Archive for the ‘Sundries’ Category

February 14, 2010 0

Sunday Sundries

By Robert Minto in Sundries

Three excellent posts from Memoria Dei (which is shaping up to be a really excellent theo-blog): Ways to be theologically Heideggerian, Reading the Medievals as Philosophers, Teaching Anselm’s Proslogion.
Halden asks, is it significant that Paul calls the church the bride and not the wife of Christ?
Thomas Bridges offers an hilarious Schleiermacherian version of Amazing Grace.
Finally, [...]

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January 31, 2010 3

Sunday Sundries

By Robert Minto in Sundries

Over at the wonderful Faith and Theology blog, Kim Fabricius considers Obama and the Poverty of Niebuhrian Ethics, and then Glen Stassen re-consider’s Obama’s Nobel Speech Prize, with special reference to the under-discussed notion of just peace.
John Hobbins has an excellent post about Myth in the Bible.
Simon Ravenscroft points out that when it comes to [...]

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January 24, 2010 0

Sunday Sundries

By Robert Minto in Sundries

First, don’t miss our own Joel Veldkamp’s reflections on The Book of Eli.
For those completely unexposed to it, might be good to consider another perspective on Haiti, and a follow-up.
Should we preserve the dichotomy, history vs. myth?
An amusing map.
Garry Kasparov (that’s right, that Kasparov) on the fascinating subject of Chess Masters and the Computer.

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January 10, 2010 0

Sunday Sundries

By Robert Minto in Sundries

Bible cross-references artistically visualized.
Speaking of visualization, an interesting memorial to the illustrating work of David Levine in the New York Review of Books.
Slavoj Zizek on the task of thinkers today (being to highlight the unfinished nature of the universe).
Two pre-eminent Old Testament Theologies compared (Brueggemann and Goldingay).
Bob Thompson’s memoir of his days on the book-beat [...]

December 13, 2009 0

Sunday Sundries

By Robert Minto in Sundries

Ben Myers contemplates reggae as ethics while reviewing a book about Rastafari theology.
Millinerd shares C.S. Lewis’s advice on rhetorical simplicity.
K-punk contributes (in the second half of this post) interesting thoughts on the recently buzzing idea of a proletarian university.
Ian Bogost attempts to define as simply as possible for us (newcomers and/or laymen) what Object-Oriented Ontology [...]

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December 6, 2009 0

Sunday Sundries

By Robert Minto in Sundries

Ever worried what information will be revealed when someone googles your name? Orin Kerr has a solution.
Should Christians ever enjoy killing?
Jeremy Denk offers a delicious walk through Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantasie.
The ever-thoughtful Joel Veldkamp ruminates on recent theories about what Republicans really stand for, and whether he can remain one.

“I might have to come up with a [...]

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November 8, 2009 0

Sunday Sundries (Nov. 8, 2009)

By Robert Minto in Sundries

Why “We” do not have troops.
Neither Wellhausen nor Kugel.
A beautiful tribute to my summer camping ground! (Aesthetic, locale oriented conservatism I can stand.)
Mammonian Circular Logic.
An excellent response to the “Heidegger smash-up.”

It can be frustrating to be young and not yet in a position to make much of a contribution to the debate. But at least [...]

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September 6, 2009 0

Sunday Sundries

By Robert Minto in Sundries

James Smith speculates that the role of the Christian university should be to produce doubt.
The Ten Points of Evangelical Calvinism / the Rest of Bobby Grow’s new blog, as well.
Halden speculates about what freaking out tells us about Conservatism.
The results of the Worst Preacher Ever 2009 are in…
Why books are better.

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August 9, 2009 0

Sunday Sundries

By Robert Minto in Blogging, Books, Periodicals, Sundries

Why “I need to spend more time with God” can be a lame diversion.
The introduction to a book which, after downloading and reading, you will need to read entire. Spoiler: the mall as the most religiously significant location in our towns.
Why we fear fundamentalism.
A remarkable collection of Christian journals from major universities.
Another of John Hobbins’s [...]

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