ACPADI Book Club—Creation Regained Week 2, Chapter 2: “Creation”
It’s hard to write a brief post on this chapter! Don’t feel you have to read the whole summary; it’s here for your use and mine both now and in the future. Just pick out what interests you in the book, scan my post to see if I added anything, and make a comment. Creation Vs. Providence Let’s make sure we nail down what Wolters is doing at the beginning of the chapter. First he argues that you can’t really draw a firm and clear distinction between God’s creation of the world and His...
BJU Campus Store Review—God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible, Vaughan Roberts
This review was written for the BJU Campus Store blog. The Campus Store knows that a lot of people buy books online, so it is attempting to provide another service: reliable recommendations from people who (are supposed to) know what they’re talking about. The Bible tells one story and focuses on one Subject. This simple point—it really is one point—has been revolutionary for my reading and understanding of the Old Testament. And Vaughan Roberts’ book, God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline...
Three Effects of New Technologies, From Someone Who Was Both More and Less Truly Oracular Than McLuhan
Neil Postman was more oracular than Marshall McLuhan because his predictions, in my limited experience, came true more spectacularly. Postman was less oracular than McLuhan because his predictions made sense to normal people. One of Postman’s predictions/descriptions applies so perfectly to the Internet that it sounds like it was written yesterday. But it’s now 20 years old and, obviously, hit print before the Internet became a daily reality for most Americans. This is what he wrote, in a...
McLuhan Quote 3
Today, a kind of quote from McLuhan which gives rise to the kind of article Alan Jacobs just wrote at The New Atlantis. Some of McLuhan’s pronouncements are so confidently oracular and yet so nonsensical that you sort of scratch your head and say, “I guess he’s just smarter than I am.” Every medium retrieves a much older function? Really? Marshall McLuhan: The laws of the media, which are like the [law of the] Medes and the Persians, are quite simply this: that every medium exaggerates some...
ACPADI Book Club—Creation Regained Week 1, Chapter 1: “What Is a Worldview?”
In these posts I’m not going to try to repeat what Wolters said—you just read that—but to try to pick out key ideas and explain and defend (or critique!) them. I’m going to say what I would say if the ACPADI Book Club/Βλογάπη Book Consortium were meeting in my living room. Clearing Away Objections Let me first try to clear away a few objections readers in the Club may have: Wolters opens by citing some names we don’t normally cite (Vollenhoven, Bavinck, Kuyper, Dooyeweerd) and appealing to a...