Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Unrelieved Paradox
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was a completely green seminary student sitting in a class on research methods. It was being taught by the seminary librarian, and he happened to mention a theologian I hadn’t heard much, if anything about. His name (the theologian, not the librarian) was Franz Bibfeldt, and the…
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End of The Month Mailbag
Just like last month, and a bit earlier this month, here’s a post dedicated to the book haul I’m ending the month with. I got back to Orlando last night after cramming a 10 hour drive into 14. Ali was finishing up getting her bi-monthly massage so I was initially greeted by three packages. Inside I…
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Jesus The Messiah: Tracing The Promises, Expectations, and Coming of Israel’s King
When I was taking my 3rd and 4th semester Hebrew classes, Dr. Johnston mentioned a book he was working on with Darrell Bock about Messianic prophecy. I really liked Dr. Johnston’s scholarship, and so I was really looking forward to the book’s eventual release. That was in 2009. Now, over 3 years later, I finally…
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[Obligatory Blog Post About Gay Marriage]
Yesterday afternoon, I drafted out a long blog post detailing why I’m for marriage inequality (on inequality in general, see this). Last night, I engaged in a little Facebook dialoguing on a friend’s status update. I decided two things after doing so: I want to re-frame my argument in light of the objections the atheist brought…
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Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling
Though it doesn’t dominate my blogging conversations, I’ve been interested in counseling in the church since the end of my time at Word of Life. It was for my last intensive class that I was introduced to Ed Welch’s When People Are Big and God Is Small, and it was long after before I was…
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Doctrine: Cross
Though not originally scheduled, because I was in town we had Doctrine class last night. What I went through in PowerPoint form was adapted from a PDF I made last year called The Person and Work of Christ. That itself was a condensed and rearranged form of Robert Peterson’s book Salvation Accomplished by The Son: The Work…
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Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of The Church
When I was in seminary, we used Bruce Demarest’s The Cross and Salvation as our textbook in soteriology. That was my introduction to the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series, and I liked it so much I picked up another volume, To Know and Love God, which proved very useful for theological method. When I was…
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Everything You Need To Know About Rob Bell
Maybe the title is a little overstated, but if you keep reading I will give an accurate synopsis of every Rob Bell book ever (past, present, and future). Not to overgeneralize, nor to stereotype Bell, but he is pretty predictable. And if he is faithfully living up to the predictions of wiser observers, it is…
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Mini-Review: Calvin and The Reformed Tradition
What does it mean to be a Calvinist? Was Calvin even a Calvinist? Does being Reformed mean you follow every jot and tittle in Calvin’s writings? Did Calvin actually teach TULIP? These are some of the questions that underlie the essays in Richard Muller’s Calvin and The Reformed Tradition: On The Work of Christ and The…
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Doctrine: Incarnation
Last night, we continued on with Doctrine class. I would give you a PDF of the PPT slide, but here is a link to more or less the same content in blog post form. In the slides (and post) I mention this book several times and would highly commend it to you on issues related…
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