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Ten Resources That Have Helped Me Make Sense of Our Current Culture and How Christians Are Responding to It

May 23, 2022 by Andy Naselli

In summer 2021 I prepared a talk for the young adults in my church on resources that have helped me make sense of our pagan culture. I recently updated that for the Spring 2022 issue of CBMW’s journal Eikon:

Andrew David Naselli. “Ten Resources That Have Helped Me Make Sense of Our Current Culture and How Christians Are Responding to It.” Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology 4.1 (2022): 116–41.

PDF | web version

These are the ten resources I commend and annotate (the first five are by non-Christians):

1. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (New York: Penguin, 2018).

[Read more…] about Ten Resources That Have Helped Me Make Sense of Our Current Culture and How Christians Are Responding to It

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: Carl Trueman, culture, Joe Rigney, Jonathan Leeman, Kevin DeYoung, Neil Shenvi

Gospel Meditations on the Reformation

January 17, 2017 by Andy Naselli

This little book released last month:

Chris Anderson, Joe Tyrpak, Andy Naselli, and Carl Trueman. Gospel Meditations on the Reformation. Madison, OH: Church Works, 2016. [Read more…] about Gospel Meditations on the Reformation

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: Carl Trueman, Chris Anderson, Joe Tyrpak, Martin Luther

Why, Where, and How Do We Draw the Line?

July 6, 2012 by Andy Naselli

The current issue of Tabletalk is on “Drawing the Line: Why Doctrine Matters.”

These two articles are particularly worth reading:

  1. DeYoung, Kevin. “Where and How Do We Draw the Line?” Tabletalk 36:7 (July 2012): 13–14. (Also on Kevin’s blog.)
  2. Trueman, Carl R. “Why Do We Draw the Line?” Tabletalk 36:7 (July 2012): 21–22.

DeYoung suggests and explains “seven steps we ought to pursue in establishing doctrinal boundaries”: [Read more…] about Why, Where, and How Do We Draw the Line?

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: Carl Trueman, Kevin DeYoung

A New Collection of Carl Trueman Essays

March 12, 2012 by Andy Naselli

This book has a clever cover and title:

Carl R. Trueman. Fools Rush in Where Monkeys Fear to Tread: Taking Aim at Everyone. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2011. 241 pp.

Kevin DeYoung’s endorsement says it well: [Read more…] about A New Collection of Carl Trueman Essays

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: Carl Trueman

Perspectives on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism

November 2, 2011 by Andy Naselli

The annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society is scheduled to take place in San Francisco later this month. The program is available as a PDF.

There are four prioritized reasons to attend this annual meeting:

  1. Network.
  2. Buy books.
  3. Meet re projects.
  4. Attend sessions.

This session may interest you:

Perspectives on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism

Thursday, November 17, 2011 | 3:00-6:10 pm | Parc 55 – Divisadero

Moderator/Introduction: Andy Naselli (The Gospel Coalition)

Presenters:

  1. R. Albert Mohler Jr. (The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary): A Conservative Evangelical View on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism
  2. Kevin T. Bauder (Central Seminary): A Fundamentalist View on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism
  3. Carl Trueman (Westminster Theological Seminary): Response to Albert Mohler and Kevin Bauder

Panel Discussion

The discussion will be related to the book Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism.

Filed Under: Historical Theology Tagged With: Al Mohler, Carl Trueman, Conferences, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Kevin Bauder

Confront and Engage

October 21, 2011 by Andy Naselli

Carl R. Trueman, Reformation: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow  (2nd ed.; Fearn, Scotland: Focus, 2011), 8–9:

[W]ere I to write the book today, it would be different in certain respects. . . . I would want to modify, or at least off-set, my promotion of biblical theological teaching and preaching by emphasizing the need for the preacher to confront and engage his hearers. ‘Hey, I bet you never saw Jesus in this text before,’ is not an adequate application of the Bible; and yet too many so-called redemptive historical preachers and teachers in the Vos (or perhaps, to be charitable and not to impute the sins of the followers to the founder) pseudo-Vos tradition, consider their job to be done when they produced a nice, neat, dry-as-dust lecture on a passage which does just that and no more.

Filed Under: Practical Theology Tagged With: Carl Trueman, preaching

The Barber Who Wanted to Pray

September 23, 2011 by Andy Naselli

Our three-year-old daughter enjoyed this new book after it arrived in the mail yesterday:

R. C. Sproul. The Barber Who Wanted to Pray. Paintings by T. Lively Fluharty. Wheaton: Crossway, 2011. 33 pp.

It’s about Martin Luther teaching his barber, Master Peter, a simple way to pray.

You can read the whole book online here (“Preview the Book”).

Related: See Carl Trueman, “A Lesson from Peter the Barber,” Themelios 34 (2009): 3–5. Trueman’s article ends with this footnote (numbering added):

Martin Luther’s treatise on prayer can be found in the following works:

  1. Martin Luther, “To Peter Beskendorf,” in Luther: Letters of Spiritual Council (ed. and trans. Theodore G. Tappert; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1955), 124–30;
  2. idem, “A Simple Way to Pray,” in Luther’s Works (ed. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Hilton C. Oswald, and Helmut T. Lehmann; trans. Carl J. Schindler; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1968), 43:187–209;
  3. idem, “Luther the Confessional Theologian: A Practical Way to Pray (1535),” in Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings (ed. William R. Russell and Timothy F. Lull; 2nd ed.; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005), 12–17.

Filed Under: Historical Theology Tagged With: Carl Trueman, children's literature, Martin Luther, prayer, R. C. Sproul

The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

January 20, 2011 by Andy Naselli

“The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.”

That’s the opening line to Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).

Carl Trueman plays on that title in his latest book: The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Chicago: Moody, 2011). (This 41-page book is available only electronically in the Kindle format.)

Some excerpts:

Is there an evangelical mind active today? Nearly two decades ago Mark Noll concluded any evangelical mind had gone soft through lack of use. Today the question is whether a healthy evangelicalism exists to host such a mind. I am not sure, theologically, that such a thing still thrives. (p. 13) [Read more…] about The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

Filed Under: Historical Theology Tagged With: Carl Trueman, evangelicalism

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