This weekend I am flying out to vancouver to see my Fiancee. Oh, i can't wait. It's always so much fun. We are planning to do a silence retreat together, taking a tour of Regent College (including going to a John Stackhouse lecture), going to the museum of anthropology as well as several art galleries, wall climbing, ahhh sooo goood. I am very excited, if you couldn't tell already. I leave thursday morning, so that will probably be the end of this blog until the tuesday i get back, at which point you will be subjected to copious amounts of writing on the banal details of my trip. Ok, well I'll try not to bore you, but I am not going to pretend i don't see through rose colored shades where Chapter (my Fiancee's nickname in places where you get those kind of things) is concerned.
Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty
Leslie Newbigin, Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt , and Certainty in Christian Discipleship. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1995. 105 pgs. In this gem of a book Newbigin takes the reader on a journey away from the idea of Cartesian certainty and towards a more proper scaffolding for thought and belief. He denies the possibility of ideal certainty with no doubt and concludes that seeking this ideal can only to skepticism (of an extreme sort) and Nihilism. The thesis of this book might best best be stated as follows: the proper confidence of a Christian is not the possession of indubitable knowledge but the confidence of one who has heard and answered God's call of 'Follow me.' In order to demonstrate this point, Newbigin first examines three 'paths' whose titles, which are his first three chapter titles, seem somewhat counter-intuitive. In the first chapter, 'Faith as the Way to Knowledge,' Newbigin argues that if knowledge, and God, are ultim
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