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My brother closes off some overly kind words with this: If we judge the book by its handsome cover, the potential audience for Earthen Vessels is composed of evangelical Christians, theologians, philosophers, various other assorted intellectual types, and, quite possibly, highly […]
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One of the theological areas most likely to raise questions about the relationship between historical Christian teaching and Greek (especially Platonic) thought is that of human nature. Especially with regard
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Three American flags draped the coffins lying on the cargo floor of my C-17. It was only three hours earlier that I had received a phone call informing me
Jake MeadorembodimentAnthropology
One of my old professors was fond of saying that in his class we take the first several weeks to chuck a whole bunch of balls in the air and we then spend the rest of the semester learning to […]
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And is awfully kind. "Again, and on another point raised by the critics, the relation of soul and body in Descartes is often badly misunderstood. There is indeed a
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My last plea for help on this book was so successful, and shaped so much of my thinking about the direction my book is going in, that I thought I&
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One of the most interesting side-projects I've been working on during my research has been trying to find evangelicals who address the body specifically. That it has
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Boing Boing has a helpful write-up of what, and how, infants in the womb know about the world. Here are two of the highlights: "They can tell the
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Lisa Miller has a new book out on heaven, and while I haven't read it yet, the excerpt at Newsweek is intriguing. Miller highlights the paradox of believing
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Writing a book is a community project. It's been almost 10 weeks since I announced that I had signed the contract. During that time I've read
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February 17th is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent. Around this time last year I wrote a reflection on fasting as it is portrayed in Isaiah, wondering at the nature of a true fast. I think it’s sort […]
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Son of God. Prince of Peace. Son of Man. Cagefighter? While the first three masculine titles given to our Lord Jesus are biblical and sufficient enough to express the wonder of Jesus, the last title seems to be ever-more increasingly […]