Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Psalms as Torah and Other Studies in Theological Interpretation
[This post is part of the What Is Theological Interpretation? series] Recently, Baker Academic has been very gracious in sending me several books. Two of those books, Psalms as Torah and The Character of Christian Scripture are part of an on-going series called Studies in Theological Interpretation. After looking at the other titles, I decided to…
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What Are We Up To In Ministry?
This picture is from a few weeks ago, but it’s the best way to frame what we’re really up to in ministry here in Florida. After church from time to time we have baptisms in the pool outside the YMCA where our church meets. The particular Sunday in the picture was when Jack, a new…
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Weekly Recap 2.18.12
My Posts From This Week 10 Book on Writing When I take the time and care, these books are what have helped me write well in the past and will continue to do so in the future. 10 Books on Marriage If you’ve already read all of these and discussed them with your spouse to…
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10 Books on Marriage
[This post is part of the 10 Books On… series] <A HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?rt=tf_cw&ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fmarturo-20%2F8010%2F00d3cf0c-9128-4cf5-a895-a464d2be951e&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A>Consider this post a kind of appendix to yesterday’s non-recommendation of Real Marriage. While I wasn’t overly optimistic about the value of Real Marriage, I don’t mean to imply that no one should ever read the book. Certainly people in my position should (to evaluate…
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Why I Don’t Recommend Real Marriage
When it comes to Mark Driscoll, the internet is never short on things to say. Plenty of reviewers have taken the time to present a thorough overview of Mark and Grace Driscoll’s Real Marriage (e.g. Challies, Burk, and Anderson Pt. 1 and Pt. 2). That being the case, I thought it might be helpful to just explain…
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Quality Vs. Appeal in Worship Music
[This post is part of the Revamping Christian Worship series] Consider this an appendix, or better, clarification, on an important aspect of How to Worship When You Think the Songs Suck. Based on the feedback, it seemed like many people didn’t like my criteria for determine a song’s “suck” factor. To quote myself for some context:…
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A Triperspectival Gospel
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] I’m only a couple of chapters into Peter Jensen’s The Revelation of God, but I’m already noticing triperspectival patterns showing up here and there. In his opening chapter, “The Gospel as Revelation,” he gives three grounds for believing that the gospel is the word of…
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10 Books on Writing
[This post is part of the 10 Books On… series] Sometimes, I think I was a better writer before seminary. Though it would be hard to prove it, I think you could easily see that before being immersed in academic reading for years on end, my voice came through my writing more clearly, and I…
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Weekly Recap: 2.11.12
My Posts From This Week Thesis Published The first part of my thesis was published by In Antithesis which is ”an online journal focused on the Presuppositional/Covenantal variety of apologetic methodology.” My thesis is titled Hollywood, Geneva, and Athens: A Reformed Philosophy of Film. I use Calvin’s aesthetics, Van Til’s apologetics, and Frame’s triperspectivalism to sketch out a…
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The Mysterious Epigenome: What Lies Beyond DNA
Thomas E. Woodward & James P. Gills, The Mysterious Epigenome: What Lies Beyond DNA. Grand Rapids, Kregel, December, 2011. 160 pp. Paperback, $13.99. Buy it: Amazon Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Kregel for the review copy! Like I said on Monday, I’m shifting the focus here to epistemology and revelation, I do still have one last review related to science/metaphysics: The Mysterious…
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