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February 25, 2010
New in the Bookstore: Jesus Camp (DVD) (2006) by Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady (Directors).
Academy Award nominated for Best Documentary Feature, Jesus Camp, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (directors of the critically acclaimed The Boys of Baraka), follows Levi, Rachael, and Tory, to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids On Fire" summer camp in Devil's Lake North Dakota where kids as young as six are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in "God's army." The film follows these children at camp as they hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled in how to "take back America for Christ." Jesus Camp is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future.
February 22, 2010
Added A Critical Examination of Mark R. Nowacki's Novel Version of the Kalam Cosmological Argument (2008) by Arnold T. Guminski to the Theistic Cosmological Argument page under Arguments for the Existence of a God in the Modern Documents section of the Secular Web Library.
This article examines Nowicki's novel version of the Kalam Cosmological Argument (N-KCA), and finds it seriously flawed. The N-KCA purportedly shows the factual impossibility of a denumerably infinite set of coexisting concrete entities; and that there would be such a set were an infinite temporal series of events to obtain because each existing substance bears its own necessarily permanent temporal marks and those of its ancestors. Nowicki, professing the A-theory of time, nevertheless maintains that truth-makers of past-event propositions are not tensed facts, according to some correspondence theory of truth, but rather the temporal marks borne by existing substances.
February 21, 2010
New in the Bookstore: The Bible's Buried Secrets (DVD) (2008) by NOVA.
An archaeological detective story puzzles together clues to the mystery of who wrote the Bible, when and why. In this landmark two-hour special, viewers are taken on a fascinating scientific journey that began 3,000 years ago and continues today as NOVA travels to several excavations of ancient cities in the Near East, filming newly discovered remains, and interviewing leading archeologists and biblical scholars.
February 10, 2010
New in the Kiosk: Apophatic Theology: the Apologia of Last Resort (2010) by Gil Gaudia
Apophatic theology is yet another attempt to explore the meaning of God, in this case, by negation—to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the arcane being that believers call God. At first blush this doesn't seem like too bad an idea, since all previous attempts to explain God by telling us what He is and how He does operate leads most intelligent people to roll their eyes in disbelief at the twisted logic in which the explainers engage.
February 7, 2010
New in the Kiosk: Doubting Jesus' Resurrection (2010) by Kris Komarnitsky
Komarnitsky critiques the efforts of Christian apologists such as Dr. N. T. Wright, J. P. Holding, and Lee Strobel, to support the historicity of Jesus' alleged resurrection, and then offers his own explanation for the empty tomb and post-Resurrection appearances traditions.