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On Alert and On Call: Armed Only with His Mind and His Love

September 15, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Inspired by a response to  The Urban Resident's series on  Christian Personal Statement  and building upon my  conversation  with Mary Poplin regarding  Is Reality Secular? Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews?  (InterVarsity Press, 2014), I asked Mary to share  a personal statement that describes her calling/vocation as a Christian professor in a secular university.  May you find these words an encouragement as you seek the Lord's insight in  articulating, bearing the marks  of, embodying the call to be a … [Read more...] about On Alert and On Call: Armed Only with His Mind and His Love

Filed Under: Academics as Mission, Christ and the Academy, Is Reality Secular Tagged With: Christian Personal Statement, constructivism, Mary Poplin, mind, personal statement, secular, Transformative Conversations

Is Reality Secular? Part 2

December 30, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 2 Comments

What is real? . . . If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain  (43) Material Naturalism With the above quote from The Matrix  (1999), Mary Poplin  introduces Part 2 of Is Reality Secular? What is the nature of reality?  (Post on part 1). Morpheus' words and the exploration of Material Naturalism bring back memories not only of a decade of conversation at Carnegie Mellon University as an InterVarsity Campus … [Read more...] about Is Reality Secular? Part 2

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Is Reality Secular Tagged With: alvin plantinga, Give-away, intervarsity press, Is Reality Secular?, Mary Poplin, material naturalism, Quotes, SC'14, secular, The Matrix, Tom Nagel, truth, Where the Conflict Really Lies, worldview

Is Reality Secular? Part 1

December 26, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

Is reality secular? Is adequate knowledge secular? And is that something that has been established as a fact by thorough and unbiased inquiry? Is this something that today's secular universities thoroughly and freely discuss in a disciplined way? (11) Mary Poplin  wastes no time in establishing the centrality of Dallas Willard's questions to  Is Reality Secular? What is the nature of reality?  (InterVarsity Press, 2014).  Early in Chapter 1: Truth and Consequences, she  relates the story of a seminar in which she asks, … [Read more...] about Is Reality Secular? Part 1

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Is Reality Secular Tagged With: dallas willard, intervarsity press, Is Reality Secular?, Mary Poplin, material naturalism, monotheism, pantheism, Quotes, SC'14, secular, truth, worldview

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