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Does God demand love under threat of damnation?
A reader emailed the following question to me. With permission, I’m reproducing and responding to the question here: One recurring thought I keep having that I’d be interested in reading your thoughts...
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Wayne Grudem’s Endorsement of Donald Trump and the Moral Bankruptcy of...
Popular Christian Protestant evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem just endorsed voting for Donald Trump. Grudem is an important figure in the evangelical world, not least because he is the author of...
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What does gay marriage have to do with packing Christmas boxes?
A growing number of Christian parachurch ministries are demanding that their paid employees and volunteers denounce homosexuality and gay marriage. For example, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF)...
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Being a Baptist on Reformation Day
On November 4th I attended an ecumenical conference between Catholics and Lutherans which focused on commonalities and differences in anticipation of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation (October...
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On Scientific (and Philosophical and Theological) Ignorance
Today I came across the following retweet courtesy of Secular Outpost. (I must say, Twitter is an endlessly fecund resource for blogging ideas.) Scientific ignorance pic.twitter.com/fcERsq3gvb —...
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Two New Reviews for What’s So Confusing About Grace?
The first review was posted by David Haitel at Amazon.ca. David writes: “I appreciate Dr. Rauser’s readable and conversational style as well as his strong affirmation of the truth of God’s Word. He...
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What is the Trinity? A Review
Dale Tuggy. What is the Trinity? Thinking About the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. CreateSpace, 2017, 142 pp. In one of his comedy sketches, Jim Gaffigan recalls an occasion when his young son said:...
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Good Christian song. Bad theology
When I was growing up my parents vacillated between encouraging me to listen to God-honoring sanctified music and allowing me to listen to secular music. As for me, I often found myself waffling...
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What is the most difficult Christian doctrine to defend?
In my 2008 book Faith Lacking Understanding I identify three types of objection to Christianity: Logical objections Plausibility objections Moral objections Next, as I work through the Apostles’ Creed...
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Why I’m grateful for open theism (even though I’m not an open theist)
A few years ago I heard a lady speak on the devastating experience of losing her son. As the extraordinarily painful narrative unfolded, she described how her faith had faltered on the rock of divine...
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My New Video Discussing Divine Transcendence
The post My New Video Discussing Divine Transcendence appeared first on Randal Rauser.
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Is the virgin birth an essential doctrine?
Since we’re in the midst of Advent, it would seem to be a good time to pose a question about the relative importance of the doctrine of the virgin birth. (By the way, the term is infelicitous since the...
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A Master List of Movies for exploring Theology and Philosophy
We are story-tellers by nature, and so stories speak to us with a unique power. So it should be no surprise that stories can be, among other things, marvelous catalysts for exploring important...
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Is God’s Love “Reckless”?
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve heard the song “Reckless Love” played at two different churches. It’s a catchy song and the YouTube video, posted just one month ago, already has more than a million...
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To Cremate or Not To Cremate?
A few weeks ago, I posted the following Twitter survey on cremation: Historically, the church rejected cremation in recognition of the value of the body and anticipation of the bodliy resurrection....
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I Believe on the Third Day He Rose Again . . . but what about those who don’t?
This article is an excerpt from my 2011 book You’re not as Crazy as I Think. The book includes four chapters dedicated to understanding various groups that are commonly misunderstood by evangelicals...
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Calvinism and God’s Love: A conversation with Guillaume Bignon
Guillaume Bignon. (Source: https://www.jbu.edu/news/press_releases/?id=20404) In this article I have a conversation with Guillaume Bignon about Calvinism and the concept of God’s love. Bignon is a...
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What do you think of extreme grace?
Grace is unmerited favor. What I’m calling extreme grace is the extension of unmerited favor to another person under the most extreme of circumstances. Today I posted a tweet recounting an instance of...
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The problem with a god who suffers
The doctrine of divine impassibility was widely assumed by Christian theologians throughout the history of the church. But that consensus was fractured in the twentieth century with the decline of a...
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Are theological theories falsifiable?
There is a popular, but altogether mistaken idea that scientific theories differ from theological (or philosophical) ones in that the former can be falsified but the latter cannot. The popularity of...
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