Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Jesus and The Victory of God: Conclusion
At this point, I’ve already done the survey of the three main parts of the book: Introduction Profile of a Prophet The Aims and Beliefs of Jesus Since Wright’s conclusion spans 5 pages and does what a good conclusion should (doesn’t introduce radically new information) there is really not much to comment on there. Instead,…
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SHIFT One Day: Apologetics Seminar
[This post is part of the What Are We up to in Ministry? series] This Saturday, I’ll be talking to a group of college students at UCF about evidences for the Christian faith. It’s part of SHIFT Orlando, which is student organization on the campus of UCF (click thru to read more about their ministry!)…
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Atonement
A couple of years ago at this time, I worked through a series of posts on the atonement. I need to probably go back and revisit some of the content for my Second Thoughts series, but first I needed to unify the posts onto a series landing page. So, here are my two year old…
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Justification: The Progressive Reformed View
[This is part of the Justification: Five Views mini-series] Over the past few weeks, thanks to IVP Academic, we’ve been journeying through Justification: Five Views. Today is the last formal view, and we’ll wrap up with a summary post next week. Michael F. Bird represents a progressive Reformed view on justification, which he differentiates from a traditional…
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Salvation Accomplished By The Son: The Work of Christ
A few weeks back, I told you I was working my way through this book for lent. There I mentioned that Robert Peterson divides his study on the work of Christ into two sections: Events Pictures As Peterson himself says, there is really only one work of Christ, but that work accomplishes our salvation through nine Events:…
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Weekly Digest: On-Going Review Series, God is Love, and Matt Chandler
My Posts From This Week Justification: The Traditional Reformed View Excellence: The Character of God and The Pursuit of Scholarly Virtue The Aims and Beliefs of Jesus Resurrection in Early Christianity Books Received God is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology by Gerald Bray Top Links From My Twitter Feed Texas and its colonies —…
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Resurrection in Early Christianity
[This post is part of the Christian Origins and The Question of God series] Two 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. Last week we were able to survey the writings of Paul for…
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The Aims and Beliefs of Jesus
[This post is part of the Christian Origins and The Question of God series] Two weeks ago we started working through Jesus and The Victory of God thanks to Fortress Press sending me a review copy. Last week we covered the biggest chunk of the book. Now that we’ve seen Jesus’ profile as a prophet, we can examine the conclusions N.…
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Excellence: The Character of God and The Pursuit of Scholarly Virtue
Every now and then I’ll read a book that feels like it came at just the right time. Working my way through Andreas Kostenberger’s recent book Excellence, was just one of the those times. Post-seminary, I’m finding myself in a kind of no-man’s land. I went to seminary to train for the academy, but I’m…
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Justification: The Traditional Reformed View
[This is part of the Justification: Five Views mini-series] We’ve now come to the second to last view in Justification: Five Views. Thanks to IVP Academic, we’ve been working through a view a week as we move closer to Easter. Though separate views, both this view and the next fall into a broadly construed “Reformed” context. The difference…
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