I applaud both Meyer and Kingsnorth in their approaches to apologetics. People come to faith in all sorts of ways, sometimes even illogically. God approaches us through both mind and heart.
I'm not sure why you say that Orthodoxy has no apologetic tradition. The Church Fathers are the basis of all Orthodox theology and they are chock-full of apologetics.
When it comes to belief in God, I think all the arguments for His existence that can be made have been made. The question is how can we convince the broader culture that faith in God is the right thing in which to place faith?
People will believe what they want to believe. It took me longer than it should have taken me to realize that. My own conversion almost came as a surprise to myself. It still does, some days.
Hats off to Meyer and Kingsnorth; they're doing yeoman's work.
Dr Michael Heiser (who recently died of pancreatic cancer) has some video on YouTube regarding the fact that Orthodox Biblical study has some merit because being Eastern their source material is naturally Greek & Aramaic where Augustine and other church fathers were basing their Biblical knowledge on Latin. Heiser was an Evangelical scholar but he has an interesting point. Some Orthodox Biblical interpretation does clear up some confusion when I read the Bible as a Western Protestant.
Would be curious for your thoughts on recent series of short (by 2023 standards) conversations between John Vervaeke and an eastern Bishop. Definitely some anti-western jargon but for most part a lucid and (to my admittedly untrained ear) philosophically rigorous account of Eastern resources for alleviating the meaning crisis.0
So looking forward to the rest of this series!
Brilliant.
I applaud both Meyer and Kingsnorth in their approaches to apologetics. People come to faith in all sorts of ways, sometimes even illogically. God approaches us through both mind and heart.
Fascinating. Is this whole series meant to be a intellectual cumulative case for Theism then?
I'm not sure why you say that Orthodoxy has no apologetic tradition. The Church Fathers are the basis of all Orthodox theology and they are chock-full of apologetics.
When it comes to belief in God, I think all the arguments for His existence that can be made have been made. The question is how can we convince the broader culture that faith in God is the right thing in which to place faith?
People will believe what they want to believe. It took me longer than it should have taken me to realize that. My own conversion almost came as a surprise to myself. It still does, some days.
Hats off to Meyer and Kingsnorth; they're doing yeoman's work.
Dr Michael Heiser (who recently died of pancreatic cancer) has some video on YouTube regarding the fact that Orthodox Biblical study has some merit because being Eastern their source material is naturally Greek & Aramaic where Augustine and other church fathers were basing their Biblical knowledge on Latin. Heiser was an Evangelical scholar but he has an interesting point. Some Orthodox Biblical interpretation does clear up some confusion when I read the Bible as a Western Protestant.
Would be curious for your thoughts on recent series of short (by 2023 standards) conversations between John Vervaeke and an eastern Bishop. Definitely some anti-western jargon but for most part a lucid and (to my admittedly untrained ear) philosophically rigorous account of Eastern resources for alleviating the meaning crisis.0