tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6800880488129650926Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:18:04 +0000http://cwvreview.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ben Tackett)Blogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6800880488129650926.post-16811349062796269Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:07:00 +00002009-01-01T05:07:00.134-05:00Some notes I made on Doug Wilson's The Stalwart Courage of John KnoxKnox was born a two or three years before Luther posted his 95 Theses in 1517. Reformation & revival was spreading through Europe. And "Scotland was a spiritual badlands" (p.5). Ecclesiastical corruption was widespread in Scotland. So it is not suprising that Knox was drawn to the Scriptures and the early church fathers whilehttp://cwvreview.blogspot.com/2009/01/stalwart-courage-of-john-knox-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Tackett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6800880488129650926.post-1593982766503925212Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:30:00 +00002008-12-18T13:49:26.039-05:00The Mismeasure of Manby Stephen Jay Gould"biological determinism ... holds that shared behavioral norms, and the social and economic differences between human groups--primarily races, classes, and sexes--arise from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society, in this sense, is accurate reflection of biology." (P.52)Is there a relationship between race and IQ? Is intelligence a function of http://cwvreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/mismeasure-of-man-by-stephen-jay-gould.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Tackett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6800880488129650926.post-6873250116459238273Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:38:00 +00002008-12-05T17:40:25.568-05:00The Life of John Calvinby Theodore BezaThis one hundred-twenty page book tells Calvin's life from a colleague's perspective. Translated by Henry Beveridge, who translated an edition of The Institutes which has been popular for over a hundred years, this particular edition is edited and published by Gary Sanseri, a homeschool parent. The editor adds endnotes to explain words which a gradeschool http://cwvreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/life-of-john-calvin-by-theodore-beza.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Tackett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6800880488129650926.post-8280572542462042702Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:57:00 +00002008-12-03T18:02:04.076-05:00Practical vs. Abstract ThinkingI have been reading Alfred North Whitehead's Introduction to Mathematics...He explains the value of mathematics in its ability to speak generally about particulars.In ch. 2 he shows how variables do the same for numbers, they can express generalizations about numerical relationships.Ch. 3 is on the application, and false application, of mathematics to particulars, http://cwvreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/introduction-to-mathematics-by-alfred.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Tackett)0