Genesis 1 and Exodus 19, A Canonical Connection
Do you find yourself baffled by the Old Testament? You want to apply it to your life, but many passages seem impenetrable and the lessons you hear drawn from others just don't ring true? One idea I was taught in seminary that has begun to yield some rich results for me is that of biblical theology (BT)—or I could also say worldview. That's because a rounded BT itself constitutes a worldview (see Wolters, 9). It answers the questions of why we're all here and where we're all going. One of the...
Logos for Mac
I just got this e-mail from my friend Jonathan Bolin, a Ph.D. student and teacher at Piedmont Baptist College and Graduate School. I asked him if I could share it with my blog readers (watch for his own blog coming out soon, perhaps!): I got my copy of Logos for Mac. I told you I'd let you know what I thought. Positives: Much faster than Logos for Windows (both in starting up and in searching) Ease in accessing resources (don't have to start up Parallels) Ease in searching Negatives: Several...
The Christian Theologically-Inclined Reader and Kindle 2 (aka Kindle Review)
I saved up for my Kindle for a good while, and I was very excited to receive it! I have not been disappointed. Here are a few of the major benefits: The Kindle has made available to me texts that hitherto had been locked onto my computer. It's just not convenient to take my laptop to bed with me—or to church, or to the Bi-Lo parking lot, or to a boring meeting. But now the articles and book chapters and whole books that lay dormant on my hard drive are getting read. The Kindle has also made...
Jacobs on Augustine on the Hermeneutic of Love
To persons who claim that their understanding of Scripture comes from God alone and not from mere humans, Augustine replies that God didn’t teach them the letters of the alphabet. —Alan Jacobs, A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
What's going to happen now that the internet has blown the old financial model which kept newspapers afloat for so long? An interesting essay by Clay Shirky suggests what I, too, think is the right answer: I don’t know. Nobody knows. We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it. The internet turns 40 this fall. Access by the general public is less than half that age.... We just got here. Even the revolutionaries can’t predict what will...