Category: Philosophy
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Philosophy Friday: Dare to Know
As I was preparing for my post about Liberty’s philosophical demise, I was reminded I used to do a series called Philosophy Friday. I’m not going to link to any of those posts because they’re mostly from 6 years ago and you shouldn’t read them (but I suppose the search bar does work). But, I…
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Philosophy Going the Way of The Buffalo
One of the most important classes I took in college was Intro to Philosophy. By “important,” I mean “has had measurable lasting impact on me.” In a different life, I might have become a literal doctor in philosophy. But, since I took it at the start of my junior year and already had grad school…
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Christmas Book List: Philosophy
Intro to Philosophy was one of the most mind altering classes I took in undergrad. After Word of Life, it was one of the first classes I took at Liberty, and I’ve been interested in philosophy ever since. When I was at Dallas, I ended up using my electives to take philosophy classes, and the…
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On Reading Well: Finding The Good Life Through Great Books
I’ve been writing a bit lately on reading well. I’m mostly focused on reading Genesis well, but I did finish an unrelated (sort of) book about reading well in general. On Reading Well: Finding The Good Life Through Great Books is Karen Swallow Prior’s latest release and was my book of the week last week.…
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8-Bit Philosophy: Are We Living in a Simulation?
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8-Bit Philosophy: Is Trump The End of Politics?
Yesterday on Instagram, I promised a post on predestination and free will. Rather than get all controversial, I thought I’d post about Trump and politics instead. At this point, he has been inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States (technically 44th person to hold office though because Grover Cleveland). This video was from…
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8-Bit Philosophy: Why Are We So Nostalgic?
With so many bands going on 10-year anniversary tours for albums that came out between 2005-2007, I’ve been thinking about nostalgia. The cynical part of me wondered if these tours were simply cash grabs to take advantage of the fact 10 years later the demographic is older and will buy more merch. The musician in…
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Kierkegaard: A Single Life
It’s a New Year and time to resurrect philosophy Friday. Maybe not every Friday mind you, but many of them. In the past I had previously just posted videos with sparse comments (see here for instance). Now I’d like to actually do some philosophizing (with and without a hammer), as well as post about some…
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Thomas McCall’s Response to EFS and 15 Theses on Trinitarian Theology
Shortly before there was a sudden resurgence of interest in Trinitarian theology, I had been reading Thomas McCall’s Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? Philosophical and Systematic Theologians on the Metaphysics of Trinitarian Theology. You know, just light beach reading. The book covers a lot of ground in its 250 or so pages. The first section gives…
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What Christians Ought to Believe and Analytic Christian Theology
Well, Mike Bird has done it again. “It” meaning “written a book.” This time it is a primer on The Apostles’ Creed, aptly title What Christians Ought to Believe, and Zondervan was kind enough to send me a copy. In just over 200 pages Bird introduces readers to the creed, explains why you need it,…