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A Vision for Christians in the Arts
Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts by Authors: Steve Turner Released: 01 May, 2001 ISBN: 0830822917 Paperback Customer Review #2: This is, quite simply, the best book on the issues surrounding the life of a modern day Christian artist that I have ever read–period. I say this for several reasons: 1. It is […]
The Marketplace of Ideas
Why Christians Should Examine All the Wares in the Marketplace of Ideas Robert Harris Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. –Proverbs 4:7 The heart of a liberal arts education is for the student to develop a wholeness of view, a circumspection, a breadth of understanding of the […]
Two Philosophers In Conversation
Excerpts from a conversation at Melbourne Writers’ Festival, reported in The Age August 23, 2004: Philosopher Raimond Gaita: ‘Professor Peter Singer is a consequentialist: he believes that whether something is right or wrong depends on the consequences of all those affected by it.’ Prof Gaita on the other hand became a philosopher because he believed […]
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
(1976, 1990), by Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes. “When Julian Jaynes…speculates that until late in the second millennium B.C. men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis through all the corroborative evidence…” -John Updike, in The New Yorker “This book and […]
Creative Thinking
Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the farmer’s debt if he could marry his daughter. […]
Love God With All Your Mind
Love God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul JP Moreland. This article first appeared in the Fall 1993 issue of the Christian Research Journal. … Book Highlights “From Old Testament times and ancient Greece until this century, the good life was widely understood to mean a life […]
The Hermit and the Explorer
“The Hermit and the Explorer” – Clifford Williams Picture two people, one a hermit and the other an explorer. The hermit shuts herself off from contacts with other people and also, let us suppose, from feeling and thinking. She displays few signs of vigor. When she ventures out for supplies, those who encounter her notice […]
Putting God on Trial: Review
Friends: (November 2004) Good news. Enclosed please find the Review of Biblical Literature review of my book “Putting God on Trial- The Biblical Book of Job’. It was very encouraging. Robert Sutherland Review of Biblical Literature, October 30, 2004, by Alice M Sinnott, Auckland University Auckland, New Zealand In this first volume of a promised […]
The Spirituality Revolution
DISCUSSING “THE SPIRITUALITY REVOLUTION” Notes Prepared for the Mission Studies Network, Melbourne, 21 October 2004, by Ross Langmead David Tacey, The spirituality revolution: The emergence of contemporary spirituality (Sydney: HarperCollins, 2003). This book argues passionately that a new approach to spirituality is growing in Western culture, particularly among the younger generation, and that it ought […]
The Big Story (Postmodernism)
THE BIG STORY by J. Budziszewski “Hi, Professor Theophilus – oh, your coffee! I didn’t mean to startle you.” “My fault, Sarah. I didn’t know you were there. Hand me that spill towel, would you? Right behind you – on the hook.” “Sure,” she said, complying. “I’ve never known a professor who kept a ‘spill […]
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