Introduction This note demonstrates how John Wesley’s prevenient grace maintains total depravity without falling into Pelagianism. The first section sets the framework for understanding the uniqueness of Wesley’s prevenient grace by describing positions of the reformed and eastern traditions regarding Read more…
As an exclusivist, I believe that specific knowledge of the person and work of Jesus Christ (special revelation) is necessary for salvation (reconciliation between sinners and the Living, Holy, Triune God). I believe that the nature of faith (through which Read more…
Santiago Zabala wrote the introduction to a book by Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo (Postmodern philosophers) called The Future of Religion. This Note is a critique of Zabala’s introduction. Santiago Zabala’s introductory chapter titled, “A Religion Without Theists or Atheists” is telling. Zabala’s Read more…
The First of Buddhism’s “Four Noble Truths” is, “that composite things (existing phenomena) are, by their very nature, in a state of dukkha. There no no precise English equivalent for thatterm, which encompasses dissatisfaction, anxiety, frustration, suffering, pain and misery” (Nigosian, Read more…
Any linguistic analysis of literature is framed by presuppositions regarding the nature and function of language. The discipline of stylistics, which is a “sub-discipline of linguistics that is concerned with the systematic analysis of style in language,”[1] typically presupposes generative Read more…