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worldview

What is the Flying Spaghetti Monster (and why should I care)?

August 30, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Flying Spaghetti Monster, plausibility structure, skepticism, worldview

You are a believer

August 16, 2020 by Randal

I just posted the following tweet: I find it tiresome that atheists regularly call me a "believer". Everyone's a believer in something. And if you always call *other* people believers you may not get around to reflecting on what it is that *you* believe. — Tentative Apologist (@RandalRauser) August 16, 2020 It is truly unfortunate […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: skepticism, worldview

Theology, Worldview, and the Death of My Father

June 20, 2020 by Randal

In this video, I reflect on the death of my father to Alzheimer’s in theological perspective while interacting with the eulogy I delivered at his memorial service in April 2019. The lesson: A Christian worldview should equip you to view life, suffering, and death in the light of hope, grace, and the cross. Unfortunately, the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alzheimer's Disease, death, problem of evil, suffering, theology, worldview

Are Christians Inconsistent for Rejecting Non-Christian Miracle Claims?

April 7, 2020 by Randal

In my article, “Responding to a Stale Atheist Talking Point on Miracle Claims,” I … respond to a stale atheist talking point on miracle claims. But since the article is a relatively brief amalgam of some tweets, it lacks in clarity what it makes up in brevity. However, I thought a second article that surrendered […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: miracles, plausibility structure, rationality, skepticism, worldview

Would you get on the plane?

January 10, 2020 by Randal

Yesterday, I posed the following question on Twitter: You wake up the morning of a scheduled flight from a vivid nightmare that the flight on which you’re booked crashes. You’ve never had a dream that vivid and it is terrifying, but you put it aside and drive to the airport. Once you arrive, you’re walking […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: decision theory, rationality, worldview

Everything Wrong with This Christian Worldview Chart

December 1, 2019 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christian worldview, worldview

Why do conservative Christians diminish the scourge of sexual assault?

October 19, 2019 by Randal

The Christian Post recently published my short article “Pepe Le Pew stinks: The sexual violence of Looney Tunes in a #MeToo age.” The article attracted three comments, presumably from Christian conservatives (the primary readership of The Christian Post). Not surprisingly, the comments were all critical of my moral censure of Pepe Le Pew and his […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: culture, ethics, evangelicalism, MeToo, misogyny, worldview

Your Media is Biased

October 8, 2019 by Randal

It doesn’t matter whether you get your information from Rush Limbaugh or NPR, Fox News or the BBC, Al Jazeera or RT: your media intake is, to some degree, biased. Of course, I suspect most of us know this intuitively, but we always need to be reminded because the very biases that lead us to […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: media bias, presuppositions, worldview

Is Christianity falsifiable? Does it matter if it isn’t?

July 6, 2019 by Randal

There is this all-too-common assumption among skeptics of religion that Christianity must somehow be “falsifiable” in order to be a legitimate interpretive framework for reality. The quick (and tempting) response is to say that Christianity is falsifiable: if there is no resurrected Jesus then there is no Christianity. However, many nominal Christians have continued in the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, falsification, rationality, worldview

The Ultimate Elevator Pitch Continues: Defending a Worldview in Thirty (or Ninety) Seconds

August 27, 2018 by Randal

Here’s my second (and final) list of elevator pitch worldviews. This time out, we have two entries from outside the Christian worldview courtesy of John Thomas and Jerry Rivard. In addition, we have an interesting entry from Glen Scrivener which was submitted by Mark. Scrivener’s summary is much longer — 90 seconds. Unfortunately, that’s too […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Christianity, elevator pitch, worldview

The Ultimate Elevator Pitch: Defending a Worldview in Thirty Seconds or Less

August 23, 2018 by Randal

In “The Ultimate Elevator Pitch: Can you sell your worldview in thirty seconds or less?” I invited readers to share their incisive summary statements of their worldview. I received the following responses. If you want to contribute your own pitch, email it to me at my contact page and I’ll post a follow-up article. I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, elevator pitch, worldview

An Introduction to Christian Worldview: A Review

January 13, 2018 by Randal

Tawa J. Anderson, W. Michael Clark, and David K. Naugle. An Introduction to Christian Worldview: Pursuing God’s Perspective in a Pluralistic World. (Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017). I have been teaching a seminary level Christian worldview class for fifteen years and I’m always on the lookout for new textbooks. So when I learned of An Introduction […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: An Introduction to Christian Worldview, book review, Tawa Anderson, worldview

Are Angels and Demons Part of an Obsolete Biblical Worldview?

January 6, 2018 by Randal

In his book The Biblical Cosmos (which I just reviewed here), Robin Parry points out that the Bible is written against the backdrop of an ancient cosmology which we no longer accept in the modern world. For example, biblical writers assume a flat earth and a three-storied universe with heaven located physically above the earth. They assume […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: angelology, Bible, biblical cosmology, biblical inspiration, biblical worldview, demonology, inerrancy, worldview

The Biblical Cosmos: A Review

January 2, 2018 by Randal

Robin Parry. The Biblical Cosmos: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Bible. (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2014.) Like many conservative Christians of my generation, I was raised as a young earth creationist (YEC). We prided ourselves on taking what we believed to be the most faithful and commonsense reading of the Bible. Other Christians bowed to […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: accommodation, biblical interpretation, review, Robin Parry, The Biblical Cosmos, worldview

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