Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Education For Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective
Paul D. Spear & Steven R. Loomis, Education For Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, September, 2009. 251 pp. Paperback, $22.00. Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to IVP Academic for the review copy! So far, I’ve been pretty impressed with IVP’s Christian Worldview Integration Series. I’ve read the book on communication, and here on the blog…
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Why I Dropped the Horner Bible Reading Plan
[UPDATE: See my re-engagement with the Horner Plan in 2014] A while back, I told you about a Bible reading plan that was developed by Prof. Grant Horner. Thanks to Tim Challies I was introduced to this plan and decided to start it at the beginning of this year. It was part of a 3650 challenge…
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Warfield and Triperspectival Apologetics
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] Up until this year, I hadn’t really done any kind of lengthy interaction with B. B. Warfield. As much you can envision such a thing, I’ve metaphorically danced around his ideas (go ahead and picture that) but haven’t really read much of his writings. This…
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Book of the Month: The Revelation of God
As I mentioned in the reading schedule, there will often be a book of the month. I might read it in the course of a week, or I might spread it out over the whole month. Just depends on how life goes. This month, I’m turning the corner from a metaphysical/scientific focus to a focus…
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Thesis Published In Antithesis
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 way of watching movies. You…
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Weekly Recap: 2.4.12
I’m trying this out on the blog this month, let me know if you like it! My Posts From This Week Book of the Week: Where the Conflict Really Lies Because of my overall research focus this month (science/metaphysics), this is a great way to cap the month off. Plantinga is a brilliant philosopher, so…
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The Evolution of Adam: A Review
Yesterday, I offered you some important preliminaries, so today we’ll dive into an actual review of The Evolution of Adam. Peter Enns considers his primary audience to be first Christians, and second people who think evolution needs to be taken seriously. Because of that, his aim “is to speak to those who feel that a synthesis between a…
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The Evolution of Adam: Preliminary Issues
Yesterday, we looked at C. John Collins’ Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? and as promised today we’ll begin the discussion of Peter Enns newest book The Evolution of Adam as part of a Brazos Blog Tour. Given that the book is mostly focused on biblical studies and hermeneutical issues, it is really more concerned with…
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Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?
Though I didn’t particularly plan it this way, it works out this week to offer you two reviews of books roughly covering the same subject. Today, I’ve got C. John Collins perspective in Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? and tomorrow, I’ll have Peter Enns perspective in The Evolution of Adam. The two perspectives are…
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My Personal Reading Schedule
Or, how do I plan to getting all those books read? Some of you have asked this, either in the comments or via Twitter, so here’s what the reading schedule looks like. I haven’t assimilated everything into an Excel spreadsheet at this point, so I’m really giving you the philosophy behind the scheduling. Basically, books…
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