Practical "Tinfoil Hat" Theology For Those Distressed By Current Events

Anselm’s Revenge: Our human sense of meaning, value, and purpose is either real or an illusion - a software program that is the result of a purposeless evolutionary process of natural selection that renders all human inquiry and discussion moot.

Mythology: An aspect of all cultures that - as with other aspects of culture - provides the foundation and context for meaning, value, and purpose in human and natural history.

Salvation: Regards rescue from the militant intimidation of death assailing individual and cultural consciousness throughout their lives, culminating in actual biological or historical death. Salvation is primarily about THIS world.

Creation and Fall: The doctrine states that all that is, is essentially good while, at the same time, experienced by us as broken, perverted, misdirected, corrupt - fallen but not essentially evil.

Sin: Fantasies of escape from death, power over death, or a negotiated “peace” with death first capture and then destroy human life and culture.

Idolatry: The biblical term for the human dilemma: its signs are enslavement and a demand for human sacrifice.

Gospel: The good news of God in Christ regards the free gift of salvation.

A Sovereign Implicit Witness: God in Christ is the foundation of all human experience and not constrained by explicitly Christian culture and can be encountered, shared, and responded to in any culture or religion.

Normative Explicit Witness: The Bible and the mainstream Judeo-Christian tradition through history are the normative and inspired EXPLICIT witnesses to God in Christ NOT inerrant science and history texts.

Evangelism: Christians, Christian institutions, Christian culture explicitly witness to the salvation of God in Christ but neither constrains nor controls it.