George Marsden on Point of View
I've been thinking a good deal about what George Marsden wrote—in a book I have thoroughly enjoyed (two chapters to go and I'm really eager to see what he says in the final one): Let me say a word about point of view. One of the conventions of the mid-twentieth century was that authors and teachers normally did not identify their points of view but spoke as though they were neutral observers speaking on the basis of universal reason. Such practices reflected standards that went back to the...
NICOT/NICNT for Accordance
Here's the best deal I've ever seen for the whole New International Commentary series, the highest rated series at bestcommentaries.com (OT, NT).
Damon Linker on Liberal Secularism
Secular liberalism is a religion with fully fundamentalist adherents, just as Christianity is. So says self-described liberal, formerly of First Things, Damon Linker: From the dawn of the modern age, religious thinkers have warned that, strictly speaking, secular politics is impossible — that without the transcendent foundation of Judeo-Christian monotheism to limit the political sphere, ostensibly secular citizens would begin to invest political ideas and ideologies with transcendent,...
Carl Trueman at His Best
Carl Trueman on the use of natural law in today's public square: Today’s world is becoming a colder, harder place. Even so, we have ongoing civic responsibilities. Shaped by our faith, we too can speak to those in power. We must remind them of their responsibilities to protect the innocent and to punish the wicked. We must remind them of the fact that they, the magistrates, will ultimately answer to a higher authority. It is this consciousness of civic responsibility—and of a firm place to...
An Amish Romance Reader’s Dream
I'm underwhelmed. Amazon's Oyster-like subscription service appears to me to be a repackaging of the odd amalgamation of books already in the Kindle Owner's Lending Library. The Religion & Spirituality category is indeed chock full of Amish romance—and hundreds of books and authors I've never heard of. I haven't made an exhaustive search, but enough to conclude for myself that Oyster is a far better choice. They really had some good books—I just can't read them on my Kindle. Too...