Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Think: The Life of The Mind and The Love of God
John Piper, Think: The Life of The Mind and The Love of God. Wheaton: Crossway, September 2010. 224 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page There are a handful books I’ve read recently that I wish I would have had the privilege to read before starting seminary. John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God is…
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The Qualifications of a Real Theologian
Over the weekend I read another book by Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. I would highly recommend his more recent book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us as well. Both books actually go well together and complement each other. In A Whole New Mind, Pink (not to…
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The Deep Things of God: How The Trinity Changes Everything
Fred Sanders, The Deep Things of God: How The Trinity Changes Everything. Wheaton: Crossway, August 2010. 256 pp. Paperback, $18.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Ever since my second semester here at DTS, I’ve been avidly interested in good reading on the Trinity. That was the semester I took Trinitarianism with Dr. Horrell and what would…
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Gladiator and Ethical Paradox
For research on my thesis, I just finished working through Brian Godawa’s Hollywood Worldviews. I may post a more thorough review at some point, but in one of the closing chapters on spirituality in the movies, he makes a very good point about what many people talk about today concerning non-religious ethics. He quotes at…
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Is Leviathan Really Just a Crocodile?
For class this semester, one of the book we covered was Job. As usual, I did some supplemental reading, and since the New Studies in Biblical Theology is rapidly becoming my favorite series of books, I chose the one on Job. In Now My Eyes Have Seen You, Robert Fyall is exploring the meaning of…
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On the Value of Modern Biblical Scholarship
In reading through Frame’s Doctrine of the Word of God, he quotes C. S. Lewis who is responding to some claims of Rudolf Bultmann. Those claims in particular were that Jesus’ personality was of little interest or importance to the apostle John and Paul. Lewis, himself quite the scholar, in his “Modern Theology and Biblical…
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The Goodness of Inequality
Perhaps you’ve seen these bumper stickers around in the past few weeks/months. I recently just figured out what they meant. Don’t ask me to clarify how I got this notion, but for some reason I was associating these with Sweden (probably because of the colors). Only with a little reflection did I realize, “Oh wait.…
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Book of the Week: Doctrine of the Word of God
As Justin Taylor noted last week, in the words of J.I. Packer, this book is both magisterial and indispensible as a quality recent work on the doctrine of Scripture. John Frame’s The Doctrine of the Word of God is the 4th and last book in his Theology of Lordship series. It is also probably the…
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The Diminished Chord of the Christian Life
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] My old percussion teacher used to joke that in a performance situation, if you made several audible mistakes, you could always claim you were doing afterward that you “were just playing jazz.” I have since passed this insight on to my students when prepping them…
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Up for Review
Here’s some books I’ve read recently that I could do a short review/synopsis of. Let me know if any interest you: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in…
Got any book recommendations?