Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Drama of Doctrine: The Performance
[This post is part of The Drama of Doctrine review series] Several weeks ago, we started our way through Kevin Vanhoozer’s The Drama of Doctrine. We’ve looked at the drama, the script, and the dramaturge. That leaves the section on the performance before we wrap up next week. As Vanhoozer explains: The burden of part 4 is…
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Dispatches From The Front DVD Set
Westminster Bookstore has 72 hour sale (well, 56 at this point) on the Dispatches From the Front DVD Set. You can get the 5 DVD set for $30 right now, which is 60% off. To see what they have to offer, here’s a preview of one of the episodes: And here’s the rest of the…
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God Without Parts
During my second semester at seminary, I took the required class ST102, otherwise known as “Trinitarianism.” In the course of my reading, I was led into the world of philosophical theology, and by the end of the semester was tinkering with the idea of transferring to a different seminary. Not because I didn’t like Dallas mind you,…
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What Should I Do Differently?
I decided this was a good week to take a blogging break. Instead of crafting blog posts (among other things), I’ll be doing more of what you see pictured (not pictured: still reading). Now, I know what you’re thinking, but no, I’ll only be at the pool, not driving the long hour to Cocoa Beach…
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June Editorial
June is finally here, and the last day of school came to a close yesterday afternoon. It is more or less officially summer, although in Florida summer is more of a way of life than a season. In any case, I now have a couple of months of prepping ahead of me for my much…
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Marturo Collective Reading: Popologetics
After a brief hiatus, we’re picking back up with a book for the Marturo Collective. Since the focus has been on apologetics, and given that a) summer is upon us, and b) we all like movies and pop culture generally, Ted Turnau’s recently released Popologetics seems like a great choice. I haven’t read through the…
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Keeping the UPS and USPS Guys Busy
It has been quite a while since I alerted you to any books I’ve received. Part of that was because there was a lull in shipments, and part of that is because I stopped doing a weekly update post. However, the time has come to rectify the situation and let you see what’s in the…
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The Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments
Last week, we looked into Walt Kaiser’s Recovering The Unity of The Bible. Today, we’ve got his older and more comprehensive work The Promise-Plan of God. The first part of this book is comes from Kaiser’s older book Toward an Old Testament Theology and presents a biblical theology of the Old Testament books. The second part then…
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Recovering The Unity of The Bible: One Continuous Story, Plan, and Purpose
I’ve been familiar with the name Walt Kaiser since early on in college. One of my first professors used several of his sources, but I hadn’t personally read anything by him until now. Originally delivered as a set of 16 lectures at Cambridge Summer School of Theology, Recovering the Unity of the Bible is a very reader-friendly…
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Platform: Get Noticed In A Noisy World
This may seem like a book slightly outside my usual recommendations, but is definitely worth checking out. Especially if you’re a blogger, or any kind of communicator, you should look into getting Michael Hyatt’s Platform this week since he is offering 7 free bonuses: A video series expanding on the core topics of Platform A…
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