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		<title>Christians Ought Not to be Called Resident Aliens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Resident Aliens&#8217;, co-authored by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon, was published in 1989 by Abingdon Press, and is still relevant. But so is the critique that can be leveled against it. The book constitutes a powerful message to the church to be true to its calling. The authors show how on both ends of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=473&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apocataphatically speaking . . .</title>
		<link>http://apologiachristi.com/2012/02/07/apocataphatically-speaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better not to speak of the unspeakable except what you are unfathomably not unthinkable unthought of unimaginable I begin to think but the mere thought of you initiates an explosion that exceeds my capacity to contain You, non-construct of my feeble attempt make yourself known without words leaving me exasperated without tears left to shed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=466&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Plurality of Truth, Mortal Sin or Divine Blessing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Missio Dei]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Franke&#8217;s Manifold Witness, the Plurality of Truth is a bold attempt to recast Christian faith, Church and theology in a mold that is in accord with the best postmodernist deconstruction has to offer while remaining true to the exclusivist character of the Gospel of Christ. Franke argues against a monolithic understanding of truth and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=442&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does a metaphorical Jesus follow from a metaphorical Adam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ancient Near East]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hermeneutics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical jesus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John H. Walton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal theology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently asked me whether nothing stops us from seeing Jesus as a metaphor when we embrace a metaphorical understanding of Adam and Eve. This is a valid question. A typical case of the slippery slope. I have been there too and in certain ways will always remain at a place of ambiguity toward the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=437&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modernism, postmodernism and then what?</title>
		<link>http://apologiachristi.com/2012/01/06/modernism-postmodernism-and-then-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of my essay &#8216;How The West Was Lost&#8217; on the disappearance of Christianity from the West I propose a few recommendations for the way theology should move forward. Christian theology, I argue, has not been able to stem the tide of secularization and has not been able to adequately answer and change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=434&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh Start</title>
		<link>http://apologiachristi.com/2012/01/01/fresh-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://apologiachristi.com/?p=426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been around for a while. Then I locked it up for a period in which I did not feel like writing much. But since after all Apologia Christi is a great name for a blog, I should actually do something about it. And besides 2012 has just started. However, when I consider the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=426&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A mosque at Ground Zero?</title>
		<link>http://apologiachristi.com/2010/08/29/a-mosque-at-ground-zero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auschwitz concentration camp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Obama expressed his approval for the building of a mosque on Ground Zero. Who wouldn&#8217;t support such a fantastic initiative? What is more beautiful in the context of the fraternization of the world religions than to have declared enemies dig holes in each others garden? I could come up with a few other worthy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=396&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A quick thought on the impact of postmodernism on Christian Apologetics</title>
		<link>http://apologiachristi.com/2010/08/16/a-quick-thought-on-the-impact-of-postmodernism-on-christian-apologetics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does postmodernism herald the end of Christian apologetics as we know it? Does the argument for God&#8217;s existence go out of the door as &#8216;so yesterday&#8217;? I think we need to distinguish between cultural postmodernism and philosophical postmodernism. The latter is self-refuting in that it absolutely claims that absolute claims to truth do not exist, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=392&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the Week [10.10]</title>
		<link>http://apologiachristi.com/2010/08/10/poem-of-the-week-10-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem on the ultimate surrender in the face of what comes at you through life. Don&#8217;t try to maintain control, but surrender to the One who holds past, future and present in his hands and for Whom human free will, divine foreknowledge and divine predestination converge. Did you know He has a plan for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=389&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the hell…? [3] – Do we need one?</title>
		<link>http://apologiachristi.com/2010/07/21/why-the-hell%e2%80%a6-2-%e2%80%93-do-we-need-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first question that comes to mind when thinking about hell is &#8216;why the hell&#8217; it needs to exist. It hardly helps in convincing people of their sin; it seems not too helpful a tool to bring the &#8216;Good News&#8217; to a postmodern world. An eternal conscious punishment seems rather harsh. Or better: unbearably and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apologiachristi.com&amp;blog=6437779&amp;post=374&amp;subd=apologiachristi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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