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Dec 6, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | James Eglinton
For a moment, our MPs fell silent. Kim Leadbeater’s bill on assisted suicide had carried, and the revaluation of our values was about to begin. To cite the great atheist philosopher Nietzsche, our parliament had just decided to unchain the Earth from the Sun. Our notions of humanity and humaneness would never be the same again.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | James Eglinton
Thirty-five years ago, Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor published Sources of the Self—a dense but stunning portrait of modern Western people and the moral narratives that shape our lives. In the subsequent years, many Western cultures have kept on following lines elegantly charted in his careful work. This is most markedly so on the issue of assisted suicide, which may provide the clearest window into the disordered Western soul.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Herman Bavinck |James Eglinton |John Bolt |Cory C. Brock
An Important ThinkerHerman Bavinck was a Dutch Christian. He was born in the middle of the nineteenth century in 1854, and he died in 1921. He’s someone that people have become really interested in and aware of outside of the Netherlands in recent years through the translations of some of his theological works. He was a really important thinker. He was a brilliant theologian.
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May 1, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | James Eglinton
Could Kate Forbes serve effectively as first minister of Scotland? In The Times this week, Kenny Farquharson argued she could not. Forbes, he insists, is “the MSP for the 19th century”. In his argument, Scotland should “defend modernity” by setting a clear glass ceiling above Forbes and those like her. Before we can defend modernity, though, we must define it — and herein lies the problem.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
thetimes.co.uk | James Eglinton
Dame Prue Leith addressed Scottish audiences this week with her argument for theintroduction of euthanasia. In her view, it’s time to make this push in Scotland because “theChristian faith is fading” on this side of the border. We progressive and canny Scots areapparently less beholden to religion than our English neighbours, and more able to grasp thisparticular nettle. In presenting her case, Dame Prue talked about religion as befuddling to her imagination.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | James Eglinton |Rebecca McLaughlin |Greg Lanier |G. K. Beale
More Episodes Tim Keller and American Neo-Calvinism The Pietistic Influences on Tim Keller Embracing God as Our Heavenly Father Draw Wisdom and Strength from God’s WordIn his message at TGC Netherlands 2023, James Eglinton delves into Tim Keller’s evolving relationship with neo-Calvinism. He recommends Center Church as the primary source for understanding Keller’s mature theological voice and the biblical basis for his ministry.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
thetimes.co.uk | James Eglinton
This week, when reflecting on the SNP leadership race that she narrowly lost to Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes commented on the extent of religious illiteracy in Scottish political and public life. On this, she is not wrong. During the race, our politicians and political commentators volunteered relentless commentary on Christianity. However, in that torrent of sudden opinion, informed voices — even on basic factual details about the faith — were few and far between.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
theaquilareport.com | Cory C. Brock |James Eglinton |N. Gray Sutanto
Bavinck’s claim is that every person must honestly deal with the assumed faith necessary even in the sensory and knowledge processes themselves. Facing this reality leads directly to the necessary relationship between metaphysics and science. One needs faith as a habitus, Bavinck supposed, because it is the means of disciplining reason, lest it fall by way of the pride of life.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Cory C. Brock |James Eglinton |N. Gray Sutanto |Herman Bavinck
Faith in Pursuit of KnowledgeBecause faith aims toward knowledge—or, we might state differently, because faith seeks understanding—the emergence of Christian science is not merely a novel response to modernist positivism. Rather, it is a historic Christian practice, and a necessity of life in a fallen world. Without sin, Christian science would be wholly unnecessary.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Herman Bavinck |N. Gray Sutanto |James Eglinton |Cory C. Brock
By Herman Bavinck, Edited by N. Gray Sutanto, James Eglinton, Cory C. Brock ... Show All This Companion to Theologian Herman Bavinck’s Christian Worldview Explores Christianity’s Contributions to Higher Education
After writing his well-known book Christian Worldview, Dutch Calvinist theologian and scholar Herman Bavinck focused his attention on how the Christian faith benefits higher learning, particularly religious studies, natural sciences, and the humanities.
