Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Reading Scripture Triperspectivally
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] Working off of the post last Friday mapping out John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, there’s an application we can make to how we read Scripture. The more you understand the triperspectival Framework, the more you see areas where can be applied. The danger…
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Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice
In Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice, professor of philosophy Kent Dunnington takes the traditional ways of thinking about addiction and flips the paradigm. That probably tells you little about what the book really talks about, but as the subtitle bears out, people typically conceive of addictions as either the result…
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A Triperspectival Map of DKG
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, we’re reading through John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (DKG) in the reading for The Marturo Collective. We’re reading through chapters 2 and 3 this week, and it’s at that point that Frame first introduces his notion of perspectivalism.…
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Footnotes to The Drama
As it is often remarked, the history of western philosophy of more or less a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead originally voiced this sentiment (“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”), but others have quoted him in agreement, and…
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John Frame’s Advice For Young Theologians #11-20
As I explained in the original post, these pieces of advice come from “Reflections of a Lifetime Theologian” in Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame. Reflecting back on his career in teaching and his life of ministry, he offers off the cuff in an interview 30 nuggets of advice. Here’s the next…
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The Sixth Sense and The Gospels
I would imagine everyone who wants to has seen The Sixth Sense as this point. This illustration though could work with almost any M. Night Shyamalan film (except for Avatar, and maybe another couple, ok, so maybe not every one). If you haven’t seen the movie, I’m going to ruin the ending for you… right…
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Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology
This may not happen every week, but since I’d like to read on average a book a week (in addition to the 12 bigger books to plod through) there will be a “book of the week.” In many cases, they won’t be books for review, but hey, maybe if there’s enough interest I might review…
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William Shedd’s Dogmatic Theology
You may or may not have noticed, but I changed out one of the books on my 12 Books I’m Looking Forward to Tackling in 2012 list. As much as I wanted to read Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics (and still plan to dabble in here and there), I just wasn’t going to have time to do…
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5 Symphonic Themes in Jonathan Edwards’ Theology
Another book I’m tackling in 2012 is The Theology of Jonathan Edwards. So far, and not surprisingly, I’ve really been drawn into this one. Right off the bat, authors Michael McClymond and Gerald McDermott offer 5 recurring themes in Edwards’ theology. They use the metaphor of attending a symphony and how different hearers hear different…
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John Frame’s Advice for Young Theologians #1-10
John Frame has spent over 40 years in ministry teaching in various seminaries. Having actually gotten the chance to read about his life and to meet with him in person, I can say he is the real deal when it comes to living what you teach. The following comes from an interview titled “Reflections of…
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