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Posted in Book Previews, Books, Education on May 14th, 2013
In an information saturated world, questions about intellectual integrity are paramount. Gathering information is no longer a problem, but trust is. Substantive questions cannot even be asked much less answered if there is no trust. To whom should I trust my mind? Who can I trust as an intellectual mentor? And after much toil when [...]
Posted in Biblical Studies, Book Previews, Books, Hermeneutics on May 23rd, 2012
The very term “hermeneutics” is rather intimidating to many people. What does it mean? Well, sometimes its easier to understand something by witnessing it in action–in real life–than it is to grasp it as an abstract concept. Thanks to IVP Academic you can now do just that with Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views. Usually I keep [...]
Posted in Friday Updates on Feb 10th, 2012
Good afternoon, and welcome to the world of Christian Academics at CBD. This is the Friday update. 1. IVP Academic adds Jerome’s commentary on Jeremiah IVP has produced multiple “ancient text” series in recent years, but there “Ancient Christian Texts” series focuses on supplying complete texts in fresh translation. The latest volume is a very welcome addition [...]
Posted in Friday Updates on Feb 3rd, 2012
Good morning, and welcome to the world of Christian Academics at CBD. This is the Friday update. 1. ISBE Returns CBD is known for amazing deals on sets. In recent years we have offered deals on sets like Barth’s Church Dogmatics, and Kittle’s Theological Dictionary of the New Testament [TDNT]. A couple years ago, CBD was able to [...]
Posted in Books of the Year on Dec 30th, 2011
‘Tis the season for list making and while I typically create a “books of the year” list, this year I also have a “book of the year”. I do this only to highlight the exceptional quality of the book I have chosen for 2011 Book of the Year. All of my selections were so chosen [...]
Posted in 1 Corinthians, Biblical Studies, New Testament on Sep 29th, 2011
Kenneth E. Bailey is one of most creative, popular–and yet scholarly–authors around. Specializing in understanding the ancient world ‘through the eyes’ of poor and/or common people, his two most recent books with IVP Academic Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels and (just released) Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians epitomize his work. Both help us [...]
Posted in Book Previews, Books, Philosophy on Mar 29th, 2011
Most Christians are quite familiar with evidentialist apologetics. “Apologetics”, as the evidentialist type of apologetics is commonly taken to refer to, is extremely appealing to and actively practiced by the vast majority of lay Christians. It is the type of apologetics presented in about 95% of all books published in the genre (McDowell, Strobel, etc., [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 12th, 2010
ne of the reasons I make an intentional and committed effort to studying history is so that I might see the world, not only beyond myself, but through the eyes of another. I suspect this is the very reason I make a practice of reading biographies, memoirs, and auto-biographies every year during the Christmas break. [...]
Posted in Ethics, Historical Theology, History, Politics/Political Theory, Theology on Nov 8th, 2010
n a certain sense we might say that the amount of courage Peter Leithart demonstrated in writing a book defending the Roman emperor Constantine, is equal to the amount of courage required of Constantine to declare himself a Christian, for whatever reason he may have done it. We might also suggest that to write a [...]
Posted in Historical Theology, Philosophy, Systematic Theology, Theology on Sep 8th, 2010
James F. Sennett and Douglas Groothuis. In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005). Reviewed by: Sarah Schoonmaker, M.Div. Current MA philosophy student at California State University—Long Beach. In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment, edited by James F. Sennett and Douglas Groothuis offers a collection of arguments [...]