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Category: Philosophy and theology
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Bible and culture 3: Universal Truth, Specific Cultures, and the Incarnation
In this third post in the Bible and culture series I continue to take an eschatologically realist approach to Revelation 7. Specifically, I bring the remarkable claims of Christ’s incarnation alongside Revelation 7 in order to show that biblcial truth is not a-cultural, monocultural or even multicultural, but transcultural. We moderns tend to think of
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Bible and culture 2: The Revelation 7 Paradigm
In this second post in the series on the Bible and culture I continue to prepare the ground for a series of reflections about bringing Bible and culture into conversation. Having sketched out the importance of eschatological realism, I now want to explore how the depiction of the new heavens and new earth in the
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Bible and culture 1: Eschatological realism and “the way things are” for the Bible.
This is the first in a new series of posts exploring how to understand both the Bible and contemporary culture in a way that help us bring them into meaningful and rigorous conversation. This first post addresses what it means to talk about “the way things are” from a biblical perspective. For the Christian,
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The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge (Introduction and Preface)
Dallas Willard was one of the most intriguing Christian philosophers of the last several decades. He was a first-rate philosopher who did his initial academic work on the thought of Edmund Husserl, and his first major academic work was Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge: A Study in Husserl’s Philosophy (1984). He would go on
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Bradley Green: Henri Bergson and the Creation of the Self
One of the things I have been doing on my research leave is read (surprise), and specifically to read in the area of philosophy. Currently I am reading Gary Gutting, French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. Besides just interesting, I hope to write one day a biblical theology of knowledge. That interest has led to reading this
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What does Derrida mean by ‘There is nothing outside the text?’ video
In July 2019 I had the pleasure of joining Prof. James Anderson of Reformed Theological Seminary for a wide-ranging conversation about philosophy, theology and the P&R Publishing Great Thinkers book series, in which James has a volume on David Hume and I have books on Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. In this excerpt I pick
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7 ways Christians have read postmodern thinkers video
In July 2019 I had the pleasure of joining Prof. James Anderson of Reformed Theological Seminary for a wide-ranging conversation about philosophy, theology and the P&R Publishing Great Thinkers book series, in which James has a volume on David Hume and I have books on Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. In this excerpt I discuss
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Seminar. Storyboarding your Discipline: A Tool for Christian Students and Academics
In this seminar I want to explore one way that Christian academics can understand the secular disciplines in which we work. I will begin by discussing two different ways in which we can understand the Christian faith and the way it shapes our work, before moving on to discuss a tool to help us think
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Book excerpt from Thinking Through Creation: Absolute personality theism
Absolute personality theism The God of the Bible is not the only God of the ancient or modern worlds who is personal. The Greeks and the Romans had as many personal gods as you could shake a stick at (and, as Paul discovered in Athens in Acts 17, even more that you couldn’t!) What is
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Summary and reviews of the book “Great Thinkers: Jacques Derrida”
Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Press, 2017 Summary One of the most important thinkers of our time, Jacques Derrida continues to have a profound influence on postmodern thought and society. Christopher Watkin explains Derrida’s complex philosophy with clarity and precision, showing not only what Derrida says about metaphysics, ethics, politics, and theology but also what