Category Archives: Books

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →