Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Fools Rush In Where Monkeys Fear to Tread
Though it’s been a while since he’s made an on appearance on here, Carl Trueman is probably one of my favorite writers. While there is certainly a plethora of Christian theologians writing books, and many of those books well written treatises, few of those books are written with the literary and satirical flourish that Carl…
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History, Wisdom, Counseling, and Drama
Over the past several weeks, we made our way through three review series. One was on Jesus, one the resurrection, and one on justification. By doing a series, I was able to say more about the books in question, but was also better able to process what I had read. I decided that was a…
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Baptisms, Justification, Resurrection, and History
My Posts From This Week New post in What We’re up To In Ministry: Baptisms in The Swimming Pool Finished review series: Justification: Conclusion New book review: Historical Theology: An Introduction to Bible Doctrine Finished review series: The Resurrection of The Son of God: Conclusion Book Received RetroChristianity by Michael J. Svigel Top Links From Twitter 7th-graders stop…
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The Resurrection of The Son of God: Conclusion
Unlike the conclusion to Jesus and The Victory of God, the last section in The Resurrection of The Son of God is still a section in its own right making up about 50 pages or so. Before getting to the final section, so far we’ve covered the following areas in historical survey: Setting the Scene Resurrection in…
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Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine
Back in the fall, I attempted a review series for Gregg R. Allison’s Historical Theology. It didn’t quite go the distance as you can see by this list: Introduction Canonicity and Inspiration of Scripture Authority and Inerrancy of Scripture The reason for the abandonment was not because the book wasn’t stellar. And it wasn’t because I…
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Justification: Conclusion
In working through Justification: Five Views, here’s where we’ve been: Justification: History and Contemporary Debate Justification: The Roman Catholic View (Gerald O’Collins and Oliver Rafferty) Justification: The Lutheran Deification View (Veli-Matti Karkkainen) Justification: The New Perspective on Paul View (James D. G. Dunn) Justification: The Traditional Reformed View (Michael S. Horton) Justification: The Progressive Reformed View (Michael F. Bird) Having looked…
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Baptisms in the Swimming Pool
[This post is part of the What Are We Up To In Ministry? series] As I mentioned a while back, our church meets in a local YMCA. That being the case, we don’t exactly have a baptistry, but we do have a nice pool. So, when someone professes faith in Christ and wants to make…
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Holy Week, Atonement, Easter, and Jesus
My Posts From This Week Salvation Accomplished by The Son: The Work of Christ Justification: The Progressive Reformed View New/Old Series: Atonement Event: SHIFT One Day: Apologetics Seminar Jesus and The Victory of God: Conclusion KONY 2012: Part 2 The Story of Easter Holy Week From Justin Taylor What Happened on Monday of Holy Week?…
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The Story of Easter
[This post is part of the Christian Origins and The Question of God series] Three weeks ago, thanks to Fortress Press we were able to start into a review series through N. T. Wright’s The Resurrection of The Son of God with a look at the first century background context. Then we looked at the writings of Paul for his take on the resurrection…
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KONY 2012: Part 2
There’s now a new video as part of the KONY 2012 campaign. It is definitely a step moving beyond merely making Joseph Kony famous and toward actually taking action. I think its a step in the right direction, but there’s still a ways to go. KONY 2012 is an interesting project, but not without its…
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