Category: Theology
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Lost in Translation
Originally, this was actually two blogs, both hosted on WordPress.com. I then moved the Marturo blog (marturo.wordpress.com) to a self-hosted site (the short lived metamarturo.com) before then settling on the present domain. I then imported by other WordPress.com blog and combined them into one. All the posts that were originally accessible on nathanielclaiborne.wordpress.com are now…
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The 90-Day Challenge
I’m not particularly overweight, but I have acquired some bad eating habits, and I haven’t seemed to be able to drop the excess around my gut. My goal then is to get down to my ideal weight and maybe even start showing some abs. Ali is doing this as well and has a more or…
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A Hipster’s Systematic Theology
A couple of months ago, I finished reading The Christian Faith. A few weeks later, the class I had to read the book for ended as well. As my time at seminary dwindled, so did my interest in analyzing Horton chapter by chapter. For a recap of what I did accomplish, see here. For an…
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Why I Haven’t Been Blogging
I’ve had some really great ideas for blogs, but… I’ve also been trying to finish the first draft of my thesis this week so I can focus on other things. I’m certainly not out of the woods by getting the first draft done, but at least most of the conceptual work is finished, and so…
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Flat Tires and Fresh Starts
This was the scene just about an hour outside of Dallas the night we left town. We had set off for Orlando, and I was leading the drive when…well, this happened. I have driven literally hundreds of thousands of miles, mostly on the interstate, and this was my first flat tire on a road trip.…
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Jesus, Paul and the People of God
Overview This book is edited by Nicholas Perrin and Richard Hays and has essays authored by: Jeremy Begbie Markus Bockmuehl Richard B. Hays Edith M. Humphrey Sylvia Keesmaat and Brian Walsh Nicholas Perrin Marianne Meye Thompson Kevin J. Vanhoozer Now, originally these were all lectures delivered at Wheaton’s 2010 Theology Conference, which was, as one…
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Adventures in Architecture
My life can basically be broken into three phases, which helpfully, correspond to the close to three decades I’ve lived. Phase One Roughly 20 years ago, when I was 7, pretty much all I did was play with Legos. On the one hand, I pretty much always built what was on the box top. On…
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Metaphorically Thinking: Conduits
In the 3rd chapter of Metaphors We Live By, we learn that while metaphors can illuminate our understanding of things, they can also obscure it as well. To illustrate, Lakoff and Johnson present the conduit metaphor: Ideas (or meanings) are objects Linguistic expressions are containers Communication is sending This is certainly a helpful metaphor, and…
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Justification and Adoption
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] On the one hand, this section (and the next) of Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith presents some of the strongest parts of the book. Most likely this is because there is the most overlap here with his previously published dogmatics, but also because this seems to finally be…
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Recovering and Discovering
Well, graduation weekend is officially over. My parents are somewhere in the airspace between here and Memphis, and I’m on break from teaching lessons. It was a great weekend, I’m glad they could come in (and my wife’s Aunt Dorian as well) and we got to spend time together as I moved past this milestone…