Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Christianity and Literature
[This review is part of the Christian Worldview Integration Series] Authors David Lyle Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is also a lifelong evangelical Protestant Christian with deep, equally abiding Catholic sympathies. Gregory Maillet is professor of English at Crandall University in Moncton, Canada.…
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Metaphorically Thinking: Arguments
Yesterday, I asked what metaphor we might use to conceptually structure our idea of arguments. With a little reflection, the answer should be clear: Argument is war. Pulling from Metaphors We Live By, consider how we tend to talk about arguments: Your claims are indefensible He attacked every weak point in my argument His criticisms were…
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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…
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The Greener Grass Conspiracy
Paperback: 144pgs Publisher: Crossway Books (April 7, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1433521156 Westminster Amazon Thanks to Crossway for providing an advance review copy of this book! I haven’t yet mastered the art of embedding videos, so here’s the link to the trailer for this book: “Greener Grass Conspiracy” Trailer – Stephen Altrogge Stephen Altrogge is a pastor…
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Kind of Like Memento
This could be my last full day of class. My Friday class doesn’t have an attendance policy, so if I skip it, this morning was my last formal class here at DTS. I thought it would be a good idea to reflect on my journey somewhat, but in a slightly non-traditional way. In talking about…
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Good Friday, Christian Conferences, Blog Makeovers
For Good Friday (and for Easter), I would recommend reading the following: The -ations of the cross 6 things Christ accomplished in his death Since when did bunnies have eggs? Why did Jesus have to die? 5 suggestions for observing Good Friday Holy Week: What happened on Good Friday? Unrelated to this weekend, but still highly important to think…
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Inception within Inception
Was it just a dream? Or did it all really happen? Had he finally made it home? These questions haunt us at the end of Inception. The main character Cobb appears to have made it home, but ominously, the top he left spinning on the table doesn’t appear to fall over. We learn earlier in…
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In Case You Missed It, I Got an Award
Much has been happening here around the seminary. My semester is speeding right up to the end. Last week though, I was awarded the Rollin Thomas Chafer Award in Apologetics for the best paper submitted in that field. I was a bit surprised since I haven’t submitted any papers on that recently (nor have I…
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Rediscovering the Church Fathers
Paperback: 176pgs Publisher: Crossway (March 2, 2011) Westminster Amazon Monergism Bible School (and maybe some general readers) Prophetic explorations of selected church fathers’ theology [You’re reading this review of Rediscovering the Church Fathers because I asked Crossway for a review copy and they said yes!] Overview In some ways, I might not be the best person to offer…
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The Ordo Salutis
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] And so now we come to section five of Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith. Having actually finished the book at this point, I will say the second half of the book (chapters 14-29) is much stronger and well developed than the first part. In a way this is…
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