Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Justification and The Gospel: Understanding the Contexts and Controversies
In my summer reading, I spent a lot of time with books on Paul (well, one book in particular). That meant also spending a good amount of time reading about justification. In a couple of instances, that was the focus of the entire book. One of those was Westerholm’s Justification Reconsidered. The other was R.…
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8-Bit Philosophy Ep. 11: Why Shouldn’t We Commit Suicide? (Camus Offers Atheism’s Best Answer)
As a Christian, I can think of several better answers, but this is about the best you can do from an atheistic perspective.
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Paul and His World Part II
Last week, we actually started our review series on N. T. Wright’s Paul and The Faithfulness of God.[ref]Thanks again to Fortress Press for the review copy![/ref] Today, we’ll continue and finish Part I of the book. You can refer back to the table of contents to see where we’re headed after this. For now, we’ll focus on chapters 3-5 and round…
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Paul and The Law: Keeping The Commandments of God
One of my favorite book series is New Studies in Biblical Theology. I’m sure I’ve said that before, but I’ll say it again (and probably again). This summer I actually read quite a few volumes in the series that were either new or that I hadn’t gotten around to before now. One of those in…
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The Stories We Tell: A World Full of Stories
Just a week ago, Mike Cosper’s book The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth released. Over at Christ and Pop Culture, it’s part of the rotating bundle given away to members. You can read my write up to get a 30,000 ft. overview and join Christ and Pop Culture to…
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Scale The Summit: Levitated, Olive Tree, Odyssey Live
I failed to mention in my reflections on the end of summer that I got to see one of my favorite bands play live a few weeks back. To give you a feel for it, here they are playing three songs. (via Scale the Summit – Audiotree Live from Audiotree Live on Vimeo.)
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A Flowchart To Figure Out What Kind of Procrastinator You Are
(via Lifehacker)
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8-Bit Philosophy Ep. 10: Are You Authentic? (Heidegger Wants to Know)
I’m not particularly a big fan of Heidegger, but this is a good introduction to one of his major ideas.
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New Series: Reviewing The Life of Book Reviewing
For a while, I’ve been thinking about doing a series on book reviewing. It’s something I’ve been known to do in semi-prolific proportions. It’s also something that my interest and capacity for is waning. Book reviewing was a way of keeping my free time under guardians and managers until the date of resuming school. Since…
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Paul and His World Part I
A long time ago, in a blog post far, far away, I mentioned I would do a review series on N. T. Wright’s Paul and The Faithfulness of God.[ref]Thanks again to Fortress Press for the review copy![/ref] I went back and forth about whether to actually go through with it over the summer. But, as I was reading it,…
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