Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Covenant: God Pursues
[This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] Its been awhile, but I should be back on track to finish up exploring Mark Driscoll’s Doctrine. Chapter 6 picks up with what is basically God’s response to humanity’s plunge into sin. Though nothing particularly new to people in the ANE, covenants are not something…
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Tribulation and New Creation
[This post is part of the Eschatology series] I’ll try to keep this post from simply being a junk drawer of ideas that couldn’t be treated in the first 3 parts, but it might be hard. I’d like to move on from talking about my difficulties with dispensationalism, and back into eschatology in general. I…
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Fall: God Judges
[This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] In some ways, this chapter of Doctrine picks up where Creation: God Makes left off, and rounds out a set of three chapters that mainly center on exposition from Genesis 1-3. This one of course, covers chapter 3 which is the narrative description of the…
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The Overlap of Ages in The Kingdom
[This post is part of the Eschatology series] Venn Diagram Eschatology By the New Creation starting while the old is still present, a significant overlap occurs. This presents a kind of already, though not yet kind of scenario, and is the same issue with the Kingdom of God, which is already inaugurated and a present…
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Old Creation
[This post is part of the Eschatology series] Having talked about an overall kind of philosophy of eschatology, here is a brief (very!) overview of the drama of redemption. It essentially breaks out into this section on old creation, or creation and fall, followed by a discussion of new creation and redemption. What is then…
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Image: God Loves
[This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] n this chapter of Doctrine, several interesting and vital concepts are introduced. Before even starting to answers questions, there is a brief discussion of mankind’s desires for autonomy. The discussion is framed in terms of our modern conception of man as an autonomous individual rather…
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Dispensationalism
[This post is part of the Eschatology series] If you remember where we left off, it was an exploration of the millennial options. It is unfortunate to say the least, that one’s eschatology is basically categorized by how you interpret Revelation 20. My study of the topic over the course of this semester has helped…
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Creation: God Makes
[This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] Of all the chapters in this book, this one may perhaps be the most controversial. Certainly among non-Christians, who may at least be open to God’s existence and maybe other elements of the Christian faith, creation is the sort of doctrine that has few, if…
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Revelation: God Speaks
[This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] This chapter, much like the last one, and all the ones I’ve read so far, really deserves a much fuller treatment. But again, Doctrine sets out to be concise as it can, and so this chapter probably could not be any shorter without losing something…
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Trinity: God Is
[This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] I like that Doctrine starts with the Trinity, as usually systematic theologies will begin with Bibliology, or worldview issues. As I understand, this is covered at a later section in the book, specifically, in the next chapter. This chapter is a pretty good overview, especially…
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