Here in Part 3 of my series on Critical Race Theory, I am going to look at the last three chapters of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic’s book, Critical Race Theory. Chapter 6 is entitled, “Critiques and Responses to Criticism,” Chapter 7 is entitled, “Critical Race Theory Today,” and Chapter 8 is simply, “Conclusion.” Again,…
Here in Part 2 of my series on Critical Race Theory, I am going to look at chapters 3-5 of the book Critical Race Theory. As I said before in Part 1, my goal in these first three posts about the book Critical Race Theory is simply to clearly explain what the critical race theorists…
A few months ago, within the span of about a week, two separate people texted me and asked me what my opinion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) was and if I would ever consider writing a few blog posts on it. My answer was simple: I don’t really know enough about it to spout my…
We now come to what will be my last post on Eugenia Constantinou’s book, Thinking Orthodox. I’m not going to cover Part 3 of her book, “The Application of Orthodox Theology.” Here in this post, I’m going to cover the final three chapters in Part 2 of her book. Chapter 9: Orthodox Theology and the…
After a brief two-week hiatus from my book analysis series on Eugenia Constantinou’s book, Thinking Orthodox, I’m back at it with a few posts about Part 2 of her book, which focuses on Orthodox Theology and how it contributes to the shaping of the Orthodox phronema (mindset). So, without fanfare, let’s just jump right in….
About a week ago, Terry Mortenson at Answers in Genesis wrote a short article on the AiG website entitled, “Reading Genesis: ANE Hermeneutic vs. Plain Reading,” in which he took issue with the work of Wheaton College Old Testament professor John Walton, for his work regarding the proper understanding of the creation narratives in the…
So, what makes the Orthodox mindset (what Eugenia Constantinou calls phronema) different from the “Western” mindset seen in both Catholicism and Protestantism? In this post, I will be looking at chapters 4-5 in Constantinou’s book, Thinking Orthodox, in which she discusses this very thing. Chapter 4: The Orthodox PhronemaOne of the first things Constantinou talks…
In this post, I am going to look at the way Eugenia Constantinou differentiates between the Western phronema (mindset/worldview) of Catholicism and Protestantism and the Easter phronema of Orthodoxy. Let’s dive in… Chapter 3: Phronema in the Western Christian TraditionSince most of my readers are probably from the Western Christian tradition, most of what Constantinou…
Before I begin my actual analysis of Eugenia Constantinou’s Thinking Orthodox, I want to give a quick overview of the book as a whole. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 is entitled The Orthodox Phronema and it consists of five chapters. The long and short of Part 1 is (a) to discuss…
For the next couple of weeks, I am going to write a number of posts on the book Thinking Orthodox: Understanding and Acquiring the Orthodox Christian Mind, by Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou. In short (as the subtitle suggests), the book focuses primarily on two things. First, it discusses the fundamental difference in the basic outlook, mindset,…