristianWorldview.com Essays: . . . to whom shall we go
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To whom shall we go. Pothagoras, Epicurus, Socrates, Plato, these are the torches of the world; Jesus is the light of day.". Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables. 8221; Peter responded, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John 6:68). In this manner, Jesus stands head and shoulders above any other source of knowledge or person (including ourselves). His wisdom is, by all accounts profound. If we were to line up all the great philosophers, scientists and sages next to ...8221;...
