Kevin Stilley

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Theology According To Its Cultured Despisers – quotes

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
~ Robert A. Heinlein

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.
~ Thomas Paine

What has ‘theology’ ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has ‘theology’ ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that ‘theology’ is a subject at all?
~ Richard Dawkins

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
~ Henry Louis Mencken

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Summer Listening

What’s on your iPod?  It is common for people to talk about Summer Reading — what about Summer Listening?

May I make a suggestion?  How about using this summer to listen to one of the many free Seminary classes that are available for free online?  I have listed below two sources for audio from actual seminary classes that are available for free online.  You can listen to them as streaming audio or as an Mp3 download.   If you don’t find something that interests you from the list below, check with me and I can set you up with a few more sources for similar material.

Available from BiblicalTraining.org (you have to take 30 seconds to sign up in order to gain access, but don’t worry about spam as they only send out an email 2 or 3 times a year, and usually it is just to let you know that more studies have been made available):

Daniel Wallace (Dallas Theological Seminary)

Robert Stein (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)

Gerald Bray (Beeson Divinity School)

Gordon Isaac (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)

Ron Nash (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)

Peter Kuzmic (Evangelical Theological Seminary)

Timothy Tennent (Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary)

Bruce Ware (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)

Bill Mounce

Bryan Chapell (Covenant Theological Seminary)

John Piper (Bethel)

Miles van Pelt (Reformed Theological Seminary)

Douglas Stuart (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)

Paul House (Beeson Divinity School)

Frank Thielman (Beeson Divinity School)

George Guthrie (Union University)

Gary Parrett (Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary)

Craig Blomberg (Denver Seminary)

Gerry Breshears (Western Seminary)

And, these are available from Covenant Theological Seminary:

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More Bookmarks

And a few more bookmarks I want to make sure are preserved during the transition from AnnotatedBookmarks.info to AnnotatedBookmarks.com…

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Sir Fred Hoyle On Intelligent Design

As biochemists discover more and more about the awesome complexity of life, it is apparent that its chances of originating by accident are so minute that they can be completely ruled out. Life cannot have arisen by chance.
~ Sir Fred Hoyle, in The Intelligent Universe

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from th facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question…. Rather than accept the fantastically small probability of life having arisen through the blind forces of nature, it seemed better to suppose that the origin of life was a deliberate intellectual act.
~ Sir Fred Hoyle

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