Last night, I saw the Hughes Brothers’ new movie The Book of Eli. It’s been getting mixed reviews, and I honestly did not expect to like it very much.
I loved it. And now I desperately want to talk to people about it.
The problem is that the movie’s best kept secret (at least I didn’t know [...]
Tags: Abram, End of history, genesis, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, science fiction, The Book of Eli
This is Armageddon Week on the History Channel. That means that they put out lots of programs describing possible scenarios for the end of the world and theories about preventing that great catastrophe. Man’s great technologies and innovations for diverting earthbound rocks are the focus of much of the programming, along with bioterrors and nuclear [...]
Tags: armageddon, asteroid strikes, bias, conditional statements, dispensationalism, history channel, narration, narrative form, narratives, natural disasters, nuclear holocaust, plausibility, religious ideas, religious perspective, religious theories, scientific concerns
This post is part of a series. Read the introduction here. Keep in mind the speculative and exploratory nature of these comments.
“… in the biblical description of creation, the vocation of God becomes definitive of the vocation of human life and of that of institutions and nations and other creatures and of all things whatever.” [...]
Tags: conscience, contexts, creation accounts, doctrine of god, figure of speech, genesis account, legal context, obedience, Obligation, sovereignty, theologians, theological reflection, william stringfellow
I concluded the last essay by suggesting that everyone should take time out to ask themselves why they get up in the morning. Clearly this question only had tangential relevance to my main thesis in that essay, which had to do with Marcus Aurelius’s exemplary clarity in setting up an objective or ideal pattern for [...]
Tags: Death, divine providence, epicureans, marcus aurelius, material universe, meditations, moral agent, moral behavior, moral reasoning, moral vision, self analysis, stoic
A great agony of Christian thinking has been the ambiguity of the question how much importance should we assign to mankind, its destiny, and its works? A thousand small incarnations of this ambiguity have embroiled our thinkers in skirmishes with each other. I’d like to commentate on the possibilities for repentance and hope within this [...]
Tags: abraham kuyper, agape, agon, agonia, ambiguity, Bible, calvinist tradition, Christ, Creation, culture, Dooyeweerd, eschatological, Hope, life, life of the mind, neo-calvinist, Repentance, wrangling
When on Saturday I found myself ensconced between two rows of bawling children to watch the newest Pixar animation, a small moleskin open on my knee for notes, and a delicious tingle of anticipation all out of proportion to my age causing me to shift my weight back and forth, I suddenly wondered if there [...]
Tags: christian critics, communism, Community, eschatological, fredricksen, mainstream films, married life, pixar animation, sensibilities, successful marriage
