A blog by Josh de Keijzer.
The Influence of Luther in "Act and Being"
All posts are equal but some posts...
Deconstruction starts with the realization that all of reality is constructed. This is so because we can only...
What I’m going to write here may sound controversial to some. But it is necessary that I do...
I’ve been an evangelical Christian all of my life. Though I’ve drifted away from much of what goes...
Emotional and spiritual abuse in the church often results from wrong ideas about how Divine Authority functions within...
Theocracy, that form of government in which God governs a nation directly through divine command, is hot again....
One night, a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with God. Across...
Ik breek me soms het hoofd over hoe het geloof nog relevant kan zijn in onze seculaire post-christelijke...
This article is the fourth and final installment of my series on evangelicalism. The central question is whether there is faith after evangelicalism and a theology to support it. Obviously,...
Not too long ago I had an interesting conversation with a long lost friend who had become an atheist. As we reminisced long-forgotten memories we also had to talk about...
Why is it so hard to overcome racism? It is strange that in a world where most people tend to agree that racism is a bad thing, there is still...
I’ve been an evangelical Christian all of my life. Though I’ve drifted away from much of what goes under the flag of evangelicalism certain emphases of the movement will remain...
When the word theology is mentioned people either have no idea what you are talking about or they think you’re talking about something religious. This week I listened to the...
Actually, I don’t believe in predestination. We are not robots! I hate predestination and consider it one of the great heretical ideas that have crept into Christian theology, first by...
A Devotional on the Cross Imagine a cross. The cross has a vertical pole and a crossbar. It is not hard to imagine the vertical pole representing the dynamic between...
A few years ago, I saw a post on Facebook that asserted that what makes Christianity stand out from other religions is that Christian have a personal relationship with God....
This article was published a few years ago as two shorter articles at Relevant.com. Waking Up to A Non-Christian World We live in weird times. Almost every day we are...
Today I will tell a little more about what I want with this blog. It is my hope to initiate an impietist tradition. As you can perhaps guess, impietism is...
The Apostle John tells us that before Jesus was arrested he prayed the following words, part of a longer prayer: “…that all of them may be one, Father, just as...
I know this sounds outrageous, but these were the words that popped-up in my head when I heard that my sister has breast cancer: my sister is doing chemo while...
The death of Jesus Christ has been an occasion for theologians and philosophers to speculate about the end of God. With Jesus’ death on the cross, God died and this...
“He is risen!” read the headline of a newsletter of a Christian ministry I received yesterday. I was taken aback. No! I thought. He hasn’t even died yet. Heck, he...
In my previous post, I discussed my experience in evangelicalism and focused on four things that were instrumental in pushing me out. These four were: the hunger for power, the...