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Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

GodBlogCon Day 1

Welcome to GodBlogCon! I am going to be "live"-blogging as much of the conference as possible (I typed this earlier and then got in a heated conversation

Matthew Lee Anderson

Wise Advice from James Kushiner

James Kushiner of Mere Comments, a man who hasn’t done much in the way of wrong on his blog, said the worst thing that he has done is not include enough qualifiers in his posts. Not bad advice, but hard […]

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

"What's the Mind Got to Do with It?": Love, Reason, and Emotion in Jonathan Edwards

Holy affections are not heat without light; but evermore arise from some information of the understanding, or some spiritual instruction that the mind receives, some light or actual knowledge. From

Keith E. BuhlerTheology and Practice

a response to Andrew's post on "divine light"

"Jonathan Edwards argues in his sermon A Divine and Supernatural Light that God will, from time to time, provide a child of His with a flash of insight and

Keith E. Buhler

Flirting with Christianity

Faith, it drives me away But it turns me on Like a strangers love -Muse With regard to a Jewish agnostic friend of ours, Matt Anderson once remarked that he is “flirting with Christianity.” This friend of ours is a […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

An Excercise in Futility: World Series Picks

I am now intrigued by the possibility of picking every series wrong except for one (Cardinals in round one). My picks for the Division series champions: Mets and A’s. Reality: Cardinals and Tigers. I should pick the Cardinals for Gary’s […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

Those Crazy Thinkers in the Past Thought We Should Teach Our Children How to Use Language

John Mark Reynolds, keynote speaker at GodBlogCon, brings to our attention a study that shows the profound lack of literacy American high school graduates possess. Apparently 50% of students who

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

Looking for a Great Latin Curriculum?

I'm almost through the first book of Hans Orberg's groundbreaking Latin curriculum, Lingua Latina. The program consists of two primary text books, two supplementary (but essential!

Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology

The Divine Light: Augustine's De Magistro and Edwards's A Divine and Supernatural Light

In the last couple of days I have read Augustine’s De Magistro or The Teacher, which concerns the nature of true learning. To give a clumsy paraphrase of the subtle dialogue with his son, Adeodatus, he argues that learning (all […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Shenandoah: A Film You are not Likely to See These Days

Recently, I watched the 1965 Civil War film Shenandoah starring the lovable Jimmy Stewart. The film deals with the question of what it means to be an American, as seen through the lives of the Anderson family, of which Stewart’s […]

TexTheology and Practice

The Lamp of the Body

One unfortunate result of the West's Christian heritage is that those passages of Scripture that the entire culture can claim as part of its intellectual and moral heritage,

Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized

Washington Post on "Facing the Giants"

More buzz from the big shots on this suprising small-budget success... Check it out here ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901131.html )