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Tsommer (Tony)
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My life as a disciple of and for Jesus Christ began at the age of 7 when I accepted His life, death and physical resurrection as a God sent miracle willingly. My intellectual curiosity and development to popularize scholarship by writing about it aids in bridging the disconnect from scholar to laymen in my own life. CreationWiki is an outlet to express that process for public consumption and critique.

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Contributions

Frequenting CreationWiki since 2005, I requested to become an editor in mid-2006 allowing me to be very active within the community ever since. I hope to write concise and scholarly articles upon a range of academic disciplines from a CPOV, as well as update and edit existing articles helping make CreationWiki the premier Internet encyclopedia for biblical Christianity. What is below is a list of what I feel are my major contributions over the years. Click here to view a complete list of my edits since mid-2006. If you find any type of error within my article contributions, whether as a member or an anonymous reader of CreationWiki, feel free to leave a comment on the particular article discussion page or on my user talk page. Or, you can view Talk Archive, Talk Archive1, Talk Archive2 and Talk Archive3. Additionally if you would rather communicate off-site, direct your comments, criticisms and/or suggestions to my e-mail.

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Religion and Philosophy

History and Literature

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Book Reviews

Bibliography

Below are scholarly and popular level books that I have either researched and studied to some degree, and/or read from cover to cover. Most of the listed books I own and are in my personal library. They have been especially instrumental in the formulation of my intellectual development and therefore conviction in various positions. Many sections of articles and even whole articles above have been constructed around the books or at least parts of the books below. They are all highly recommended for an informative look and at times deep, dense and intellectually stimulating reading on controversial and technical subjects.

  • Bruce L. Gordon and William A. Dembski, The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science (Intercollegiate Studies Institute 2011)
  • Craig A. Evans, The Cambridge Companion to Jesus (Cambridge University Press 2003)
  • Adam Silverstein, Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2010)
  • Charlers Taliaferro, Paul Draper and Phillip L. Quinn, A Companion to Philosophy of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell, 2nd Edition 2010)
  • Craig S. Keener, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (Baker Academic 2011)
  • Michael Jerryson and Mark Juergensmeyer, Buddhist Warfare (Oxford University Press 2010)
  • William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology (Blackwell Publishing 2009)
  • Alex Vilenkin, Many Worlds In One: The Search for Other Universes (Hill and Wang 2006)
  • Larry W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2006)
  • Mark Allan Powell, Introducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey (Baker Academic 2009)
  • J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (IVP Academic 2003)
  • Michael Martin, The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (Cambridge University Press 2007)
  • Graham Stanton, Jesus of Nazareth in New Testament Preaching (Cambridge University Press 1974)
  • Maurice Casey, An Aramaic Approach to Q Sources for the gospels of Matthew and Luke (Cambridge University Press 2002)
  • Michael R. Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (IVP Academic 2010)
  • Quentin Smith and L. Nathan Oaklander, Time, Change and Freedom: Introduction to Metaphysics (Routledge University Press 2005)
  • Richard Bett, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge University Press 2010)
  • Craig L. Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (IVP Academic, 2nd Edition 2007)
  • Charles H. Talbert, What is a Gospel? The Genre of the Canonical Gospels (Fortress Press 1977)
  • Craig A. Evans, Ancient Texts For New Testament Studies: A Guide To The Background Literature (Hendrickson Publishing 2005)
  • Earl E. Cairns, God and Man in Time: A Christian Approach to Historiography (Baker Book House 1979)
  • Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb, Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (MIT Press 2006)
  • Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults (Daily Grail Publishing; American Edition 2008)
  • David E. Aune, Greco-Roman Literature and The New Testament: Selected Forms and Genres (Society of Biblical Literature 1988)
  • Ben Witherington, III, What Have They Done with Jesus?: Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History--Why We Can Trust the Bible (HarperOne; First Edition 2006)
  • Bruce Metzger and Bart Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration (Oxford University Press, Fourth Edition 2005)
  • E. A. Wallis Budge, From Fetish To God In Ancient Egypt (Dover Publications 1988)
  • Richard L. Rohrbaugh, The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation (Hendrickson Publishers 1996)

Favorite Quotes

1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Genesis 1:1-2 (NASB)
1For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face, 2that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself, 3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument. 5For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ. 6Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. 8See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. 9For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; 11and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; 12having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. Colossians 2:1-12 (NASB)
14Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers. 15Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 16But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness, 17and their talk will spread like gangrene. 2Timothy 2:14-17 (NASB)
I would rather read what I wrote, then hear what I spoke.
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