Association Membership Step-by-Step
Sorry for the extended break. I had meant to take a little bit of a break through a particularly busy time, but it ended up being a little longer than I had anticipated. One of my projects during this break, however, is to continue to work on a book idea that I have had for [...]
Common Sense Philosophy, American Democracy, and Total Depravity
I am still reading through Mark Noll’s book America’s God, and my wife was kind enough to buy my own copy for my birthday! (I had been reading a library copy and dropping lots of hints–”I am loving this book! It’s one of the best books that I have read in a long time!” etc…) [...]
Jonathan Edwards, Covenant Theology, and American Politics
I have been deeply enjoying Mark Noll’s America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. (Thanks for the recommendation, Andrew!) The main thrust of the book is that American (Protestant) Christian theology developed uniquely from other theology because of a strong influence of strong philosophical and political influences such as common sense moral reasoning and [...]
Democracy and Book Reviews
I love books, and have recently begun to enjoy a steady diet of book reviews with my Christmas present for this year–a subscription to Books & Culture. So, when I came across a book about book reviews, I had to take the time to read it. Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America, [...]
Book Review: The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom’s modern classic, The Closing of the American Mind, opens with an observation of a trend that was all-too-common in the 1980s, but which has only solidified by 2010—namely, that students “are unified only in their relativism and in their allegiance to equality” (25). Bloom’s concern goes beyond the obvious logical problems in relativism [...]