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,…
A couple of weeks ago, on one of the Creation/Evolution Facebook groups I follow, there was a thread about how Ken Ham, the founder of Answers in Genesis, had spent about five pages in his book, Six Days, lambasting someone in the Facebook group because this person didn’t accept Ken Ham’s views. People were getting…
We now come to the final post of my book analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne. I’ve gone through most of her book, so in this post I simply want to make some concluding comments regarding, not only her book as a whole, but also what I fear is the…
We now come to the next-to-last post of my book analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne. In this post, I will look at chapter 15, which looks at the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. Let’s get triggered! Chapter 15: A New High Priest–A SummaryChapter 15 takes us up…
We now come to Part 8 of my book analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne. In this post, I will look at chapter 14, which looks at the Evangelicals in the Obama and years. Chapter 14: Spiritual Bad Asses—Summary and Response Obama and Jeremiah WrightIn this chapter, Kobes Du Mez…