I got home today and discovered Joe Carter clipped my restatement of his post. Thanks for the link, and welcome Evangelical Outpost readers. In the same post, Carter writes: Personally, I have a hard time accepting the idea that libertarianism and Christianity are highly compatible. I think that libertarianism tends to favor the individual over [...]
Archive for May, 2005
May 31, 2005
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Evangelical Hat Tips
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Outside Articles of Interest, Philosophy
May 30, 2005
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Back to Work
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Epistemology, PhilosophyAfter a full weekend of cleaning, moving, and unpacking, I am officially moved in to the new apartment. It doesn’t have internet access right now and won’t for a while, so blogging will be tough, but I always seem to manage. Only 26 long days, though, until I will be gone for 2 weeks getting [...]
May 25, 2005
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More “hot ice and wondrous strange snow”
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Epistemology, TheologyFrom another term paper: “Not only is the Christian God indescribable and magnificent, the description of God is interesting as well” (emphasis mine). That (rather unwittingly, I am afraid to say) sums up the whole problem of Christian theology.
May 25, 2005
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From C.S. Lewis
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Life in general, Literature, QuotationsC.S. Lewis might as well have written this regarding Bombadil. “No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God’s hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves false gods.” From the Weight of Glory, page [...]
May 24, 2005
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Mere O back-up
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsFor some reason, Mere-O has been not working very well. It now seems to be in good order. I am not going to be able to post as much the next few days as Jonathan would like. The reasons: 1) Term papers just came in. I have to get them graded asap so that I [...]
May 23, 2005
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Reply to a Critic
By Matthew Lee Anderson in America, Reviews (Books)Here’s my response to the lengthy reply by Georgiana Preskar. I’ll extend the final word to her, even though it’s our blog. In other words, after this I’m done and she can reply if she wishes. Ms. Preskar writes: Thank you for your great review of my comments about your review of Seeds of Deception:Planting [...]
May 22, 2005
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A Final Bombadil Reply
By Matthew Lee Anderson in LiteratureAfter the last Bombadil post, Burglar made this comment: I hadn’t thought of this before. Perhaps this is an avenue for further reflection. Denethor and other characters (foolishly) favor appeasement and counsel against war, but perhaps Bombadil represents a truly genuine pacifist position. Is Bombadil Switzerland? This seems right on a political level, but I [...]
May 21, 2005
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Seeds of Deception Redux
By Matthew Lee Anderson in America, Reviews (Books)Update: Fixed some grammar in my second to last paragraph. I posted this review of Seeds of Deception nearly a month ago. I was as honest as I could be about Preskar’s work. When checking Stacy Harp’s Mind and Media review list, I noticed that Ms. Preskar had replied to my review. Continuing the trend [...]
May 20, 2005
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More on Bombadil
By Matthew Lee Anderson in LiteratureJesse Thorgersen and I have dialogued some be on the role of Bombadil in Tolkien’s LOTR. His latest is worth everyone seeing. His text is in italics–mine will be “normal.” This is an interesting discussion, thanks for hosting it and dragging me over! Here’s what I agree with: “If Bomabdil is tied to Middle Earth, [...]
May 19, 2005
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Responses to Bombadil
By Matthew Lee Anderson in LiteratureMany thanks for the links and the feedback on the Bombadil piece. I realized when I was writing it that it’s a tendentious position, and that most would disagree with the interpretation. As I mentioned, I submitted it here and to the Torrey newsletter, but I’m happy if they don’t publish it as I’m not [...]
May 17, 2005
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An Encouraging Word
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsFaithful reader Jonathan had these kind words to say: Wow, Matt. MO has been careening downhill of late. May your daily visits plummet accordingly. No one has goaded Mere-O (I refuse to let it degenerate into MO) into blogging more than Jonathan. We love and hate him for it, too.
May 17, 2005
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On Why we Like Tom Bombadil and Probably Shouldn’t
By Matthew Lee Anderson in LiteratureI’m going to enter unfamiliar territory for Mere-O: Lord of the Rings. I am no expert in the matter–in fact, I have just finished only my second read through. Yet below is an article that I have written for the Torrey Honors Institute Symposium, the newsletter they send out. There’s no guarantee they’ll publish it–right [...]
May 13, 2005
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GodBlogCon-ing
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsI’ve added to our growing sidebar a link for the upcoming GodBlogCon. I hope that many of you will be able to make it. It should be a fun time.