An ordained Baptist pastor with earned graduate, and post-graduate degrees in theology and apologetics, I espouse an evangelical, baptistic, free church tradition.
Philosophically, I am a Reformed Epistemologist in the footsteps of Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, augmented by theistic evidentialism in the shadow of Gary Habermas. My personal apologetic methodology is foundationally rooted in Reformed Epistemology (RE), but extends through RE and includes a form of theistic evidentialism to augment the strictly negative apologetic aspects of RE. My stance is that theistic evidentialism, in a weak sense, informs and grants additional warrant to my reformed epistemological presuppositions.
My theological starting point is that God exists, that He endowed mankind with some indefinable characteristics of himself (of which the sensus divinitatis may simply be a subset), and that the noetic effects of sin distorted those undefined, Divinely-bestowed characteristics to such an extent that the natural man ignores, suppresses and denies God’s existence. The sole recourse from one’s self-judged (John 3:18) death sentence (Gen. 2:17) is in confessing Jesus as Lord, and believing that God raised him from the dead (Rom. 10:9-10).
Jeff Connell
Vanceboro, NC