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Acts 2: Today's Text in Context

Bob Utley, "Acts 2" from the series Luke the Historian: Acts

Peter's Sermon at Pentecost

Bob Deffinbaugh, "Peter's Sermon at Pentecost" (Acts 2.14-36) from the series Studies in the Book of Acts

The Jefferson Bible

The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the later years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition is especially notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine. Wikipedia article.

Rudolph Bultmann

Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884 – 1976) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg. He claimed in his 1941 New Testament and Mythology, "We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament." Wikipedia article.

C.S. Lewis on Christianity and Miracles

"One is very often asked as present whether we could not have a Christianity stripped, or, as people who ask it say, 'freed' from its miraculous elements, a Christianity with the miraculous elements suppressed. Now, it seems to me that precisely the one religion in the world, or at least the only one I know, with which you could not do that is Christianity…" Link to complete essay The Grand Miracle. (Includes an excellent animated doodle).

God is Already at Work

Justin Holcomb, "How Is God Working in the World? Understanding Miracles and Providence" The Gospel Coalition, January 16, 2014

David Hume

Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Wikipedia article.

Critique of Hume

"Although Hume’s critique of miracles is one of the most influential ever written, it really doesn’t stand up well under scrutiny…" —Michael Gleghorn, "Hume's Critique of Miracles: A Christian Evaluation" Probe Ministries

Begging the Question

Hume provides a classic example of a logical fallacy called begging the question in his statement that "a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Read about "Begging the Question" Wikipedia article.

Flatland

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. Wikipedia article.

Read Flatland

If you would like to read Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland, you can do so here.

Comparing Worldviews

Matthew Hartke, "Comparing Worldviews: Christian Theism vs. Metaphysical Naturalism" Fifth Act Theology, October 13, 2012.

The Myth of Science vs. Religion

“The so-called ‘war’ between faith and learning, specifically between orthodox Christian theology and science, was manufactured… It is a construct that was created for polemical purposes.” Who invented it and why? See Justin Taylor, "Who Is to Blame For the Greatest Myth in the History of Science and Religion? These Two Guys" The Gospel Coalition, February 1, 2017

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