Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Summer Reviews: Scripture and Hermeneutics Series
If you read widely in biblical studies, you may have already one or more of the volumes in this stack. At the very least, you’ve probably seen frequent footnotes to a few key volumes, particularly Out of Egypt and Renewing Biblical Interpretation. What you might not be aware of is that Zondervan recently re-released these…
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Blind Spots: Becoming A Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church
I don’t quite remember when I first learned about psychological blind spots. Probably it was while working on a psychology major, but it might have been in some earlier college reading. The blind spots we may most be familiar with are the literal kind. You may be thinking of that area diagonally behind your…
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Eschatology at EPCOT (Or How I Spent Saturday Not Watching Sports)
If you don’t know, this is SpaceShip Earth. It’s actually a ride at EPCOT about human progress. It’s kind of evolutionary, but once you get out of the cave it’s pretty interesting. It’s also the symbol of the park, much like Cinderella’s Castle in Magic Kingdom. After my last post, Ali reminded me that EPCOT…
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How Carl Trueman Changed My Mind About Luther
Carl Trueman and I go way back. He doesn’t probably know it (or care), but his writing style and point of view tend wake me from my dogmatic slumbers. The first things I read from him were Wages of Spin and Minority Report, both checked out from the DTS Library. Around this time, Republocrat came out. Later,…
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Genesis Rebooted
A perennial interest for me over the past several years has been understanding the early chapters of Genesis. This reached its height while I was in my last couple of years at Dallas and I was able to take Hebrew III and IV, as well as a Ph.D seminar on ancient Near East literature. Couple…
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Snakes on The Plain: Why Numbers Is Still Important
In my daily Bible reading plan, I just started Numbers over the weekend. I’ve been following the M’Cheyne plan and working through D. A. Carson’s For the Love of God (you can do so as well at this blog). Numbers is not usually high on anyone’s list of anticipated devotional reading. I can generally sympathize with…
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Metal Monday: Between The Buried and Me | Memory Palace
Between The Buried and Me isn’t for everyone, but I really appreciate their music. Ever since Alaska, I’ve been using their albums for night driving and working out (and occasionally studying). Looks like they have a new album coming out in July, which I’ll probably go ahead and pre-order now.
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8-Bit Philosophy: Can We Trust The News? (Jean Baudrillard Says No)
Baudrillard makes a good point, though it can obviously be taken to extremes. There is no such thing as a no-spin zone, but that doesn’t mean news can’t be reported in some respects in a fair and balanced way. There is no such thing as un-biased reporting, but there is objective reporting. That is to…
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Bound For The Promised Land: The Land Promise in God’s Redemptive Plan (NSBT)
Once again, I had the pleasure of reading a volume in the IVP Academic’s New Studies in Biblical Theology series and telling you about it. This time, it’s Oren Martin’s lightly revised doctoral dissertation from SBTS, Bound For The Promised Land: The Land Promise in God’s Redemptive Plan. As someone who went to three different dispensational schools, this…
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Brief Reflections From Last Week
This past week, I was a volunteer in the bookstore at The Gospel Coalition national conference. You might have picked that up already from Twitter, but just in case, now you know. You might have also seen the partial book review post that I hadn’t quite finished before its scheduled post date arrived. That review…
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