Gavin, Author at Truth Unites

Brothers Karamazov (3): Great Quote

The following quote is part of a speech by Dmitri Karamazov to his brother Alyosha while in prison. Dmitri is a morally reckless man who is falsely accused of his father’s murder and redeemed through...

April 16, 20101 Comment

Two Sentence Review of Surprised By Hope

I just finished N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (HarperOne 2008). Here is my review in two (very long) sentences: I found the book helpful in that:...

April 12, 2010No Comments

The Brothers Karamazov (2): Themes and Quotes

As I continue to listen to Dostoevsky’s novel, one of main themes I am picking up on is the necessity of suffering for redemption. Redemption requires suffering because only through suffering can we arrive at...

April 9, 20101 Comment

Life Everywhere is Life

In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested for being a part of a secret utopian society. After 8 months imprisonment and a mock execution, he was sentenced to 4 years of exile and hard labor in Siberia,...

April 7, 20101 Comment

Comments on Hebrews (10:19)

I could study nothing but Scripture and John Owen’s Commentary on Hebrews for the rest of my life, and I would not feel constricted at all. There is so much to it. Today for sermon...

April 6, 2010No Comments

The Brothers Karamazov (1)

I started listening to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov yesterday. I’m just finishing off Book II. One thing that has really struck me already is the book’s psychological depth. I’ve heard Dostoevsky compared with the other...

April 3, 20102 Comments

Torrance on the Ascension

Torrance’s section on the ascension in Atonement is very interesting. He discusses the extra-Calvinisticum at length and how particular understandings of space-time have hindered people from accepting it. But then he connects the incarnation and...

March 30, 2010No Comments

Lewis on the Satanic Fall and Corruption of Nature (again)

In my previous series of posts arguing that the Satanic fall may be the explanation for the fallenness of nature, I quoted C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain, chapter 9, “On Animal Pain.” While listening...

March 30, 2010No Comments

Dempster on Genesis 5:3

I’ve found some corroboration on how to read Genesis 5:3, a verse that has been perplexing me for the last year and a half: “When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in...

March 29, 2010No Comments