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Why Pilgrim’s Progress is Better Than The Sequel: Part The Third
This is an outline of why Pilgrim’s Progress is better than the sequel. The sequel even features a bodyguard who as Pastor Bennett stated, is the allegorical equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger (or at least an 80’s action hero) who is … Continue reading
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Tagged Batman, books, christianity, history, john-bunyan, pilgrim's progress, psychology, stoicism, theology
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Why Pilgrim’s Progress is Better Than The Sequel: Part The First
A recent medal of honor recipient who had his face blown off by jumping on a grenade before going on to have his face reconstructed, accidentally parachuting into Arlington cemetery, and running a marathon, said that the common core of … Continue reading
Projecting Feeling as Thought
Jeremiads teach us the impermanence and misguiding of emotions through a false filter as shown by Amusing Ourselves to Death and the Screwtape Letters. My father valued Spiritual emotions as one of the greatest and most important books he ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Batman, C. S. Lewis, psychology, robert c roberts, Screwtape Letters, stoicism, theology
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Theological Inner Ring Ghetto Club
C. S. Lewis says that we listen to some men because they seemed to have been closer to God than we are. In this case, Lewis indicates that the primary danger in reading the Bible is not an overindulgence in … Continue reading
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Assorted thoughts on Cynicism: Being The Sixth Part of A Critique of Philip Graham Ryken’s Written in Stone
The first five parts of this critique can be found here, here, here, here, and here. Ryken’s analysis of gossip sounds reasonable enough. His lack of Scripture to support his argument is odd. One emphasis of Calvinism is cynicism toward the idea that … Continue reading
The Presbyterian Temperament and Francis Schaeffer’s Search for Absolute Truth
While stating that Presbyterians have a tendency toward a melancholic temperament may be seen as an exaggeration, Mark Twain connected the two as inseparable in Tom Sawyer.[1] J. I. Packer stated that a melancholic character is a mind that functions … Continue reading
The Dark Side of Authority: Being the Fourth Part of a Critique of Philip Graham Ryken’s Written in Stone
The first three parts of this critique can be found here, here, and here. This is the fourth essay in a series critiquing Philip Graham Ryken’s Book Written in Stone. The first three parts can be found here, here, and here. Ryken’s analysis … Continue reading
The Abolition of Superman According to Jordan Peterson Applied Part 2: Leaping into Faith and the Nature of Hope: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schaeffer, and Man of Steel
Existentialism Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, Francis Schaeffer, and Jordan Peterson use and define the concepts of nihilism and existentialism differently. Nietzsche and Kierkegaard’s writing are confusing and have wildly differing interpretations. As a result, this is essay will mirror that … Continue reading
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Tagged dostoyevsky, Francis Schaeffer, Jordan Peterson, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, philosophy, psychology, theology
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On Cognitive Dissonance and Sanctification
A psychology textbook defines Cognitive dissonance as “an uncomfortable clash between self-image, thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, or perceptions and one’s behavior.” If one state of affairs is believed to exist, but new information contradicts the earlier view of that state of … Continue reading
On the Symbiotic Nature of Joy and Despair, or the Shadow of Ecclesiastes in Pilgrim’s and Sam’s Progress
Emotion is morally indifferent before application to an object. Much joy is vanity. Some joy is evil. There is no hope without despair. Hope and despair, or at least hope and fear, have a symbiotic relationship. There is no hope … Continue reading
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Tagged lord of the rings, pilgrim's progress, psychology, robert c roberts, stoicism
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