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What I'm Reading

  • Luke for Everyone (For Everyone)
    Luke for Everyone (For Everyone)
    Author: Tom Wright
  • The Philosophy of John Duns Scotus
    The Philosophy of John Duns Scotus
    Author: Antonie Vos
  • Calvin, Participation, and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology)
    Calvin, Participation, and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology)
    Author: J. Todd Billings
  • The Confessions (Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 1- Books)
    The Confessions (Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 1- Books)
    Author: St. Augustine
  • The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus: An Introduction
    The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus: An Introduction
    Author: Mechthild Dreyer

Archive for May, 2008

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In the final section of Billings’ book, Calvin, Participation, and the Gift:  The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ, he suggests various ways in which Calvin’s theology of participation might speak into our current theological milieu.
While Calvin’s theology of participation is wide-ranging, it is distinctive in relation to contemporary discussion, because it brings together [...]

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The following is taken from a transcription of a lecture given by Alvin Plantinga.  I have at times summarized his points, but for the most part the content is his.  I have also uploaded the full transcription, which you can obtain here.  If you want to hear the lecture for yourself, click here.
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My husband and I recently watched an excellent movie by Khaled Hosseini entitled, ”The Kite Runner,” about which my husband gives his reflections here.  If you have a soft spot for orphans (as we do) and love films that speak to issues of friendship, loyalty, the value of human beings, and the possibilities of the transforming power of love, then this [...]

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What was the only chapter topic never altered in the many revisions of John Calvin’s Institutes?  Was it predestination?  No.  Was it his discussion of human depravity in our postlapsarian state?  Wrong again.  It was his discussion of prayer, which is also the longest chapter in the Institutes.  As Billings explains in his excellent book, [...]

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Is interpretation primarily about a relation between the reader and the subjective intentions of the author?  Might it be the case that the hermeneutical method that E.D. Hirsch espouses in his book, Validity in Interpretation, lands us right back into the egocentric predicament, as the sole goal of interpretation becomes re-producing the original subjective meaning [...]


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