Logos 4
Logos has put out a new version of their software, and they’ve added two new packages to their line-up. I’m hoping that the new engine will be faster and slicker than the old. It appears from the promo video that this is so! But my advice to potential buyers comes in two steps, following an outline suggested by Neil Postman: Logos Gives: Know what you’re buying before you buy it: get with someone who really knows books and add up the monetary print value of the good ones you will actually use....
Last Note from the Tilt-A-Whirl!
Nathan Wilson quotes Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative, then he invents an instructive dialogue between two students evaluating it: Kant’s categorical imperative: Act only according to maxims which you can desire to be universal. Student One: That doesn’t make sense. It’s a cheapened golden rule. Without a creating God imposing it, it’s entirely arbitrary. Logic can’t give you goodness, just validity. And if it could, how would a “rational” law achieve any actual authority in an...
Can’t Stop Tilting
Nathan Wilson feels sorry for the philosopher who urged the good riddance of the weak, only to end up deranged himself, cared for by his sister: I have never been irritated by Nietzsche, never annoyed. At his most blasphemous, at his most riotously hateful and pompous, I have only ever been able to laugh. But even then, there is something bittersweet about the laughter. I know his story. I know how his bluff was called, how he was broken. Again from The Anti-Christ: “The weak and the botched...
BibleWorks and Your Hundreds of Hours Studying Greek
Rod Decker's blog is definitely a must-subscribe for those who love the Greek New Testament. I strongly amen the note he plays in this post, the same note played (on a saxophone, in this case) by Con Campbell, someone who is also very serious about Greek. The upshot: BibleWorks and Logos give, and they take away.
1Marks Interview Series
At this year's very enjoyable BJU Seminary retreat at the Wilds, Dr. Robert Bell kindly agreed to sit for the first interview in what I hope to make a series, the 1Marks Interview Series. (While other ministries can afford to hire multiple Marks, βλογάπη has only one, and he actually pays to work here.) I apologize for the somewhat low audio quality; I made the mistake of adjusting the laptop (on loan from Grace & Knowledge) on two or three occasions, and loud, unpleasant sounds on the...