by Collin Brendemuehl | Jun 23, 2018 | Apologetics, Book Review
The Problem of Ideas John Gray’s “Seven Type of Atheism” My first reading of John Gray was his book “Black Mass, Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia.” It’s a good and useful piece, outlining the historic theological...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Feb 17, 2018 | Book Review
Book Review: Science Unlimted? The Challenges of Scientism This book should be read as a conversation. While they all agree that scientism has a place the dialogue is constructed around what the place is and the reach it has into areas outside the natural sciences. It...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Jan 4, 2018 | Book Review
Book Review: What Are We Doing Here? Essays by Marilynne Robinson C. S. Lewis once challenged us to read the old books. That piece, which we treat as an essay, was actually the introduction to a translation of Athanasius’ On the Incarnation. Lewis recognized...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Nov 28, 2017 | Apologetics, Book Review
Book Review: Amazing Grace of Quantum Physics Paperback: 282 pages Publisher: Pickwick Publications (November 7, 2017) ISBN-10: 1532614217 ISBN-13: 978-1532614217 Reality is slippery business. … When a Muslim finds that quantum mechanics claims a system “really”...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Nov 19, 2017 | Apologetics, Book Review
Book Review: Theistic Evolution, a Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique The discussion of origins is perhaps the strongest argument against Christianity, and religion in general, to ever arise in human dialogue. The apologetic concerns are many and the...
by Collin Brendemuehl | May 20, 2017 | Book Review, Ethics
How to be a Stoic, Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life, Massimo Pigliucci, Basic Books (NY) 2017. Introduction In the 20th century the “west” succumbed to the infiltration of skepticism to the masses. In past centuries it was generally limited to academic...
