1 day ago by Joel Jacobsen

I've had to steel myself to write this post. It involves more self-revelation than, frankly, I'm altogether comfortable with. But I must see it through, if you, my reader, are to fully understand what follows. ... You see, I'm the sort of person who sometimes borrows Teaching Company and Modern Scho ...

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2 days ago by kvond

Living Beyond Your Means, On Credit I don’t have time to summarize in depth, but some may be interested in this discussion over at the Latourian blog We Have Never Been Blogging: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop. In our back and forth I quote from Bourdieu, from his Homo Academicus, a passage meant to describ ...

Frames /sing - kvond.wordpress.com · Rank: 38,037 · 39 references

9 days ago by Joel Jacobsen

It's hard for any professional to question the conventional wisdom of his or her field. It's hard even to perceive the things one takes for granted. The tendency is easiest to see in fields in which one has no emotional or financial investment, such as medicine. In Seed, Dave Munger writes: " placeb ...

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16 days ago by johnbugay

A.G. Dickens was Professor of History at the University of London; he wrote several works that I have, including “The English Reformation,” The Counter-Reformation,” and “The Reformation in Historical Thought.” I’m pretty fascinated by all of these, and hope to quote from them in the coming weeks an ...

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23 days ago by Bruce Byfield

I appreciate Northwest Coast art for many reasons. It is semi-abstract, which always captures my imagination. It has a historical and sociological aspect, so I can combine intellectual and aesthetic interests. It is the art of my home, although not of my culture. But, sometimes, I think that my main ...

Off the Wall - brucebyfield.wordpress.com · 53 references

30 days ago by lifeproof

There are countries and their conscientious cultures, which define the country’s worldview. Like Russia, Jamaica, Norway—and of course Germany. October 23 rd BBC News reported that “a group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.” T ...

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37 days ago by Mark Tuttle

I have been enlarging my territory in philosophy this semester and something I have just learned has made some connections for me. Scholasticism is a technic of training that makes an effort to put philosophy and theology together. It later took on criticism from Humanism that brought a tighter tech ...

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38 days ago by Chris Armstrong

In one sense, all of medieval theology was a series of footnotes on Augustine, who had insisted that knowledge begins with faith and faith provides a foundation for knowledge. During the high and late medieval periods, Augustine’s impulse blossomed, through thinkers such as Anselm of Canterbury and ...

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38 days ago by Wes Hopper

It’s not often that human society goes through a radical change in world view. In fact, that last time it happened was about 400 years ago. Then, as now, most people were completely oblivious to the transformation while it was happening but within just a few generations people were looking at the wo ...

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39 days ago by Wes Bredenhof

Rev. Jim Witteveen has some helpful reflections on the developments at Reformed Academic over the last week or so. I would add that I find it curious that some seem to think our tradition begins with Calvin and then skips over to Bavinck, as if nothing good happened in Reformed theology during the i ...

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