Hard-hitting action notwithstanding, Red Rising is ultimately a consideration of honor, morality, hierarchy, equality, and violence
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Hard-hitting action notwithstanding, Red Rising is ultimately a consideration of honor, morality, hierarchy, equality, and violence
Every Christian will appreciate the thoroughness of His gospel presentation — Christ is God's good word of reconciliation for the world.
There are confessions. There are aired disagreements. Finally, there are direct calls to future dialogue and real life interaction.
Jordan Cooper's The Great Divide is an important book for young theologians moving forward.
In the spirit of "shut up and listen," I present the best books that are full of things I do not affirm.
If judged by Hunsinger's goal that "it will succeed only if it whets reader's appetite to read Barth" (xx), then Thy Word is Truth is an outstanding success.
Perhaps C.S. Lewis meant for The Republic to stand as a prequel to the Space Trilogy!
Lewis teaches us that the best way to defend children from believing in falsehoods is NOT by telling them that fairytales aren’t real. Rather, by inculcating the just sentiments that fairytales offer, children WILL be able to better defend themselves from falsehoods of the worst variety.
Take this “Language of Malacandra Quiz” and come back at the end of the week for the answers.
Blomberg’s Contagious Holiness is the technical background that many pastors and elders need to encourage their local churches to food-oriented ministries. However, Blomberg is technical and dry
The beauty of Barth’s theology is obvious. Direct application to the church and the believer dominate Barth’s lectures.
We are characters in a story, we are not the author. We are placed in the plot and given roles. We enter stage right or stage left and are called upon to recite our lines and act.
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The main distinction Lewis makes between the literary and unliterary person can be seen in their approach to literature.
Unfortunately, it is this type of pragmatic unliterariness that so pervades many Christians’
No doubt there are many morals and messages held in the great works of literature. However, to approach a work of literature with the sole intention of mining these things is to approach literature as an unliterary person. In the case of the literary person, they approach a great work with the main intention to sit under the author’s tutelage. In this
A recovery of beauty in the realm of aesthetics in the church is not going to be an easy task. It is going to take a long time and the odds are unlikely that our generation will taste the fruit of faithfulness. But what greater example of selfless love is there than laying down our own aesthetic preferences so that our great grandchildren can reap the fruit of a robustly beautiful church.
“We do not want to artificially endorse rigid gender stereotypes that make cultural normative expression of gender roles a marker of obedience to God or something along those lines.” (150-151)