I found one Catholic blog on the runaway bestseller, Fifty Shades of Grey, that hit the nail on the head. “I’ve received several questions via email about a new erotic trilogy called Fifty Shades of Grey, a story about a young college woman (and a virgin) who enters into a contract with a businessman whereby [...]
First off, the absolute horror to be pinned solely on a lone, deranged nut job, whose name I won’t even mention, and who deserves swift biblical justice according to the Law of God, cannot be “blamed” on
Paul Gates sent me a wonderful book by Andreas J. Kostenberger (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) and Michael J. Kruger (Reformed Theological Seminary, NC) entitled, The Heresy of Orthodoxy:How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity (Apollos, 2010). The Forward is by I. Howard Marshall. D.A. Carson, D. Wallace, Bock, C. Hill [...]
I took the boy last night to the opening of The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross (Pleasantville, BIG, Seabiscuit) and based on the novel by Suzanne Collins. The theatre was packed with fathers and teenagers. It was a scene. I went into the movie with very little information. My sons, a twin Siskel and [...]
John Noe has created one of the largest marketing campaigns for a Full Preterist (FP) that I have seen to date. His last book, Hell Yes? Hell No!, published by his own arm, East2West Press, equally garnered some press. No, it won’t be on the NY Times Bestsellers list, but maybe on the FP one, [...]
Back in my hyperpreterist days, a friend gifted me with G.K. Beale’s book The Temple and the Church’s Mission. I thought it was a great read. Strangely however, the overarching purpose of creation that is explained in the book never settled in my mind. As i did with so many orthodox writings back then, i read, [...]
Mike Bull has recently sent me his new book, The Bible Matrix II: The Covenant Key (Westbow Press, 2011). Like his Bible Matrix, this one is full of “patterns”. Did you ever think that Esther, probably one of the most neglected books in the Bible, was covenantal in structure and outline? That it speaks directly [...]
I have finished re-reading Frank Viola’s book, Pagan Christianity, and I must say, “whew…glad that mindless waste of time is over!” Viola’s sources for his “anti-church” view are mostly liberals. Take Will Durant, for example. Durant was an adamant anti-Christian, and agnostic. Yet, this is one of Viola’s sources. What is NOT quoted in the [...]
I am a huge fan of the Apes movies. As a kid growing up in the seventies, I got to see two of them in the theaters. Of course, the first one was 1968 and the huge hit, The Planet of the Apes with Chuck Heston and Rod McDowell. Classic. One of my favorites. Tim [...]
Douglas F. Kelly, Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary (North Carolina), has written a masterful defense of a literal interpretation of Genesis (titled in the heading, Mentor Press, 2002). I rank it up there with James B. Jordan’s work on the six days of creation. The main thrust of the book is that, [...]
Mike Bull recently sent me a copy of his book, Bible Matrix: An Introduction to the DNA of Scriptures, 2010, Westbow Press. Peter Leithart, who I began reading when studying the book of Samuel, writes the introduction. Leithart, as many of you may know, is a close student of the works of James B. Jordan, [...]
Ironically, a book that emphasizes context and attempts to localize what has been often understood as global, now rips these verses from their immediate context and attempts to globalize, so to speak, what is in actuality limited.
A Book Review of Gordon H. Clark’s Logic (The Trinity Foundation, 1998) 140 pages. In the “Introduction” to this book, John Robbins asks the most pertinent question, “Why Study Logic?” Logic, which is defined as “the science of necessary inference,” is often belittled as unnecessary. After all, we are told, “life is deeper than [...]
This book, published originally in 1973, offers again the scope of Clark’s epistemological theory against rationalism, empiricism, and irrationalism. Dogmatism is Clark’s theory. By the use of reduction, Clark asserts that dogmatic principles are the hallmark of every system, rational or empirical. “Thus a presuppositionaless description is impossible” for anyone who attempts to build a [...]
“Without faith it is impossible to please God” the writer of Hebrews tells us. So, there should not be any real difficulty with explaining what faith is. Faith, as a word, occurs hundreds of times in the Scripture. Gordon Clark, however, dispels any notion in his book, Faith and Saving Faith, that faith is easy [...]