“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.”
Isaiah 60:1-3 (NIV)
In the Aberdeen Divinity Library
Name: Kevin Davis
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA or Charlotte, NC
Education:
B.A (Religious Studies), University of North Carolina, Charlotte
M.Th. (Systematic Theology), University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Interests: modern dogmatic theology, the history of philosophy, old movies, new movies, good music, super mario bros.
Theological Perspective: A mixture of evangelical personalism (Emil Brunner, P. T. Forsyth, Ulrich Zwingli), Reformed dialectic (Karl Barth), Reformed scholasticism (Herman Bavinck), and la nouvelle théologie (Hans Urs von Balthasar).
Philosophical Perspective: Modern philosophy began with Descartes and inevitably led to Kant, which inevitably led to Nietzsche and the end of philosophy. If philosophy is to exist apart from Christ, it must be naive and speculative, like Plato. Evil trumps Plato; Jesus wins.
M.Th. dissertation research: John Henry Newman’s moral epistemology in the assent of faith. Advisor: Professor Francesca Murphy.
Email: kevindavis.nc [at] gmail.com
King's College Chapel, University of Aberdeen
Kevin:
I came upon your blog via your comment on Beggars’s All. I was very impressed with your charity and straight forward answering of the assertions that were put forth there. I commend you and suspect God will use you greatly regardless of which side of the Tiber you are on. Thanks for setting an amazing example in the blogosphere, where we often think we no longer are constrained to love our enemies or those who disagree with our version of the truth.
Kevin,
Rebekah and family are doing great. Rebekah and I have a one year old daughter, and another daughter on the way (mid-June). Rebekah graduated UNCC last spring as a Religious Studies major (Senior Seminar paper was about the invalidity of women priests in the CC, and its underlying femminist theology…she didn’t gain much favor with the professors on this, as you can imagine). Are you in contact with Fr. Martin? How is your family? Are they still at Hickory Grove? Rebekah’s father has relocated to Midway Baptist in Raleigh.
Apologia Pro Vita Sua is a superb book!
Kevin:
I have been consistently delighted with and enriched by your posts ever since a random google hit first led me to your blog. I have been blessed by what you have posted for yourself, and have been encouraged by how broad a spectrum of believers have gathered at your online “salon.” It is a privilege to be one of the commenters on your site.
Just wanted to say as a seminarian at St. Mary’s in Baltimore, I thoroughly enjoy your posts as they accessibly summarize grand theological concepts.
It’s good to see pictures of Aberdeen, I had the privelege of visiting a friend there when during a semester at UCC (Cork).
Thanks, Chad. May God bless you in your training.