I’ll admit that Bart Ehrman is more likely to get a yawn than a cheer or a jeer from me; I’ve been aware of the Jesus Seminar and N.T. Wright’s engagement with them for long enough that, when Ehrman became a talk-TV celebrity, I could pretty much anticipate his lines before he delivered them. Nonetheless, Mike Morell [...]
Through the River: Understanding Your Assumptions about Truth I should start this post with an apology to Mike Morell and the other folks at Ooze Viral Blogs: I’m certain they sent me this book some time in October, but I’m just now finishing up, well past the 30 days that we’re supposed to take to [...]
Well, it’s been eleven days now since doctors put us on “any day now” notice, but that’s just not binding on a little girl, I suppose. ?No baby yet. I’m also approaching the halfway point of Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion, and I’ve been scribbling furiously for a blog review of it. ?I know [...]
Several months ago, I wanted to take the Sunday school class I teach through some systematic theology, so I thought I might want to look into Coffee House Theology, which I had heard about on Homebrewed Christianity. ?Unfortunately, I remembered the title wrong, and I got Coffee Shop Theology instead. ?In my ignorance, I quickly [...]
Reading Habits I really enjoyed this e-interview that Smith recently posted on his blog. ?The whole thing is worth reading and thinking on, but my favorite exchange came at the end of the interview: What would you tell a college student about approaching their required reading lists? Look, you won’t listen to this, but I’ve [...]
Summary Post of Division One of Being and Time Division Two Posts Part 1: Being-Towards-Death Part 2: Resoluteness Part 3: Temporality Part 4: Historicality I remember well the final exam to my Ancient Greco-Roman Philosophy class at Milligan College. ?It was a take-home exam, and our task therein was to write a letter to a [...]
Once Heidegger has established anticipation (the engagement of particulars in the upcoming moment as a being having-been part of a robust world) as the character of authentic resoluteness, the next logical step is to talk about how that resoluteness might relate to history as a philosophical category. “Only that entity which is ‘between’ birth and [...]
Some people, I realize, think that philosophy is an insidious pastime that makes muddy what was perfectly clear before. ?I happen to be one of those people who thinks that many of the schemata I once thought clear were actually inadequate to the realities they purported to explain. ?This discussion might just remind you, O [...]
So the nature of Dasein, that order of being that can say “there is a person called me,” is Being-towards-death, which can inauthentically pretend that one’s demise is simply an event among other events that doesn’t affect what happens until then; or can live authentically, ordering everyday life in the face of the not-being that [...]
Several months ago, I posted a five-part series discussing intersections of Division One of Heidegger’s Being and Time and Christian thought. ?Michial Farmer and I continued the book after that, finishing it up this summer, but with a new job and everything else swirling around, I haven’t had a chance to write about it. ?But [...]
First, I send thanks over to Tripp Fuller for sending me a copy of this book.? It appears that being a HBC Deacon has its benefits. ?The funny thing is that, when I found it in my old TA mailbox (I was turning in my office key, having moved out), I had no idea why [...]
My title will make more sense to those who have read some Stanley Hauerwas. ?His books were, as far as I can remember, my introduction to post-liberal theology, my encounters with John Howard Yoder and George Lindbeck and others coming years later. ?Hauerwas’s content is important, but people talk about him because of his style: [...]
Back in May, when I reviewed Will Samson’s book Enough, Robert Pankey (whose suggestions I tend to take seriously) suggested that I look at William T. Cavanaugh’s latest for the sake of comparison.? And so, never being one to turn down an opportunity to buy books online, I promptly ordered Cavanaugh’s latest book. The book [...]
Now summer can proceed.? After brief delays on account of VBS and travel, I’ve finished this summer’s reading of Dante.? Once again, although Mark Musa is a professor and John Ciardi a poet, the latter still offers far better reading notes throughout, and I noticed things this time through that I hadn’t before. Those bits [...]
I’m gladder than I was before that I picked up the John Ciardi translation of the Comedy. ?For the first time I have some idea why Cato of Utica, who was a pre-Christian pagan (so he should at least have been in Limbo), a suicide (so he should have been in Hell with the other [...]
This actually happened a couple months ago, but I’m never up to speed with such things, am I? As I mentioned in my recent exchange with Slim and Ben, one of the coolest things about the CIY conference that I wrote about was that, bound with the weekend’s program, CIY gave every conference attendee a [...]
I took the plunge this summer and decided to leave Mark Musa’s translation of Dante on the shelf. I looked at five different candidates, and I decided to use a 40% off coupon at Borders to get John Ciardi’s translation.? The footnotes are better than Mark Musa’s and the best I could find at Borders, [...]
I can read most Enlightenment-era atheists without a problem; I taught David Hume and Tom Paine (both of whom or neither of whom was really an atheist, depending on whom you ask) this spring, and although I could reproduce the shapes of their arguments for the sake of teaching them, neither strikes me as particularly [...]
I learned that lesson a few days ago–I downloaded a third-party utility that was supposed to be able to convert .rtf files into .lrf files (the native format for the Sony Reader), and I got visions of turning Early English Books Online documents into books to read on my Sony. Bad idea. The third party [...]
I heard about this project from the good folks at the Ooze a while ago, and, never able to resist free books, I signed up.? The terms of the deal are that, when I want to, I can request a new theology book that the Ooze is featuring, and as long as I agree to [...]
