Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Big Story: How The Bible Makes Sense Out of Life
Justin Buzzard is founder and lead pastor of Garden City Church in Silicon Valley. You can catch up with him online here or in his recent flurry of publications.[ref]Date Your Wife, Why Cities Matter, John: A 12-Week Study, Hebrews: Consider Jesus[/ref]In The Big Story: How The Bible Makes Sense Out of Life, Buzzard offers up…
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Prepared By Grace, For Grace
Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, and also a pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation. Oh, and also he writes books in his spare time, which is facilitated in no small measure by his teacher’s assistant Paul Smalley. Together, they’ve put together Prepared By…
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Interpreting The Pauline Letters: An Exegetical Handbook
John D. Harvey is Professor of New Testament and Dean of the Seminary & School of Ministry at Columbia International University. He has written several books and is not only the author of the book at hand, Interpreting the Pauline Letters: An Exegetical Handbook, but serves as the NT series editor. Future titles will include…
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Rethinking The Trinity & Religious Pluralism
Keith E. Johnson is national director of theological education for Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru). He also serves as guest professor of systematic theology for Reformed Theological Seminary, which is more or less right across the street from me. The book at hand, Rethinking The Trinity & Religious Pluralism: An Augustinian Assessment is a revised and expanded…
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The Epistle To The Hebrews (NICNT)
Gareth Lee Cockerill is professor of New Testament and biblical theology at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He has previously contributed to a book on the warning passages in Hebrews, as well as written numerous journal articles related to Hebrews. Now, he has gifted us with the newest installment in the NICNT series, which…
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Tweets of The Week 6.15.13
It’s that time of the week again. Here’s a new round of tweets: I love my friend Jesus because he does all things well. Like sovereignly placing Tebow with the Pats. Good one, Jesus. — jaredcwilson (@jaredcwilson) June 10, 2013 Our Move to Tennessee and New Projects — Today’s #AskPastorJohn podcast (audio): http://t.co/G7Mcb2Giqc — Desiring…
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Jesus Is Lord, Casear Is Not
In early April, IVP Academic sent me a copy of Jesus is Lord, Caesar is Not: Evaluating Empire in New Testament Studies. I don’t think I formally requested it since it is a bit more of a niche NT book than I would normally read. But I was definitely intrigued, especially after reading Peter Leithart’s…
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Between Babel and Beast: America and Empire in Biblical Perspective
I don’t usually read books on politics. I did review Grudem’s Politics According to The Bible a while back, but that might be the only book that was expressly political. In conjunction with my lack of political reading, I don’t usually read a lot of books on America, either from a pre-millennial eschatological perspective or…
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Tweets of The Week 6.8.13
Better late than never, once again, this week’s tweets of the week: Today you’ll be tempted to assign to yourself strength you don’t have and try to do what you can’t do on your own. There’s grace for this. — Paul David Tripp (@PaulTripp) June 3, 2013 Comedic license ≠ stealing. This is something comedians…
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Outreach And The Artist: Sharing The Gospel With The Arts
It is hard to imagine two books could be any more different. Back in the fall, I reviewed Constantine Campbell’s Paul and Union With Christ, an encyclopedic study of both the exegetical and theological usage of Paul’s “in Christ” language. It was thorough, exhaustive, and top of the line NT scholarship. Apparently, Campbell is not…
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