REVIEW
Mercy For All: Paul, Judaism, and the Salvation of “All Israel.”
Anderson, Robert. Mercy for All: Paul, Judaism, and the Salvation of “All Israel.” Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023. A key part of modern replacement theology is Paul’s focus on individual salvation in Romans 9–11. This view sees several changes in Paul’s argument. It has side notes. It uses God’s predestination of nations to explain individual…
Read MoreReview of Plastic Words: The Tyranny of A Modular Language
Poerksen, Uwe. Plastic Words: The Tyranny of a Modular Language. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1995. Abstraction, particularly in the computer age, is one of the most important skills anyone can develop. Separating the principle from the thing, seeing alternative uses for the thing based on the underlying principle, understanding unintended consequences, and…
Read MoreQuick Review: Computer Power and Human Reason
Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer Power and Human Reason. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976. Joseph Weizenbaum, the inventor and developer of ELIZA, tells us his purpose in writing this book is: There are then, two questions that must ultimately be confronted. First, are the conceptual bases that underlie linguistic understanding entirely formalizable, even in principle, as…
Read MoreAmerica’s Theologian Beyond America
There is some idea among Christians that groups of theologians from the past, such as the Church Fathers or Reformers, all shared a common theological framework and view. Anyone reading beyond just a few Church Fathers knows this is not true. Theologians and pastors through the third and fourth centuries had very few theological positions…
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