Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Upcoming Reviews
Within the next week I should be able to deliver a review on What the Best College Teachers Do which I would highly recommend to you if you plan to teach in any venue consistently (i.e. if you’re a pastor, small group leader, Sunday School teacher, or aspiring professor) Courtesy of New Growth Press, I’m finishing up…
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Westminster Sale
Westminster is offering 50% on Thriving At College until April 8th. That makes its final price $7.50 for the time being. Pretty good deal if you ask me. Click through for more info on this book, but it’s got an impressive list of endorsers: Russell Moore Al Mohler Tedd Tripp Leland Ryken Jerry Bridges Douglas…
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Triperspectivalism and the Movies (C)
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] If you need to, see the previous post before digging into this one. At this point, we’re finally turning to the focus to actual film analysis. From an overall Christian theological perspective, a triperspectival analysis would entail: (1) a normative perspective looking at how film functions as…
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Why I Probably Won’t Read Love Wins
I’ve said quite a bit about the whole controversy (here, here, and here), but have refrained from saying much about the actual content of the book. The main reason for this is because I haven’t actually read the book, though I have read several in depth reviews. To be honest, I am more interested in thinking about and analyzing…
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In Case You Missed It
I had three posts from this week: A continuation of the review of Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith Part A and B of a series taken from my ETS paper on using John Frame’s triperspectivalism in watching movies Elsewhere on the web, check these out: Desiring God is offering a read through of their namesake…
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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.
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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…
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The Nature and Fall of Man
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] I skipped over chapters 10-11 of The Christian Faith. I might come back to them, but I don’t remember there being anything necessary to point out. Berkhof I think handles the material on providence and creation better than Horton, but Horton is at least a little more readable.…
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Notes on the Weekend
In case you missed it, I missed posting an “in case you missed it” on Friday. Mainly, this was because I was busy with getting a paper ready that I presented at the Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. That, and I placed a priority on reading out by the pool (it was…
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Who Said It?
“We are distinctly a Presbyterian institution. Out of the 14 men who are now enrolled on our faculty, 11 of them are loyal Presbyterians. Our theology as well as the interpretation of Scripture in every department is strictly Calvinistic, far more so than the usual denominational seminary is today whether it be North or South.”…
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