Which one is Art?
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This morning’s Drudge Report said: HOLLYWOOD ROCKED: ‘GAY COWBOY’ MOVIE BECOMES AN OSCAR FRONTRUNNERArriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys, UNIVERSAL/FOCUS FILMS’s BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has quietly become an award season frontrunner, interviews with Academy members reveal.
“It could very well be the last film standing at this year’s Oscars,” a top Hollywood producer not associated with the film explained from Hollywood.
“There was not a dry eye in the house at the screening at Telluride [Film Festival in Colorado],” says the producer, who asked not to be named out of respect for the cast and crew of the producer’s own Oscar contender. “Watch it come out of the gate at the Golden Globes with super controversy.”
What are we to say?
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If I can’t recommend my own book, then why write it in the first place? However, I won’t review it. That, I’ll leave to others. You may in the comment section if you like. Good, bad or indifferent. It is a faulty piece at best – but I do believe there is some practical advice to be had in avoiding my mistakes. The review below was by Gareth James in the Evangelical Times.
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Dogmatic Theology
William G. T. Shedd
Third Edition
Edited by: Alan W. Gomes
Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 2003
Phillipsburg, N.JIn order to write this review, I have to tell you a personal story.
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Yeah, its dated. But the book continues to sell and spawn ancillary “products”. Maybe a look back is worth it. Besides, it was still in my files. Waste not, want not!
It raises some of the perennial problems we have in Evangelicalism both in terms of superstitious approaches to Christianinty, as well as prayer itself. Hopefully, I’ll blog on both sometime in the relatively near future. But for now – Heeeeer’s Bruce!
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No, this isn’t about being a stand-up comedian in the pulpit – it is a short essay on how ridicule cannot only be proper in preaching at times – but downright necessary.
As well as the cautions that ought to go with it.
By the way – this pic of Dr. Shedd is thanks to the efforts of “AHuman”.
Building off of the Spurgeon mongraph I linked to on the PyroManiac site below – here are some provocative words from my absolute favorite of the systematic theologians – W. G. T. Shedd.
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Regarding humorsarcastic humor in particularSpurgeon said,
Check out this quote from Spurgeon on Phil Johnson’s blog PyroManiac
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“Science rules out the most cartoonish versions of God by debunking specific claims about ancient civilizations in North America or the creation ex nihilo of human life.” Daniel Gilbert.Really? Science rules out the creation ex nihilo of human life? What would Hugh Ross think of that?
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You cannot possibly read this book and find out more about Jesus. You can only know more about what Anne Rice thinks Jesus said thought and did when He was 7 years old. Dreamers and self-styled mystics will have a hay-day with it. Dont you be one of them.
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Scott Ferguson, in his excellent comment on the original “Older than Dirt” raised a question that was resurrected by a friend of mine, Brad Hansen. I was hoping to find time to go back and address what Scott said when I HAD time. Then Brad sent me some pages from Hugh Ross’s books, “Creation in Time” and it forced my hand. In that book, Ross addresses the “False Age Theory” first penned by Philip Gosse, a British biologist and preacher. Ross raises some objections to the view that might be worth walking through.
Brad and I have bounced the creation theories around for a couple of years now – and he always adds interesting things to consider. Makes for good discussion.
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