Kehinde Wiley is a classically trained African American painter who attempts to remake the western canon of art. Since the history of European art predominantly features people with fair skin, Wiley attempts to rectify this perceived injustice by copying the Old Masters and replacing light-skinned people with dark-skinned people. In […]
Author: Scarlett
Art and Apologetics
Happy New Year! I have written a small book for Ratio Christi on art and apologetics. Here is the description: In Arts and Apologetics, human creativity takes center stage in the defense of the Christian faith. Through a collection of arguments from the arts and aesthetic experience, the wonders of […]
“He Gets Us”: A Failed Christology
The eternal Son assumed a human nature. This is a profound component of the doctrine of Christ. Who was Jesus Christ? God, man, or both? The branch of theology which studies Christ is called Christology, and the position of the historic, orthodox Christian faith comes from the Council of Chalcedon […]
A Lewisian Education: Fully Human at Home
Young C.S. Lewis pled with his father, ‘Please take me out of this as soon as possible…’[1] It was March 1914 and Lewis was referring to the public school he was attending, and at this early stage, we see seeds of kinship between Lewis’ views of education and modern Christian […]
Review: Hollywood Heroes
Apologetics goes to the movies! Grab some popcorn and learn how Hollywood’s most memorable heroes shine the spotlight on the ultimate hero of the universe, Jesus Christ. In their new fast-paced work, Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God seasoned apologists Frank Turek (Crossexamined.org) and his son, Captain Zach […]
Corn and Strawberries, A Lesson on Induction
“If God takes human dignity and freedom seriously, then when man decides to plant corn, he won’t bring up strawberries.”[1] I heard this quote in a lecture recently and I began to think of ways to help our children think more deeply as we plant seeds down into the soil […]
The Love of Imitating Nature
Q: Why do we love to imitate nature? A: Because we are created in the image of the Creator of Nature and experience joy as we create after the pattern of our Creator. Psalm 104:24 O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all (Paper […]
Jesus as Imago Hominis (Image of the Man)
In the early pages of the Bible, we read an ineffable profundity: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27) It’s difficult to say how much effort and ink has gone into traversing this […]
On Predication and Peaches, or How God Makes Simple Sentences Possible
The Dutch apologist, Cornelius Van Til, made a fascinating apologetic argument from our use of simple sentences. He said every time we predicate we presuppose the God of the Bible. What does that mean? In grammar class, we learned that a predicate is anything that can be said about a […]