Ben and Samantha
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Location: Louisville, KY USA
Birthday: July 18(Saved Remind mePlease RetryPlease Retry)
Anniversary: July 16
In My Own Words:
I'm a struggling seminary student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. I love to read, discuss, and play sports.
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154 of 156 people found the following review helpful:
How shall Christ and Culture interact? The question is universal. From Christians hiding in China, to the power and majesty of Catholicism, to the Moral Majority in America, to the reclusive Amish communities in Pennsylvania, the Church has struggled with the correct understanding of how faith applies to local context. For years, various groups have fit themselves into one of H. Richard Niebuhr's five categories;
Christ against Culture,
Christ of Culture,
Christ above Culture,
Christ and Culture in Paradox, and
Christ the Transformer of Culture.
D.A. Carson's, "Christ and Culture Revisited," critiques Niebuhr, and offers a more… Read more
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
This book asks powerful and important questions. When it is time for you to die, how will you view your life? What will you value about who you were? What is important to do and to finish before you go?
The story presented a powerful impact on me because it had both a strong synthesis and contrast to my my mom, who died of cancer when I was 23. The synthesis is found in the questions; she had to face who she had been all her life, how she had spent herself, what things she had pursued, and how she should prepare for death.
Unlike our friend Ivan, though, she was able to answer those questions quite well. She had lived a life that was meaningful in its… Read more
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
This book is unusual in that it is both extremely solid and fairly unique. Often in theological circles, a person will appreciate a certain book, only to have someone else say, "Oh, there's a much better book on the same topic."
This one isn't likely to have that problem for a while. For too long, theologians have dodged the problem of knowing how much we can use OT references in the NT to guide not only our understanding of the passage, but also our hermeneutical approach to the various types of OT references.
For instance, how will you know if a phrase is an OT reference, an early church hymn, or the author's own voice? Does the author have solid… Read more
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Total Helpful Votes: 7 of 9
These are just theological books that I've found to be especially helpful in clarifying my understanding of Scripture and of the God Scripture points to. They are books that I trust. More will be added when I get the chance to read some more of the classics!
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