Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Myth of the Good Heart: Language
[This post is part of the Idolatry series] This is the first of a fourt part look at John Eldredge’s Waking the Dead. His work was selected both for its popular acceptance, and for the fact that one of his central points in the book is that our heart is now good after being redeemed by Christ.…
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Portraits
[This post is part of the Idolatry series] I’m not sure if the delay in writing this particular entry was due to the subject matter or just because I’m a little rusty on writing anything besides Hebrew exegetical papers. It’s hard to say, but thankfully, though I thoroughly enjoyed the class, Hebrew 3 is over and I’m…
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So here’s the story…part XIII
For the better part of the spring semester of 2008 I had been setting aside the month of August as a sabbatical. Realizing working two jobs and taking a full load of graduate level classes was going to wear me down fast if I didn’t take a good long break, early on in the semester…
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A Rather Vague Introduction
[This post is part of the Idolatry series] Let’s be honest. Reading through pages and pages of my philosophical ruminations can sometimes be enlightening, but on the balance, its hard to find a practical take-a-way from a lot of it. Right? Some of that is endemic to the nature of what I sometimes write about,…
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Justification and the New Perspective on Paul (2)
[Read the first part of this review here] We left off in chapter 3 of Justification and the New Perspective on Paul, so let’s pick back up in chapter 4, which summarizes E.P. Sanders’ research and presentation of Judaism, particularly in the NT context. What is interesting in Waters’ presentation of Sanders’ work is that it…
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So here’s the story…part XII
If this were a Word document (which it actually is on my laptop), we would be in the middle of page 29. Oh wait…I started the last part out like that, didn’t I? Well disregard then the first part of this part. Continue on to the start of the next paragraph. Oh what changes a…
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Justification and the New Perspective on Paul
You may have noticed a recent trend in the direction this blog is going. Namely, one away from expositing Christian philosophy and towards book reviews. There are two reasons for this: I had to do the last two reviews anyway for a class and felt like sharing This one and the next one lined up…
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So here’s the story…Part XI
As a Word document on my computer, this story is about to enter its 28th page and its now 11th part. And just think, I don’t we’ve actually even gotten to the actual part where the magic happens yet (although we haven’t proceeded entirely chronologically). So anyway, here is part XI. We’re dissing strict chronology…
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The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright
In writing The Future of Justification, John Piper is making a rather direct response to the writings of N.T. Wright. While it centers on justification, that topic emerges from Dr. Wright’s efforts to generally re-read the Apostle Paul in categories that are largely different from the ones most people use in reading their NT (pg.…
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Death by Love: Letters From the Cross
Death by Love is a book essentially written by pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church (in Seattle, not to be confused with the one in Michigan), but contains also help in writing by Dr. Gerry Breshears of Western Theological Seminary. The book is formatted as pastoral letters to people that pastor Mark has worked…
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