I finished J. Daryl Charles’ Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things tonight, and it did not disappoint. There is plenty to digest in the coming days, but I’ll be doing so while jumping into Brent Waters’ Reproductive Technology:Towards a Theology of Procreative Stewardship as well. These next two weeks are going [...]
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June 15, 2008
Birth Control in Light of the Image of God: Part III - In The Shadows of a Technological Image
(The following post is part 3 of a multi-part series entitled “Birth Control in Light of the Image of God“, modified from a paper I wrote for an M.Div. course in Systematic Theology II, April 2008)
Technology changes the way we think about things. And reproductive technology is no different. In fact, it may indeed be [...]
June 14, 2008
Birth Control in Light of the Image of God: Part II - What They’re Saying
(The following post is part 2 of a multi-part series entitled “Birth Control in Light of the Image of God“, modified from a paper I wrote for an M.Div. course in Systematic Theology II, April 2008)
The most widespread stance on the morality of birth control in a Christian context is argued on the grounds of [...]
June 14, 2008
Birth Control in Light of the Image of God: Part I
(The following post is part 1 of a multi-part series entitled “Birth Control in Light of the Image of God“, modified from a paper I wrote for an M.Div. course in Systematic Theology II, April 2008)
“The primary characteristic of a technological society is not the things it may do with the aid of machines, but [...]
May 15, 2008
IVF and Parental Dominion IV: The Proper Dominion of Parenthood and Conclusions
(The following is the final post of a multi-part series entitled “In vitro Fertilization and Parental Dominion“, modified from a paper I wrote for an M.Div. course in Marriage, Infertility, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies, November 2007)
The Proper Dominion of Parenthood
The questions of man’s dominion in parenthood forces us to deal primarily with rejecting IVF from [...]
May 13, 2008
IVF and Parental Dominion II: Moral Arguments
(The following is part 2 of a multi-part series entitled “In vitro Fertilization and Parental Dominion“, modified from a paper I wrote for an M.Div. course in Marriage, Infertility, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies, November 2007)
I. MORAL ARGUMENTS ON THE USE OF IVF
At the root of any moral argument dealing with the use of IVF you [...]
May 7, 2008
“Marriage is a wonderful invention…”
In his Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Geoffrey Chaucer once quipped, “Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.” One’s view of marriage can be influenced by many things, but as Christians, we have the responsibility to form our view of marriage from Scripture and the principles that we find [...]
May 6, 2008
Ron Paul Coming to Louisville
Brother Paul is coming to Louisville on May 17th! If you can make it, take your copy of his latest book, and go meet the man himself! (I’ll unfortunately be in Texas…but tell him I said, “Howdy!”)
Here’s a portion of the email I got this morning from the Paul campaign:
Ron Paul will be bringing [...]
April 30, 2008
Where Erasmus Was Right: Exerting My Will
Eramus once said, “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” He said a lot of other things too, but Martin Luther made him look foolish for doing so, so I won’t address that issue today. All I wanted to tell you is that [...]
April 23, 2008
Bookstore Sales: The Crack of the Seminarian
As I stood in line at the Lifeway Bookstore today, the gentleman in front of me informed the cashier, “Bookstore sales are like crack for theology students.” Basically, we can’t pass them up…ever. lol.
And for better or for worse, he’s pretty right on. In the last week, I’ve encountered two bookstore sales and didn’t make [...]
