Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Resources for Psychological Adventures
[This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] You can’t actually click to look inside, but recently I’ve been working through this book as part of on-going research on this topic. The book itself is a bit dated, but it still more or less presents the major approaches to the two topics in…
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The Death of Death: Intro
[This post is part of the Atonement series] For the 2nd week in a row, one of my students asked me what I was giving up for Lent. I had thought we had gone over it last week, but it get me thinking somewhat. He of course is giving up sweets, and may or may…
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Transcendence
Stories are one of the few ways a human can actually transcend time and space. Think about it. You can encapsulate something that took days/months/years in a matter of hours by standing outside of the story and repeating it. I did it on here with the story of Alexandra and I. You do it every…
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The Myth of Neutrality in Psychological Studies
[This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] The idea that one can proceed neutrally with respect to a field of study has been very much in vogue, not just recently, but for probably as long as most of us can remember. Few if any people question the idea of neutrality in methodology,…
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Hermeneutics of The Soul
[This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] While it was promised the next post would deal with the myth of objectivity in psychology and other realms of knowledge, this may serve as a short buffer to clarify how it is that psychology is essentially just hermeneutics. To see how it is that…
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Psychological Hermeneutics
[This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] In their book Modern Psychotherapies, Stanton Jones and Richard Butman are confident they is no unifying philosophy undergirding the various approaches to counseling derived from the field of psychology (see pg 30-31ff). My question here is, “Is this an accurate assessment?” Much of what I might…
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How to Judge a Book by its Cover: Slightly Advanced
I thought it might be helpful to extend the original post, especially after New Growth Press (who got a favorable recommendation) twittered about it later in the week. Here is an extended list of authors, followed by some other hopefully helpful things to do when evaluating a book. Categorically, here are some more authors I…
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Defining Psychology
[This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] “Psychology” can be a sticky term to define. We tend to unfortunately use the word as if psychology itself were a monolithic discipline. This is unfortunately not the case at all, and as we shall see, “psychology” even in the broad sense has two radically different meanings.…
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How to Judge a Book by its Cover
While there is some truth to the maxim to “not judge a book by its cover,” this is generally best applied to people, and even then it can be shown to not be the best way to proceed in all situations. In fact, what actually holds true with respect to being able to understand a…
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The Temple and The Church’s Mission
[This post is part of the Eschatology series] This book I had actually started back in the fall as part of an investigation for a class on the ancient Near East. I was looking into the significance and purpose of temples, and G.K. Beale in this book has a rather extensive section on the cosmic…
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