Ponder Anew!
David R. Larson
April 2021
April 25, 2021
Video: Francis Schaeffer on "American Evangelicalism and its Roman Catholic Allies"
Posted by David R Larson on April 25, 2021 at 12:01 PM in Abortion, Christian History, Christianity, Church, Evangelicals, Justice, Law, Religion and Culture, Religion and Politics, Roman Catholicism, Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Ceremonial Deists, Christian Libertarianism, David R. Larson, Evangelicalism, Francis Schaefer, Frank Schaefer, George Washington, January 6, Roger Williams, Theocratic Christianity, Washington D. C. Insurrection
April 23, 2021
Unlivable Beliefs of Atheistic Neo-Darwinism
Posted by David R Larson on April 23, 2021 at 10:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
April 12, 2021
Necessarily, Essentially, Neither or Both: How Does God Love the Universe [in Process Theology and Free Will Theism]?
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
David Griffin, Traditional Free Will Theism and the Ten Core Doctrines of Process Philosophy
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:50 PM in Book Reviews, Ethics, Evolution, Free Will Theism, Freedom, Moral , God, Panentheism, Pantheism, Papers, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Process Theology, Religion and Science, Reviews, Science, Theodicy, Theology | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: David Ray Griffin, free will theism, openness of God theology, process philosophy, process theology
Thoughts on "Explanation from Physics to Theology: An Essay in Rationality and Religion" by Philip Clayton [Yale University Press: 1989. ix + 230 pages]
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:45 PM in Book Reviews, Clayton, Philip, Larson, David R., Postmodernism, Religion and Science, Reviews, Science | Permalink | Comments (1)
Natural and Religious: Ellen G. White and Ann Taves' Interpretation of Dissociative Religious Experiences
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:40 PM in Ecstatic Religious Experience, Miracles, Religion and Science, White, Ellen G. | Permalink | Comments (0)
Alfred North Whitehead on Mind and Matter (Hand Out)
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:35 PM in Mind and Brain, Process Theology | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Bible as "Classic" and "Canon" in Christian Ethics (Hand Out)
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:30 PM in Bible, Hermeneutics, Holy Spirit | Permalink | Comments (0)
Body and Soul in Christian Ethics (Hand Out)
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:25 PM in Bible, Human Nature, Mind and Brain | Permalink | Comments (0)
Freedom and Determinism in Christian Ethics (Hand Out)
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Normative Theories in Christian Ethics: Four Primary Clusters (Hand Out)
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
George R. Knight on the Historical Inaccuracies in the Book "Questions on Doctrine"
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:10 PM in Christ, Church, Ethics, Human Nature, Ministry, Scripture, Seventh-day Adventism | Permalink | Comments (6)
Ellen G. White and the Amalgamation of Man and Beast: A Response to Three Proposals by TJoe Willey
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Academic Freedom and the Irreducible Pluralism of the Moral Life
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
QAnon and Religions as "Meaning Maps"
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:57 AM in Politics, Religion and Culture, Religion and Politics | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tags: David R. Larson, QAnon, Religion
Those Behind "The Veil of Ignorance" in John Rawls' "Hypothetical Original Position" Are Not Greedy Ghosts
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:55 AM in Justice | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: David R. Larson, Hypothetical Original Position, John Rawls, Justice as Fairness, Veil of Ignorance
Donald Trump's Tax Cut and John Rawls' "Difference Principle"
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: John Rawls Donald Trump Tax Cut Difference Principle
Neither "Equality of Outcome" nor "Equality of Opportunity" but "Equity ["Fairness"] of Opportunity"
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:45 AM in Economics, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0)
Answers to Questions About My Career
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: " Seventh-day Adventist, "Ecological Turn, Bioethics, Center for Christian Bioethics, David R. Larson, Loma Linda University, SDA
Four Reasons Why the Idea of "Christian" Ethics Make Sense
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:40 AM in Ethics, Medical Ethics, Relativism, Scripture | Permalink | Comments (2)
Tags: Biblical ethics, Christian ethics. descriptive ethics, ethics, metaethics, normative ethics, personal ethics
Cultural and Culinary Diversity: Some Parallels
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:40 AM in Church, Human Nature, Islam, Judaism, Ministry, Relativism | Permalink | Comments (0)
Constantinianism's Error: Not Endorsing "Sunday" but "Endorsing" Sunday
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:35 AM in Constantinianism, Sabbath | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Church and Culture, Church and Government, Church and State, Constantinianism, First-day Sabbath keepers, Lord's Day, onstantine, Religious Freedom, Religious Liberty, Sabbath, Seventh-day Sabbath keepers
Sigve Tonstad on God's Coercive or Persuasive Power in the Book of Revelation
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:35 AM in Book Reviews, Church, Eschatology, Politics, Scripture, Seventh-day Adventism, Theodicy | Permalink | Comments (1)
Against Christian Exclusivism: Papal and Protestant
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:35 AM in Christ, Church, Ministry, Missions, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0)
Coercive or Persuasive Power: Which Is Stronger?
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:30 AM in Free Will Theism, Panentheism, Theological Bits and Pieces, Wesleyanism | Permalink | Comments (0)
The "Fallacy of Inevitability" in Both Postmillennialism and Premillennialism
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:25 AM in Eschatology | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Amillennialism, Eschatology, Fallacy of Inevitability, freedom, Futurology, human choice, Kingdom of God, philosophy of history, Postmillennialism, Premillennialism, Prophesy, Second Coming of Jesus, self-determinism, Voluntarism
Perfect Fear Casts Out Love
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: David Larson, Fear and Love, I John
Why Christians Cannot Believe in Type A Miracles
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Did Loma Linda University Help Finance "Prophetess of Health?"
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
A Comment on Matthew 5:48: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:15 AM in Bible, Christ, Columns, Comments, Eschatology, Ethics, Scripture, Theology | Permalink | Comments (4)
Tags: Christian perfection, Matthew 5:48
Who Started the Branch Davidian Fires at Waco? Another Response to Kenneth G. C. Newport
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:13 AM in Medicine, Ministry, Politics, Psychology, Reviews | Permalink | Comments (1)
Is the Christian Canon "Closed?"
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
What's Really Eating Biblical Literalists
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:10 AM in Evolution, Postmodernism, Religion and Culture, Religion and Politics, Seventh-day Adventism | Permalink | Comments (0)
An Untested Public Philosophy
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:05 AM in Economics, Evil, Freedom, Moral , Politics, Postmodernism, Relativism, Religion and Culture, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science | Permalink | Comments (0)
"Believer Beware!"
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:00 AM in Christianity, Church, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism | Permalink | Comments (0)
Profiles of Stewardship in the Bible and Ecological Ethics Today
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 10:50 AM in Ecology | Permalink | Comments (0)
Are Patriarchy and Misogyny Necessarily the Same?
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 10:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Gerald Winslow's Survey of Issues in Dental Ethics Tempts Dark Thoughts About the Morality of Some Insurance Companies
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 01:27 AM in Bioethics, Ethics, Loma Linda, Medical Ethics | Permalink | Comments (0)
Mayo Clinic Ethicist Joan Henriksen Hellyer Addresses the Care of Friendless Terminally Ill Patients
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 01:25 AM in Articles, Bioethics, Ethics, Loma Linda, Medical Ethics, Medicine | Permalink | Comments (0)
Christianity and Different Types of Premodernism
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 01:21 AM in Modernism | Permalink | Comments (0)
From Codes to No Codes: Loma Linda University Alumni Postgraduate Convention Wrestles with Bioethical Themes and Cases
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 01:18 AM in Bioethics, Death and Dying, Ethics, Loma Linda, Medical Ethics | Permalink | Comments (0)
David McAvoy Chooljian, Medical Futility and the Clinical Possibility of Committing the Naturalistic Fallacy
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 01:15 AM in Bioethics, Death and Dying, Ethics, Medical Ethics, Science | Permalink | Comments (0)
Lutheran Theologion Ted Peters Addresses Transhumanism at Loma Linda University Church
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 01:15 AM in Bioethics, Christ, Eschatology, Evolution, Human Nature, Loma Linda, Religion and Science, Science, Scripture | Permalink | Comments (1)
Andy Lampkin Rejects Lethal Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 01:05 AM in Abortion, Columns, Ethics, Families, Law, Politics, Science, Stem Cell Research | Permalink | Comments (2)
Allah Agrees: It's Implantation Not Conception!
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 01:00 AM in Abortion, Columns, Ethics, Families, Law, Politics, Science, Stem Cell Research | Permalink | Comments (0)
Albert E. Reece on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:53 AM in Abortion, Columns, Ethics, Families, Law, Politics, Science, Stem Cell Research | Permalink | Comments (0)
Kyle Fedler on "Bioethics and 'Biblical Personhood'"
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:50 AM in Abortion, Columns, Ethics, Families, Law, Politics, Science, Stem Cell Research | Permalink | Comments (0)
"A Rabbi Talks with Jesus" by Jacob Neusner. Forward by Donald Harmon Akenson. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. 161 pages.
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 12:40 AM in Book Reviews, Church, Families, Judaism, Politics, Scripture | Permalink | Comments (0)
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"Sola Scriptura" is Not for Me!
Continue reading ""Sola Scriptura" is Not for Me!" »
Posted by David R Larson on April 12, 2021 at 11:15 AM in Columns, Comments, Holy Spirit, Science, Scripture, Seventh-day Adventism, Theology, White, Ellen G. | Permalink | Comments (3)
Tags: David R. Larson, Sola Scriptura