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Trinity
when one goes outside the ‘Christendom’ situation to bring the Gospel to non-Christians, one soon discovers that the doctrine of the Trinity is not something that can be kept out of sight; on the contrary, it is the necessary starting … Continue reading
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Discriminating
Finally, there may be a fourth group of readers who take a favorable view of the book as a whole and who regard it as one of its virtues to have incurred the disapproval of the other three groups. It … Continue reading
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Examined Lives
James Miller describes one path through the history of ideas in his book Examined Lives: from Socrates to Nietzsche. However, as Edward Feser points out in his review in the June/July 2011 First Things, the book places more emphasis upon … Continue reading
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Ontological Splendor of the Concrete
Glenn C. Arbery begins an article about Flannery O’Connor with: Toward the end of her life, Flannery O’Connor was often asked to speak about being a Southerner, as though this were a peculiar condition in need of explanation. In “The … Continue reading
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Freedom and the Trinity
From an article by Paul Molnar: There is then a thread that runs through the theologians we have briefly canvassed in this article. That commonality suggests there is a tendency to allow experience rather than the Word of God revealed … Continue reading
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The World I’m Studying
This blog is about the world I’m studying: the world in which I perceive myself to live. Not an imaginary world but, on the other hand, not the “world as it is” – whatever that would mean. The little library … Continue reading
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The School of Sanctification
John Joseph Haldane, a noted contemporary philosopher and author of Faithful Reason (2004) and Reasonable Faith (2010), had an article in First Things back in 1998 entitled The School of Sanctification on Christian education. Here’s a brief excerpt: G. K. … Continue reading
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Historical Slides to Unitarianism
Regarding Newman’s claim that Calvinism tends, historically, to slide into Unitarianism, a post by Tertium Quid connects this with our sensory human nature: ….Thus, if you look at the history of Calvinism in several countries, it follows a pattern: zeal … Continue reading
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The Last Superstition
From the St Augustine Press page on Feser’s book The Last Superstition: …there is not, and never has been, any war between science and religion at all. There has instead been a conflict between two entirely philosophical conceptions of the … Continue reading
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Pagan Christianity
[I've updated links on this 2008 posting] There are useful critiques of Viola & Barna’s 2008 book, Pagan Christianity, over on Ben Witherington’s blog. To quote a bit from the second posting (July 1, 2008): Small group gatherings are wonderful … Continue reading
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Why the News Makes Us Dumb
From First Things: What happens when you sell information on a daily basis? You have to make each day’s report seem important, and you do this primarily by reducing the importance of its context. What you are selling is change, … Continue reading
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The Age of Faith and Reason
From an article by Michael F. Flynn: To summarize briefly, the Latins believed that: The universe was rationally ordered because a single rational God had willed it into being, This order was knowable by autonomous human reason by ‘measuring, numbering, … Continue reading
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The Context of Scripture
From a Called to Communion article: The context of Scripture is not merely within its pages, but is the living organism which is the Body of Christ, i.e. the Church. Since the gospel teaches us that Christ founded a Church … Continue reading
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The Protestant Ethos
The 20th anniversary edition of First Things has many interesting little snapshots of past articles. One in particular caught my attention: Charlotte Allen’s review of Harvard historian Steven Ozment’s book Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution in her article The … Continue reading
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Reading Tolkein
Tolkein’s foreward to 2nd edition of The Lord of the Rings has this very interesting comment: But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so siince I grew old and wary enough to detect its … Continue reading
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Literacy
The current issue of Modern Reformation has a sharply focused article by David R. Nienhuis titled “The Problem of Evangelical Biblical Illiteracy : A View from the Classroom” – of course, the problem is widespread and not limited to evangelical … Continue reading
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Conversion Testimony
Besides being lazy (sloth being my besetting sin), the main reason I don’t post a conversion testimony is that there are many already that say better what I’d say – for example Richard Neuhaus, Scott Hahn, Douglas Farrow, Pam Forrester … Continue reading
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Friday’s Flannery
On this Respect Life week, and having just come back from the March for Life rally in Washington, the article on Flannery O’Connor’s story A Stroke of Good Fortune at the Black Cordelias blog is particularly interesting. The article and … Continue reading
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Development of Doctrine
On Newman’s book: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, reprinted from the 1888 imprint, “is rightly regarded as one of the most seminal theological works ever to be written,” states Ian Ker in his foreword. “It remains,” Ker … Continue reading
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A Secular Age
From Michael Morgan’s review of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age: . . . If one form of Christianity sought to transcend the body, suffering, violence, and evil, another form, more humanistic, failed to appreciate the depth and seriousness of the … Continue reading
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