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  • 6 Big Books I’m Plodding Through This Year

    I learned my lesson from last year. Instead of 13 books I’m planning to read through, here are 6 books on the larger side that I’m “plodding” through: Foundations of Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal by Eric L. Johnson A Puritan Theology and Meet the Puritans Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith…

  • Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective

    Every now and then (twice now in my case) someone else writes a book that as soon I start reading, I wish/feel like I should/could have written it. I had the experience last year with Lit! and had it again this summer with Popologetics. Even without the Chuck Klosterman reference in the introduction, I would…

  • Warfield and Triperspectival Apologetics

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] Up until this year, I hadn’t really done any kind of lengthy interaction with B. B. Warfield. As much you can envision such a thing, I’ve metaphorically danced around his ideas (go ahead and picture that) but haven’t really read much of his writings. This…

  • Thesis Published In Antithesis

    The first part of my thesis was published by In Antithesis which is “an online journal focused on the Presuppositional/Covenantal variety of apologetic methodology.” My thesis is titled Hollywood, Geneva, and Athens: A Reformed Philosophy of Film. I use Calvin’s aesthetics, Van Til’s apologetics, and Frame’s triperspectivalism to sketch out a way of watching movies. You…

  • Reading Group Warmup: Apologetics to the Glory of God

    To get the ball rolling on the reading group idea I mentioned last Friday, we’re reading John Frame’s Apologetics to the Glory of God. Part of this is because it’s a shorter book, and a good introduction to apologetics in a presuppositional vein. The other reason is that we’ll be reading John Frame’s Doctrine of…

  • The Doctrine of the Word of God

    John Frame is the J.D. Trimble Chair of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at RTS right here in Orlando (and by Orlando, I mean Oveido). He used to teach at Westminster California and before that, Westminster Philadelphia. He has, as some might say, been around the block, and is quite the prolific writer in the Reformed…

  • Paradox in Christian Theology

    James Anderson is a fairly popular name. This particular James Anderson is currently assistant professor at Reformed Theological Seminary’s Charlotte extension site. He maintains both vantil.info and his own personal site. He has Ph.D’s (yes plural) from the University of Edinburgh in both computer simulation and philosophical theology. This particular book, as you might guess, pertains…

  • Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach

    When break comes, I usually try to tone down the reading, but to keep in the rhythm, I’ll usually have a small stack of books with me. Most of these are ones that are unrelated to anything else I’m studying, so it’s kind of like a break (but not entirely). This winter break, one of…

  • The Atheist’s Bible

    The other day, I was thinking to myself how helpful it would be for my studies if there was an equivalent Bible, but for atheists. Maybe there is such a thing when considered conceptually, but there certainly isn’t an authoritative written source that all atheists agree to be normative. Or is there? Honestly it would…

  • What Every Atheist Knows: Authority

    It still may strike some as rather arrogant to presume to declare “what every atheist knows.” It certainly would be arrogant, were not for the authority on which the claim is based. Being a Christian entails a commitment to the authority of God and His word. Before even getting an argument off the ground, a…