In the diner, for perhaps the millionth time, Phil Connors (Bill Murray) in the movie Groundhog Day says, “Well maybe the real God uses tricks, or maybe he’s not omnipotent, he’s just been around so long he knows everything.” This assertion leads to an intriguing question. Are God’s thoughts not our thoughts only because God [...]

I have been enjoying Herman Bavinck’s Essays on Religion, Science, and Society recently.  In the first essay, Philosophy Of Religion (Faith), Bavinck addresses the philosophies of Kant and Rousseau, and the effects of the mystical/rational dichotomy found therein:
However, all these orientations, the ethical and mystical as well as the speculative, suffer from a significant one-sidedness.  [...]