Institute of Biblical Studies The New Testament has many joyful directives on how to get a Christian life up and running and then keep it running: Run the race. Keep the commandments. Strive first for the kingdom. Sow to the Spirit. Follow Jesus. These are all powerful practices which set up and maintain a Christian […]
The annual Institute of Biblical Studies, sponsored by Chesterton House, Bethel Grove Bible Church, and New Life Presbyterian Church, is designed to teach from the Scriptures, challenging participants to deepen their knowledge and understanding of God’s Word. Past speakers have included Dr. D.A. Carson, Dr. Walter Kaiser, Dr. Roger Nicole, and Dr. Richard Pratt. This year's guest […]
The Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Christian Virtue Following his award-winning book Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary on Sin, theologian Cornelius Plantinga is now turning his attention to Christian virtue, the topic of this year's annual Institute of Biblical Studies. The New Testament has many joyful directives on how […]
Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable The Protestant Reformation is a signal moment in history, not least for sparking the western churches to abandon centuries of religious ritual and ceremony. Yet, as Charles Taylor’s recent A Secular Age argues, the history and motivations for this turn are not as simple as we might imagine, being inspired […]
ABSTRACT Toward the end of the 19th century, Thomas Huxley and Andrew Dickson White (the first president of Cornell University) advanced the idea that science and Christianity had been in a state of warfare for the previous 300 years. An important question is whether the history of science supports this conflict paradigm. Recent advocates of […]
Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable We will examine whether there are places in the university where science and religion might fruitfully connect and models scientists with faith have for participating in religious communities. Elaine Howard Ecklund is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University, where she also serves as a Rice Scholar of the James Baker […]
We will discuss what scientists think about religion and whether they perceive any possible areas of overlap with science. In particular we will uncover the surprising reasons scientists believe and the surprising reasons scientists do not believe. Elaine Howard Ecklund is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University, where she also serves as a Rice […]
Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable Professor Chignell will speak about the issues raised by his recent article "Whither Wheaton."You can find the "back story" of the article and links to the many articles about the article at www.whitherwheaton.org.
Institute of Biblical Studies Text: John 14. 15-23 What Every Orphan Needs to Know “I will not leave you orphaned.” Jesus Everyone is orphaned, if not literally, than metaphorically, by the pain, loss and sometimes by the devastations of life. The fear or reality of being alone needs the fulfillment of Christ’s promise that […]
