More FAQs: Do I want to become the next Ernest Angley?

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My PhD work is ready to be sent to Wales and so I have some free time.

All prayers for me are appreciated!

Here are some more hypothetical FAQs. Please see previous posting.

Question: Do I want to be the next Ernest Angley? From Dad.

No, I do not. I am interested in academic philosophical theology and practical theology, and not televangelism. Besides, I do not think I could willingly wear a rug that looks like his hairdo. What would be worse, the Bob Ross afro, or the Ernest Angley ‘holy healin’ rug? Reverend Angley is looking older and within my satire and theology blog comments in the past my good friend Chucky has suggested that Angley point his hand at himself and yell ‘Be healed’!

Is there a demon of the crumpled face?

Question: Can you recommend reading on the problem of evil?

Sure, there is this blog of course and here are thirteen varied sources on theodicy/the problem of evil and the related subject of free will and determinism.

AUGUSTINE (388-395)(1964) On Free Choice of the Will, Translated by Anna S.Benjamin and L.H. Hackstaff, Upper Saddle River, N.J., Prentice Hall.

BASINGER, DAVID AND RANDALL BASINGER (1986) Predestination and Free Will, Downers Grove, Illinois, InterVarsity Press.

CALVIN, JOHN (1543)(1996) The Bondage and Liberation of the Will, Translated by G.I. Davies, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House.

EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1729)(2006) Sovereignty of God, New Haven, Connecticut, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University.
http://edwards.yale.edu/archive/documents/page?document_id
=10817&search_id=&source_type=edited&pagenumber=1.

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1994) The Many Faces of Evil, Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House.

FLEW, ANTONY (1955) ‘Divine Omnipotence and Human Freedom’, in Antony Flew and A. MacIntrye (eds), New Essays in Philosophical Theology, London, SCM.

HICK, JOHN (1970) Evil and The God of Love, London, The Fontana Library.

IRENAEUS. (c 175-185)(2005) Against Heresies, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Denver, The Catholic Encyclopedia.
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103/htm.

LEIBNIZ, G.W. (1710)(1998) Theodicy, Translated by E.M. Huggard Chicago, Open Court Classics.

MACKIE, J.L. (1955)(1996) ‘Evil and Omnipotence’ in Mind, in Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger (eds.), Philosophy of Religion, Oxford, Oxford University Press

MOLTMANN, JÜRGEN (1993) The Crucified God, Minneapolis, Fortress Press.

PLANTINGA, ALVIN.C. (1977)(2002) God, Freedom, and Evil, Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

VERMEER, PAUL (1999) Learning Theodicy, Leiden, Brill.

According to Jurgen Moltmann, it is believed that Christ will be God’s lieutenant in this godless world and bring about through his crucifixion and resurrection the promise of a better future which includes hope. Moltmann (1993: 256). The Kingdom of God was present in Christ and this has been defined in history. Moltmann (1993: 263).

Question: You seem very intense with blogging; what is your philosophy of blogging?

I have written on this issue previously. I have had struggles with sleep apnea my entire life and it was only diagnosed in 2004. I have been fatigued and unable to work as a part-time professor somewhere and work on very difficult MPhil and PhD theses at the same time. As well, I am not a preacher or pastor and have no calling in that area. Blogging allows me to provide a form of ministry to persons within and outside of the Church and provides me with public exposure. Additionally, the work I have done blogging has greatly contributed to my academic knowledge, despite the fact I have almost four degrees. Make no mistake, even the research and discussions that take place on satire and theology significantly assist me in my learning and knowledge. I hope and pray I grow closer to God through learning.

I am intense in working with these blogs, but I fully realize that the success of thekingpin68 and satire and theology is not primarily measured by traffic, links, readers, and comments; but the blogs are successful if they are pleasing to God. Lord willing, I will try to grow my blogs, and will continue to comment on other blogs, to support friendly Christian bloggers and those who are kind towards Christianity. I am becoming more busy and I will need to prioritise commenting on certain blogs, and so if you would like me to continue commenting on your blog in the long run, please link with me. Once I am working full-time, God willing, as a professor, most of my thekingpin68 articles will be based on work research, and I will not have near the time to comment on other blogs, or search for new links via BlogRush, Blogger Next Blog and Christian groups on the web.

I will not very likely join a group to link with a blog. I do not ask someone to join a group to link with me, and I do not expect to be asked to join a group to link with someone else. I also will not very likely sign up with a group that has rules on theological matters, or with how many times I post an article. If someone wants to know what my views are please do a search on this blog, or ask me. I am quite traditional and orthodox on Christian essentials. I will tend to shy away from blogs where the blog owner appears to be on an ego trip and is at all dictatorial and controlling on the blog. I want persons to think freely on this blog, and that is how I would like to be treated on other blogs.

Thanks

Russ:)