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Philip Yancey

Pew Sitting as Performance

December 20, 2017 by Randal

As a seminary professor I’m very adept at judging church performance: I’m at home formulating detailed critiques of the exegetical and homiletical quality of a preacher’s sermon and the relevance of the service’s liturgical form; I’m even happy to opine on the quality of the music … an area rather distant from my formal education. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: church, consumerism, ecclesiology, Philip Yancey

The Question that Never Goes Away: A Review

August 29, 2016 by Randal

Philip Yancey. The Question that Never Goes Away (Zondervan, 2014).  Philip Yancey launched his illustrious publishing career close to forty years ago with the publication of Where is God When it Hurts? In his aptly titled 2014 book The Question that Never Goes Away Yancey returns to the enduring question of evil and suffering: why?  Three events in 2012 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: pastoral theology, Philip Yancey, problem of evil, providence, theodicy

God in the terrifying image of a jilted lover

March 19, 2016 by Randal

Aristotle famously referred to deity as the unmoved mover. And countless Christian theologians have agreed with him as they have described God as impassible such that he is not acted upon by creation. As the Westminster Confession succinctly put it, God is “without body, parts, or passions.” What this means is that God does not […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: God, impassibility, love, Philip Yancey

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