“El posmodernismo es en gran manera una reacción en contra de la pasión desenfrenada del racionalismo de la modernidad. Pero muchas respuestas posmodernistas al racionalismo son una seria reacción exagerada. A muchos posmodernistas pareciera entretenerles la noción de que la irracionalidad es superior al racionalismo. En realidad, las dos maneras de pensar son absolutamente erradas e igualmente hostiles a la auténtica verdad y al cristianismo bíblico. Un extremo es tan terrible como el otro. El racionalismo debe ser rechazado sin abandonar la racionalidad. La racionalidad (el uso correcto de la razón santificada mediante la lógica sensata) nunca se condena en la Escritura. La fe no es irracional. La verdad bíblica auténtica demanda que empleemos pensamientos lógicos, claros y razonables. La verdad siempre puede ser analizada, examinada y comparada bajo la luz brillante de otra verdad, y no se deshace en algo absurdo. La verdad por definición nunca se contradice consigo misma o es ilógica. Y contrario al pensamiento popular, no es racionalismo insistir que la coherencia es una cualidad necesaria de la verdad. Cristo es la verdad encarnada y Él no se puede negar a sí mismo (2 Timoteo 2.13). Que la verdad se niegue a sí misma es una contradicción absoluta de términos; «…ninguna mentira procede de la verdad» (1 Juan 2.21). Tampoco es lógica una única categoría «griega» que es de alguna manera hostil al contexto hebreo de la Escritura. (Ese es un mito común y una gran simplificación que se expone comúnmente como apoyo del coqueteo del posmodernismo con la irracionalidad.) Frecuentemente, la Escritura emplea mecanismos lógicos como son la antítesis, los argumentos condicionales, silogismos y proposiciones. Todas estas son formas lógicas estándar y la Escritura está llena de ellas. (Por ejemplo, vea la hilera deductiva de argumentos de Pablo acerca de la importancia de la resurrección en 1 Corintios 15.12–19.)”
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John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a fifth-generation preacher who serves as a pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, and is president of The Master's College and Seminary. MacArthur received a B.A. from Los Angeles Pacific College, his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary, Litt.D. at Grace Graduate School, and D.D. from Talbot Theological Seminary. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he regularly teaches Expository Preaching at the seminary and frequently speaks in chapel.
MacArthur's pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.
John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr. is a United States evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as the President of The Master's College (and the related The Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.
Theologically, MacArthur is a conservative far-right Baptist, a strong proponent of expository preaching, a dispensationalist and a self-described Calvinist. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live as representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.
MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award. Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series (more than 1 million copies), Twelve Ordinary Men, (more than 500,000 copies), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.