John Frame's new Systematic Theology starts out with a good point, one I've always (at least since reading Frame) felt is important: This is not Frame's way of evading the careful spade-work necessary to form up a good theological definition. His book (I'm confident...
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The Elites
The American Heritage Dictionary advertises its Usage Panel fairly prominently on its web page: The Usage Panel is a group of nearly 200 prominent scholars, creative writers, journalists, diplomats, and others in occupations requiring mastery of language. The...
Smith on Genesis 1 and Societal Institutions
I derived some real profit from this James K. A. Smith editorial and the entire issue of Comment in which it appeared. Read the issue on a single flight; very convenient. I'm not quite on Smith's theological page—I've not read enough to discern exactly what page he's...
Fish on Academic Freedom
I call in thinkers like C. S. Lewis and Stanley Fish when I need some incision—when I need someone to help me cut through the rhetoric, to help me get down to those little tacks made of a copper-zinc alloy. Those little things are, it seems, always there. Issues...
James K. A. Smith on CCM
While doing a little Internet poking around on James K. A. Smith, I stumbled across this choice quotation from the pleistocine era of the blogosphere (namely about eight months ago). Sorry I missed it: Trevin Wax: How would you respond to the person who says the forms...
A Good Intro to the Neo-Calvinism vs. Two Kingdoms Debate
From an excellent, brief article on Neo-Calvinism vs. Two Kingdoms theology by David Koyzis: From my readings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Rawls and many other professed liberals, I have come to conclude that liberalism must be understood in terms of its...
BibleWorks Seminar Follow-Up
Many thanks to the guys who came out to my six-hour BibleWorks seminar on Saturday. We all worked hard, and you came out way ahead of where you were when you started. And I discovered that Presbyterians do, in fact, eat donuts. Here are all my posts on Unicode, as...
WallBuilders and Media Ecology
I met an interesting, globe-trotting conservative Pentecostal technology wonk at a conference I recently attended. A sharp guy who has done significant thinking and speaking about the problems created in our brains by the overuse and misuse of technology,...