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  • What’s Your Worldview Review @TGC

    James N. Anderson. What’s Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life’s Big Questions. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, January, 2014. 112 pp. $10.99. On Wednesday over at The Gospel Coalition, my review of What’s Your Worldview posted. Here’s an excerpt: Ronald Nash once said, “One of the more important things a philosopher can do for others is to help…

  • Philosophy Friday: Let’s Talk About Logic

    I’ve been going back and reading through my long abandoned philosophy series. Some of it aged well. Some did not. I was definitely doing a lot of thinking at loud, as opposed now, when I mostly think to myself. In thinking about thinking, I thought it might a good time to think out loud about…

  • Covenantal Apologetics: Principles & Practice in Defense of Our Faith

    K. Scott Oliphint, Covenantal Apologetics: Principles & Practice in Defense of Our Faith. Wheaton: Crossway, July 2013. 288 pp. Paperback, $19.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the review copy! K. Scott Oliphint is professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. If you’ve been reading for a while, you might remember me reviewing his…

  • Christianity & World Religions

    Derek Cooper is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology, Associate Director of the D.Min program, and Director of the LEAD M.Div program at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Somewhere, in the midst of all of that, he has managed to put together a fine book: Christianity & World Religions: An Introduction to The World’s…

  • Logic: A God-Centered Approach

    First off, you’ve gotta admit this is a pretty incredible cover. Logic textbook or not, there’s just something about this design that just draws you in. This is perhaps a good thing since most people won’t take a formal class on logic at any point in their education, much less read a textbook on it.…

  • God’s Not Dead: Evidence For God in An Age of Uncertainty

    Rice Broocks is the co-founder of the Every Nation family of churches, and is senior minister of Bethel World Outreach Church in Nashville.  He did his masters work at RTS and has a doctorate in missiology from Fuller. In God’s Not Dead: Evidence For God in An Age of Uncertainty Broocks is writing to three types of…

  • Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers & Skeptics Find Faith

    Alister McGrath is professor of theology, ministry, and education and head of the Centre for Theology, Religion, and Culture at King’s College, London, and president of the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics. He’s written more books than I care to list here, but this is actually the second recently published book of his that I’ve…

  • Quotes From Intro to Systematic Theology by Cornelius Van Til

    On Monday, I mentioned how helpful I’ve found Cornelius Van Til’s Introduction to Systematic Theology. I first read it during my first year in seminary. Recently, I’ve been re-reading it in Logos and taking advantage of digital highlighting. It’ll be interesting to compare what I highlighted then and now. In the meantime, I thought I’d…

  • Why You (Usually) Can’t Persuade Someone They’re Wrong

    I recently finished Mapping The Origins Debate by Gerald Rau (which is excellent by the way). My review is forthcoming, but I wanted to go ahead an highlight a hugely important point that Rau makes, almost as an afterthought. After presenting 6 models of the beginning of everything (not one by one, but through different…

  • 8 Criteria For Worldview Evaluations

    In his Christian Apologetics (which remember is under $5 on Kindle), Douglas Groothuis presents 8 criteria for evaluating worldviews. Though not a presuppositionalist himself, and he explains (unconvincingly) why on 62-64, this kind of worldview evaluations is very presuppositional. According to Groothuis, “the best method of apologetic reasoning is hypothesis evaluation and verification” (49). Toward that…