Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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New Books of Note
I don’t read many of Simon Gathercole’s books, but when I do, they are short. Around this time last year I read Justification Reconsidered. There, he was rethinking a Pauline theme, and in some ways, that’s also what he is doing in his recent book Defending Substitution: An Essay on Atonement in Paul. In both books,…
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Music Monday: CHON | Live in Austin 2015
I’ve posted about CHON before, but here they are being legit live. If you can stand some swearing, you should watch this video where they play Fall of Troy songs with Thomas Erak. It might seem a little messy, but they just met the Fall of Troy frontman that day and in the video, you’re…
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The Hidden Meanings in The Matrix (@EarthlingCinema)
I actually ended up watching this movie in high school because I had a Bible teacher that pointed out some of this imagery. I remember being slightly disturbed and wondering if it was possible that the Matrix was real. But then I remembered if Christianity is true then it’s not possible. The anxiety soon dissipated.
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Wisdom from Tim Keller on Why Pastors Fall
On the surface, this might seem like a post about Tullian Tchividjian’s recent resignation from his pastorate at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. In reality, it was motivated by a pastor in our network of churches (CrossPointe) that was disqualified from ministry a couple of months ago. He had been the pastoral apprentice at our congregation…
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The Recurrent Theme in TGC’s Advice to Young Pastors
Earlier this year, The Gospel Coalition ran a series with “Advice to Young Pastors.” The answers given by these pastors and leaders is in response to this question: In addition to knowing Scripture and sound doctrine, what should young pastors today be studying? Is your answer any different from what you would’ve recommended 20 years…
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Did The Reformers Misread Paul? A Historical-Theological Critique of the New Perspective
I was barely into my four years at Dallas Seminary when John Piper published The Future of Justification. For better or worse, that was my introduction to both the New Perspective on Paul and N. T. Wright. I say that because context is important and initially, my understanding of Wright was filtered through Piper and…
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Metal Monday: Polyphia | 87
These guys are, no surprise, a bit cleaner on their recordings. But given the extensive use of whammy bars, I was pleasantly surprised they turned out good live in a session like this.
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The LEGO Movie’s Hidden Meanings (via @EarthlingCinema)
If you’re not familiar with the background of these videos, it is an alien explaining human culture to other aliens, via our movies. I’m sure you picked up that the LEGO movie had some philosophical undertones, but now you can know it for sure.
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For The Love of God’s Word: An Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
Because I spend a good bit of my time teaching the Bible, books on biblical interpretation always catch my eye. On my book review page, the “Hermeneutics” section gives you a good idea of volumes I’ve read in the past few years. One of those, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation, now has an abridged version. Although…
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Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither? Three Views on The Bible’s Earliest Chapters
It is no secret at this point that I’m a fan of multi-view books. Scroll through my review page and you can see several titles from IVP’s Spectrum Multi-view series as well as Zondervan’s Counterpoints. Most recently I worked through Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither? Three Views on The Bible’s Earliest Chapters. The title is perhaps…
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