Papers

A term paper on Ephesians 2 for a hermeneutics course (2024)

Armed Revolution as Apologetic in the Brave New World? Reexamining the Upper Limits of Resistance by the Church to the State with a Focus on the Disagreement Between Francis Schaeffer and Norman Geisler (2023)

And the Word was God: An Examination of Panentheistic, Pantheistic, and Theistic Interpretations of Logos and Theos in John’s Gospel (2023)

What is the Proper Relationship between Faith and Reason? (2019)

A 41-page examination of reason, logic, faith, brain, mind and more from scientific, philosophical, and biblical perspectives.

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS GOD?

Preferred Link1 redirects to Academia.edu. Secondary download link here. A 63-page examination and evaluation of panentheistic God-World Models which was submitted to VIU as a research paper for an MA program. This is also an expansion of my much shorter chapter “What is Panentheism and its Fatal Flaw?” in the book The Comprehensive Guide to Apologetics (Harvest House, 2021).

The Eight Spectres of Karl Marx

This was published on http://normangeisler.com/marxism-2 in 2015. It was then revised slightly and published in the 2017 issue of the Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics. It is awaiting another revision and inclusion in the chapter on “Marxist Humanism” in the forthcoming (projected 2022) book Is Man the Measure: An Evaluation of Contemporary Humanism.

Did Roman Christians Detect the Influence of Roman Historiography in Matthew 27:45-54?

This was originally written as an article at http://DefendingInerrancy.com and then was later included in the book Vital Issues in the Inerrancy Debate.

How to Know God

This was an apologetic-evangelistic booklet I originally wrote for http://normangeisler.com and which Norm Geisler redacted a bit.

Dead as Lost: Re-evaluation of the Evangelical Doctrine of “Spiritual Death”

This was a research paper I submitted to VIU for my MA-level course in hamartiology and soteriology.

Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and Technocracy: The Gospel of Guided Human Evolution by Science and through Technology

I presented this paper in a breakout session at the 2020 National Conference on Christian Apologetics.

Towards an Evangelical Statement on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies

This was the paper I presented at the 2017 meeting of the International Society of Christian Apologists.

Apologetics, Inerrancy, and Apostasy and Zombies

This was the first paper I submitted in 2015 to VIU for my first Master’s Degree course in bibliology and prolegomena. It was also the first paper I ever presented to an audience of scholars–the 2016 meeting of the International Society of Christian Apologists. (Recording on Youtube here.)

Book Review of Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus (2015, 2019).

Preferred Link1 redirects to Academia.edu. Secondary download link here: Link2. This review of the first film and book from Thinking Man Media in the Patterns of Evidence series originally appeared in the 2015 issue of the Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics. This version has been expanded slightly with some new material in 2019 to comment upon the second film in the Patterns of Evidence series, the Moses Controversy.

Book Review of Vital Issues in the Inerrancy Debate (link redirects)