Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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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…
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In Case You Missed It
I’ve now uploaded all 4 Perspectivalism and the Movies posts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 I also made some more headway working through Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith. Tim Challies new book The Next Story released on Tuesday and Cruciform Press has some great books available. Also, just today, I uploaded a…
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Marriage Matters
Paperback: 304pgs Publisher: New Growth Press (October, 18, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935273612 Westminster Amazon Monergism Thanks a lot to New Growth Press for providing this review copy of Marriage Matters! I’ve read a few books on marriage now that I’m actually married (notably The Mystery of Marriage and What Did You Expect?) but I…
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Triperspectivalism and the Movies (D)
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] I almost forget we hadn’t finished this mini-series (within a series). This is the last post though, picking up from where the one before left off, which was a brief discussion of “story” as it relates to movies. Here we go… Worldview Worldviews are, to perhaps over…
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Cruciform Press
Back in February, I started an eBook subscription to Cruciform Press. They offer either print or eBook and when you subscribe you get a book at the beginning of each month. The books are short, but pack a punch for practical applications. You can get a free sampler of their books here. Their newest book, Cruciform: Living…
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New Release Tuesday
Tim Challies’ The Next Story: Life and Faith After the Digital Explosion released today, and I’m excited to have time to read it. I read through the Introduction this morning and once time allows (i.e. this weekend), I’ll be digging into it further. I picked mine up on Kindle, but if you want a hard…
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The Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] Finally, we have reached something of a midway point in Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith. I plan to stretch out the posts on here a bit longer, and give shorter posts rather than the longer clusters we are having to do for class. Partially because I’m slammed with…
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In Case You Missed It
Friday was a busy day, we had friends come in town to go to Passion over in Ft. Worth. So, the weekend came and went and the roundup comes on Sunday night instead of Friday. Speaking of Friday, Rebecca Black analyzes the lyrics to her viral video, while Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Conan O’Brien…
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The Original Inceptor
As I was reading through Berkhof’s Introduction to Systematic Theology, I noticed him making a very interesting claim: The term “dynamic inspiration” is sometimes used to denote what we would call “organic inspiration,” but is employed here to designate the theory of inspiration that owes its inception to the teachings of Schleiermacher. (pg. 152) So…
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The Person of Christ
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] This chapter starts the 4th section of Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith titled, appropriately, God Who Rescues. It is the first of three chapters on Christology and Soteriology. As I read through the chapter, I didn’t find anything particularly egregious, which made me feel uncertain. I couldn’t tell if…
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