Category: Philosophy
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Where The Conflict Really Lies
Continuing the trend this week, I’m looking forward to reading Alvin Plantinga’s Where the Conflict Really Lies. Although I haven’t too much of Plantinga’s work, I’m probably at least indirectly influenced by him. My philosophy professor at Dallas, who also was my thesis adviser, did his Ph.D work at Notre Dame, and so was not…
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God With Us: Divine Condescension and The Attributes of God
If you’re looking to do some heavy lifting this year in your personal reading, this book might be a great place to start. I was actually surprised and the density of God With Us, but then again I should have been surprised since it’s written by K. Scott Oliphint. It’s heavy plodding pretty much all…
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Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice
In Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice, professor of philosophy Kent Dunnington takes the traditional ways of thinking about addiction and flips the paradigm. That probably tells you little about what the book really talks about, but as the subtitle bears out, people typically conceive of addictions as either the result…
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A Triperspectival Map of DKG
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, we’re reading through John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (DKG) in the reading for The Marturo Collective. We’re reading through chapters 2 and 3 this week, and it’s at that point that Frame first introduces his notion of perspectivalism.…
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Footnotes to The Drama
As it is often remarked, the history of western philosophy of more or less a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead originally voiced this sentiment (“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”), but others have quoted him in agreement, and…
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The Homosexuality Debate, God’s Sovereignty, and Gospel Polemics
Kevin DeYoung wrote a short article on how to articulate the Christian worldview in 4 easy steps. Obviously, there is much more to say, but this is great summary. He also has post listing some “isms” that infect us today. Doug Wilson offers some thoughts on cardinal sexuality. I’ll let you read, but just a…
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Being Reasonable About Science
In an article published in Monday’s New York Times, authors Karl Giberson and Randall Stephens explore the evangelical rejection of reason. While I agree that there may be a problem in that particular, and want to champion the overall point they are making, I think from the onset of the article, the authors themselves are…
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Right Reason and the Princeton Mind: An Unorthodox Proposal
The subtitle of Paul Kjoss Helseth’s book has a hint of irony to it. On the one hand, his proposal concerning the giants of Old Princeton (Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, B. B. Warfield, and J. Gresham Machen) may be “unorthodox” because it cuts against the consensus. On the other hand, his proposal demonstrates that they…
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The Ethics of Contextualization
It may not seem like I need another series going on the blog. Yet, after some of the recent conversations I’ve heard about The Elephant Room both past and upcoming, I decided for my own clarity of thought, it might be good to explore contextualization. Specifically, I’d like to explore the ethics of contextualization. This…
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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…