Knock the Little Bastards’ Brains Out: C.S. Lewis and the Cursing Psalms

April 26, 2020 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / No Comments

C.S. Lewis, hermeneutics, psalms

How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 4)

October 18, 2010 / Randal / Uncategorized / 24 Comments

Let’s begin with the question we ended off with last time: “why did God include the voice of the imprecatory […]

Carolyn Sharp, imprecatory psalms, irony, problem of evil, Psalm 137, psalms

How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 3)

October 16, 2010 / Randal / Uncategorized / 15 Comments

Does God really hate the wicked? Does he ask us to? The Psalms would seem to suggest this but C.S. Lewis offers us another approach.

Bible, C.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, imprecatory psalms, inspiration, psalms

How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 2)

October 13, 2010 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 1 Comment

We all tend to look at life through rose-colored glasses, at least rose colored where our own assumptions are concerned. […]

Bible, god-breathed, imprecatory psalms, inspiration, John Piper, psalms

How to hate your enemies: Lessons from the Psalms (Part 1)

October 9, 2010 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 5 Comments

I just got back from a conference I spoke at in Vancouver, my topics being genocide, doubt, and the imprecatory […]

evangelical, imprecatory psalms, inspiration, maledictory psalms, psalms, scripture