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  • Leo Steinberg Looked at Art

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    Fred Sanders
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    Leo Steinberg (1920-2011) died earlier this week (NYT obit), leaving behind a rich legacy of writing on art, both criticism and history. There are some great art historians out there, but it’s hard to imagine who can fill the void left by a Steinberg. Steinberg is probably most famous for his critical revolt against mere…

  • Deep Things of God in Snohomish, WA

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    Fred Sanders
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    This weekend I’ll be in Snohomish, WA (way up there in the northwest corner of the country, just above Seattle) speaking on the Trinity and my book The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. I’ll be at The Bridge Church in Snohomish, for a Friday evening message (6pm) and then a Saturday…

  • Eureka: Interview about California Theology

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    Fred Sanders
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    Joe Gorra at the Evangelical Philosophical Society blog interviewed me and co-conspirator Jason Sexton about our project called Theological Engagement with California Culture. Here are a couple of excerpts from the interview. On how the project got started: The basic idea developed from a summer class that I taught a couple of times over the…

  • There Will be Trinitarian Hip Hop…

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    Fred Sanders
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    but have no fear, it won’t be me doing the rapping. I’m doing a workshop on the Trinity (why to love it, how to defend it) at the first-ever Los Angeles-based event for the Legacy Movement. It’ll be an all-day event on Saturday, April 9 in Compton, combining training workshops with a main speaker (Shai…

  • Augustine's Worst Sin

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    Fred Sanders
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    Augustine sets out, in Confessions, to confess his sins to God comprehensively. He analyzes his life story minutely, and when he brings it all the way up to date, he makes the great leap into the present tense and confesses all that is within him. “May I know you, who know me,” he says to…

  • Data-Wise

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    Diane Vincent
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    You should assume as a matter of course that at least once in your college career you will behold the blue screen of death or that your laptop will be either stolen or dropped down the fire escape or forgotten in Starbucks and that it will occur in the days before you must turn in…

  • Broken Like Brooklyn: Duke Snider Dies in California

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    Fred Sanders
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    Baseball player Duke Snider died this weekend in Escondido, California, at age 84. If you’ve got baseball in your soul, the headline is all you need to read to know that his death symbolizes more than just a personal loss to his family and friends. The death of the Duke of Flatbush means something. It…

  • What Augustine Confessed

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    Fred Sanders
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    For Augustine, writing the Confessions didn’t just mean telling (confessing) all his sins. He took “confession” as the title of his work precisely because it has such a wealth of meanings: It means to speak forth the praise of God (“confess that you are great”); it means to acknowledge something (“confess the Lord Jesus,” see…

  • The Thirteen Centers of Augustine's Confessions

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    Fred Sanders
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    Augustine’s Confessons is a uniquely rich book, so deeply felt and so carefully constructed that it beggars description. It exhausts the critical resources of centuries of commentators, and keeps on drawing new admirers who find new things there. Most well-constructed books have one central section, whether it comes early or late, whether it’s a turning-point,…

  • Jews and Arabs in Search of Wisdom: Two Book Reviews

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    Robert Llizo
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    Scholars and students who have worked their way through Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s and Oliver Leaman’s masterfully edited work, A History of Islamic Philosophy (Routledge, 2001) will, if they had bother to read the two introductions by Nasr and Leaman respectively, come away with an appreciation for how difficult it was to define the parameters of…

  • Contour of Two-Fisted Gun Monger with Knife Breath

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    Fred Sanders
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    Since the violence-drenched, action-soaked, gore-marinated trailer, there has been much debate about the details of Two-Fisted Gun Monger with Knife Breath. What does his costume look like? How many guns does he mong? How do the knives come out on his breath? Here is a clearer drawing of him. For this image, Freddy Age Ten…

  • The King's Business Requires Haste

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    Fred Sanders
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    Several years ago, I headed up a project that put ten years of the old Biola journal The King’s Business online. That means that anybody interested in Biola’s early history (1910-1920), or conservative Protestantism, or California religion, can read these otherwise hard to find issues firsthand. The site has been down for a while, but…