Tim Keller MP3s
A friend e-mailed after my post yesterday recommending Tim Keller's The Reason for God . He suggested I provide a link to Keller MP3s on the Internet. I have not listened to even the majority of these recently collected Keller resources, but if you want to start somewhere I suggest listening to a few talks on "defeater beliefs," evangelistic material which made it into his book. Or try these two stimulating lectures I just listened to in the last two days, delivered at the Highland Theological...
The Reason for Buying Keller
I began listening to Tim Keller MP3s at the recommendation of a friend a few years ago. He never fails to stimulate and challenge me. (And he's a real wit.) As I heard him give wise point after incisive comment about evangelism, I knew I had to buy whatever book he put out on the subject. I wasn't disappointed. The Reason for God has been a real help to me as I prepare myself for difficult questions in evangelism. (Right now, I'm not getting any difficult questions because my current harvest...
Joy, Part 3
An addendum to the previous post. Try out the common definition of joy as non-emotional action on your wife: "Honey, I rejoice in you by taking out the trash and mowing the lawn, despite what you are actually like! My joy in our marriage exists independent of any qualities inherent in you; I give my joy freely as a gift to one who is not worthy of it! And my joy is not an emotion, so you can count on its constancy! Honey...? Honey!? Where are you going!!"
Joy, Part 2
I asked commenters recently to evaluate the following definition: Joy is the feeling that comes from something good happening to an object you love. And now for my view: I agree. I believe it's especially important that we view joy as a feeling, an emotion. Here is a brief excerpt from an otherwise helpful reference work that apparently disagrees, the New Dictionary on Biblical Theology: Joy is a quality, and not simply an emotion, of which God is both the object (Ps. 16:11; Phil. 4:4), and...
Joy
All right, you commenters. Now help me out here. What do you think of the following definition of "joy"? Joy is the feeling that comes from something good happening to an object you love. I won't tell you whether or not I agree with this definition, only that it comes from a book I'm re-reading for my dissertation, Faithful Feelings: Rethinking Emotions in the New Testament (p. 166). So... What do you think of this definition? Whatever you think, is this what you usually hear? If not, what do...