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  • Metaphorically Thinking: Introduction

    In their book Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson talk extensively about how we conceptualize many everyday things metaphorically. Taking a page out of the TentBlogger play-book, I’m gonna start a new series working through some of the insights of re-thinking our conceptual metaphors. Most of my thoughts will come from this…

  • The Gospel and The Mind

    If you’re looking for a great book on the life of the mind from a Christian perspective, I’d really recommend Bradley Green’s The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life. This makes a good bookend with John Piper’s Think. Just as a brief overview, here’s a rundown of the chapters: Chapter 1…

  • Triperspectivalism and the Movies (D)

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] I almost forget we hadn’t finished this mini-series (within a series). This is the last post though, picking up from where the one before left off, which was a brief discussion of “story” as it relates to movies. Here we go… Worldview Worldviews are, to perhaps over…

  • The Original Inceptor

    As I was reading through Berkhof’s Introduction to Systematic Theology, I noticed him making a very interesting claim: The term “dynamic inspiration” is sometimes used to denote what we would call “organic inspiration,” but is employed here to designate the theory of inspiration that owes its inception to the teachings of Schleiermacher. (pg. 152) So…

  • Triperspectivalism and the Movies (C)

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] If you need to, see the previous post before digging into this one. At this point, we’re finally turning to the focus to actual film analysis. From an overall Christian theological perspective, a triperspectival analysis would entail: (1) a normative perspective looking at how film functions as…

  • Why I Probably Won’t Read Love Wins

    I’ve said quite a bit  about the whole controversy (here, here, and here), but have refrained from saying much about the actual content of the book. The main reason for this is because I haven’t actually read the book, though I have read several in depth reviews. To be honest, I am more interested in thinking about and analyzing…

  • Triperspectivalism and the Movies (B)

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] Yesterday, I started working through presenting the content of my ETS paper on here. I summarized the basic foundation of John Frame’s general perspectivalism, and so today we can refine that a bit further and flesh out what triperspectivalism involves. Then, we can apply it to film studies.

  • Triperspectivalism and the Movies (A)

    [This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] This little mini-series is basically my paper from ETS, titled “Using John Frame’s Theological Methodology in Film Analysis.” I may cut out some explanatory footnotes here and there, but I’d like any feedback you have to offer me. This is a work in progress and…

  • The Zeitgeist’s New Prophet

    In case you have been somewhat technologically challenged over the past few weeks, here is how we got to today. I had originally planned on reading the book and writing a semi-review of it, but when I saw how long Kevin DeYoung’s is, I decided there might not be much left to say. I will…

  • John Frame, N.T. Wright: Kindred Spirits?

    While we’re on the topic of seminary reflections, two very well known, yet neglected by me, authors have made it heavily into my reading rotation. I am speaking of course about N. T. Wright and John Frame. In many ways, at least to me, they are kindred spirits. One is a world class New Testament…