I wanted to mention the Spiritualist Worldview as a serious competitor to Christian Theism generally and, in particular, to New Testament Christianity. But, moving past this challenge, I want to discuss what has become a wildly pervasive philosophical movement known as “Postmodernism.” Modernity, generally speaking, is understood in the West as the naturalism that developed since the 1600s in the Enlightenment. Postmodernism is a wholesale rejection of the almost total deification of the scientific method within modernity.
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Even a cursory reading of Paul’s epistles to Timothy and Titus makes it clear that their work involved a wide variety of communicative purposes. They were to instruct, teach, rebuke, urge, charge, guard the truth, remind, rightly handle the word, correct opponents, convince, exhort, and so forth. The list is long. It should not be assumed now, any more than then, that all of these activities are restricted to the Sunday sermon. . . .
Read MoreThrough Life to Its End
Difficult end-of-life issues confront all people including Christians. While some unbelievers may seek answers only from secular, naturalistic theories of medicine, Christians believe that God has provided important information about health, illness, and death. God has spoken through our nature as human beings, through Jesus His Son, and through special revelation in the Bible.1 By introducing two classic cases, this fourth article discusses the significance of trusting a Christian worldview when dealing with end-of-life issues in bioethics. An appropriate Christian response to such cases does not always require us to cite Bible passages to those around us, but we should always benefit from such passages and live as godly people following the teaching and example of Jesus. Christian patients, physicians, and other caregivers can all be empowered by their biblical worldview.
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