Jeffrey Thayne Many of us compartmentalize our lives in a way that would seem strange to scholars of past centuries.
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Meaningful Antecedents
Jeffrey Thayne Although agency and indeterminism are often equated in popular rhetoric, the two philosophical concepts are very different things.
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Jeffrey Thayne This post may seem a little basic, but I believe that there are two terms that, if understood
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Jeffrey Thayne Agency is arguably one of the most crucial doctrines of the restored gospel. Richard Williams, in his paper
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Jeffrey Thayne Science often parades itself as the search for truth, or the the search for an understanding of what
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Jeffrey Thayne Today, I would like to consider two different genres of fiction: fantasy and science fiction. The way in
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Jeffrey Thayne Nathan has been writing an excellent series on two very different paradigms of human intent; he has contrasted
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Jeffrey Thayne In recent posts, I have responded to the claim that God’s embodiment limits or constrains God’s power over
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Jeffrey Thayne I have no desire to dissuade anyone from reading this post, but the contents of this post are
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We live in a very different intellectual climate than those who wrote the scriptures. Our philosophy and our academic climate
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