Jul 30, 2018 | Apologetics, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Colleges, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Historical Science, Messiah College, Religious Absolutism, William James |
William Trollinger At the heart of much of evangelical apologetics is the promise that you can know that you know the truth. Not think or hope or have faith that you know the truth, but know that you know the truth. In particular, you can know with certainty – it has...
Jul 23, 2018 | Apologetics, Apostles of Reason, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Donald Trump, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Historical Science, Molly Worthen, Observational Science, On Tyrrany, Presuppositionalism, Righting America, Timothy Snyder, White Evangelicals, Young Earth Creationism |
William Trollinger The fundamentalist bubble is not simply a matter of separate schools, institutions, and media. It is also a matter of separate ideas that cannot be challenged or disputed or proven untrue. It is a matter of impregnable presuppositions. At the...
Jul 19, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Bodie Hodge, Christian Right, Culture War, Ken Ham |
William Trollinger Who is the audience for fundamentalist apologetics? One place to start in answering this question is Answers in Genesis (AiG). This creationist juggernaut – with its books, videos, podcasts, speakers, school and church curricula, museum, and theme...
Mar 9, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Biblical Literalism, Bryan Osborne, Creation Science, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Righting America, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger In the end, is the point to make it possible for evangelicals not to think? Bryan Osborne of Answers in Genesis (AiG) has recently explained the organization’s purpose thusly: The revelation that the Bible’s plain history is true, that...
Jan 2, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Politics, Secularization |
by William Trollinger We kick off the New Year by heading to Washington, D.C. for the winter meeting of the American Society of Church History. At 1.30pm on Thursday we are participating in a session that is entitled “Christianity in 20th Century American Politics,”...
Dec 14, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, BioLogos, Church, Creationism, Evangelicals, Evolution, Ken Ham, Righting America |
by William Trollinger It may seem surprising, given that Answers in Genesis (AiG) self-identifies as a Christian apologetics ministry, that AiG is as interested in making war on fellow Christians as it is in attacking secularists and atheists. According to Ken Ham,...
