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  • In the Beginning Was the Word: Language – A God-Centered Approach

    Vern Poythress is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. The present volume is the second of three in a series by investigating disciplines related to the field of New Testament studies. Published after the book on science and before the book on sociology, this treatment of language is perhaps the…

  • Descartes Missing Doubts

    If you’ve studied philosophy at any point (pop culture even counts on this one) then you are most likely familiar with Rene Descartes and his famous saying “I think, therefore I am.” You may even know the Latin, cogito ergo sum. Bonus points for you, even more so if you know that Descartes’ modus operandi was…

  • 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 (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…

  • Genetic Fallacies in Actions

    In his newest book Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History, Carl Trueman presents two versions of the genetic fallacy in action. Interestingly, they both are used by Christians to support their view of our nation, but perhaps not surprisingly, for different ends. In case you’re a bit rusty on what the…

  • Paradigms for Knowing God

    [This post is part of The Christian Faith series] The Christian Faith is split up into 6 parts: Knowing God: The Presuppositions of Theology God Who Lives God Who Creates God Who Rescues God Who Reigns in Grace God Who Reigns in Glory As you might notice, these divisions more or less follow traditional systematic theology categories,…

  • Evaluating Theological Writing

    Yesterday, I posted a link to some of John Frame’s thoughts on how to write a theological paper. Justin Taylor highlighted one of the points and then linked you to the rest of them. The whole discussion is appendix F in Doctrine of the Knowledge of God. In appendix E though, Frame goes over how…

  • 10 Good Non-theological Books I Read In 2010

    As a kind of companion post to the last one, here are the best non-theology books I read this past year. In a way though, they are not without theological implications (one of which I discussed here). Particularly interesting in this regard are the books by Klosterman, which involve some very penetrating analyses of culture…