Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Halloween Much?
Is is just me or are more people decorating for Halloween? In Dallas at least it seems to be almost epidemic. Much to all our surprise the seminary has not succumb to this sort of revelry, but they do have a “fall fest” planned just to do something at least. Maybe I’ve just been oblivious,…
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An Application of the Epistemological Argument
A couple of days ago, we explored the idea of an epistemological argument for the existence of God. In Philosophy of Religion class today, we were examining the contents of the argument for God from the fine tuning of the universe for the existence of life. The basic idea (and this is probably an oversimplification)…
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Further Thoughts on the Gospel
It was inevitable that while reading Michael Horton’s follow up to Christless Christianity, titled The Gospel Driven Life, I would run into more thoughts to enhance the post from yesterday. In it, Horton captures the idea of 1 Corinthians 15 in an more overarching manner and describes it as this: The Good News is that…
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Thoughts on the Gospel
Recently, as in yesterday, Rob Bell made another attempt at “tweeting” the gospel. Now I say this not to pick on Bell (for reasons why, see the last idolatry post) but to use it as a starting point for discussing the gospel. Given Bell’s last attempt, this is actually an improvement and does come quite…
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An Epistemological Argument
In Philsophy of Religion class, we are talking through the arguments for the existence of God. So far, we have seen how Paley’s rendering of the teleological argument is quite frankly, a bad argument as far as arguments go. Now this isn’t to deny that we believe the universe is designed by God, but that…
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Idolatry: Pharisees (C)
[This post is part of the Idolatry series] Of all the musings on idolatry up to this point, this one that hits rather close to home for me personally. So while in some other instances I have been pointing out problems from the outside in, this one comes quite frankly from the inside out. It was while…
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Idolatry: Pharisees (B)
[This post is part of the Idolatry series] In following the last entry, we can now try to connect the dots to a potential manifestation of modern day Pharisees. To answer the question that ended the last post, regarding what symbol of our tradition gets functionally worshiped, my contention here is that for us today, this is…
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Idolatry: Pharisees (A)
[This post is part of the Idolatry series] We closed the last idolatry post with a telescopic view of idolatry in both the nation and the Christian church specifically. With this post, we are going to hone in more specifically on the Christian church and an idolatry that generally slips by unnoticed. The next step then following…
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This is me procrastinating…
This update comes in the form of lists. So let’s get right into it. Let’s start with books that either I’m currently reading or recently finished. Go! Books you should read: Vintage Jesus/Church by Mark Driscoll Total Church by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament by John Walton…
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Drop$ Like $tar$
Drops Like Stars is Rob Bell’s latest, and with the price tag and size of it, one would expect this book to have quite a lot to contribute to the topic of suffering. But to be fair, the subtitle is of course, “A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering.” And few they are. Perhaps the…
Got any book recommendations?