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Exhibit A (Talarico) and B (comment) on why today's Christian leaders need *philosophical* training in particular, both to identify and evaluate load-bearing metaphysical claims made in the public square and to help others do the same.

@ethan_mwilliams Yes author copies. :)

@Rossinman No author copy?!

My book Contemplating Divine Simplicity: Five Views releases next month (4/16) with Bloomsbury Academic. If at an institution, please consider having your library purchase a copy. The rest of us will wait for the paperback to come out! amazon.com/Contemplating-…

@kyleworley @MBTS PhD in Apologetics?! Amen brother.

On campus this week @MBTS for a seminar on philosophical theology and here is what I am seeing: *Happy students - I am blown away by how happy the students seem to be here. They are engaged and energized. *Accessible faculty - I ran into multiple professors today just being with students. Talking with them, sitting with them. *Hospitality - @drandrewmking invited me to come train jiu jitsu with him this week, @KodyGibby ran into me and suggested lunch. This seems normal here. *Professors are interested in ideas - This might sound obvious, but I've been in three different seminaries and let me tell you: It's not. The professors at MBTS are interested in serious engagement with ideas. They are neither dismissive nor disinterested. If you are looking to jump into seminary education, take it from someone who has degrees from three other strong seminaries: Nobody is doing what MBTS is doing like they are doing it. They are operating at a different level right now. Dive in.

@AndrewTWalker Two cheers for ontology! We shall, Lord willing, make ontology great again.

Christian ethics does not start with "what works," but with "what is." Christian ethics is grounded first in ontology and only then expressed in practice. Being precedes doing, and the givenness of reality establishes the horizon within which moral action operates.

Jordan's new book is an outstanding theologically and philosophically informed introduction to the issues and options concerning the retrieval of various forms of classical theism today. Pick up a copy!

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@ThomasDoane1 Of course!

@Rossinman Thanks, @Rossinman , I've been doing research on NLT and epistemic justification and I've had a hard time finding fruitful resources.

I think this is the best single volume out there on the broad shape of the natural law tradition. The unique blend of primary historical sources and sources in contemporary moral and metaphysical issues related to natural law is, I think, unrivaled. Check it out!

And I think Grabill’s book is still one of the best for a treatment of NL in the Reformed theological tradition.

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Really enjoying Maximus's Ambigua this Advent! Harvard University Press has a really nice diglot edition.

"Out of His infinite longing for human beings, He has become truly and according to nature the very thing for which He longed." -Maximus the Confessor

@Eli_Kunkel Congrats Eli! It was a joy to have you in my Anselm class. God’s blessing upon you as you go!

Graduated with my M.A. in Christian Studies today from SEBTS and got to reconnect with my Philosophy of Religion profs Dr. @Rossinman and (X-less) Dr. Greg Welty. Anyone interested in PhilofRel should read their stuff—it’s great. Thankful for the chance to study under them!

I always love the pageantry, hymns, and Christmas decorations of our Fall graduation at Southeastern seminary.

@sethbarnett41 Seth, what a joy to be your friend and teacher these past 8 years through College and seminary. What a privilege to watch the Lord mature you intellectually and spiritually. God’s blessing be upon you, I know your philosophical training will serve you well in life and ministry.

There are many professors that I have had the privilege of studying under during Seminary, but I got the privilege of studying under @Rossinman in Texas and in Wake Forest at SEBTS! I would be lucky if I became half the philosopher that he is!

Ross Inman, Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Invitation to Wonder A modern Enchiridion that aims to introduce Christian readers to an older, more ancient vision of Christian philosophy as an entire way of seeing and living in the world. I'm personally fond of this one!

James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine A spiritually-animated tour of Augustine's Confessions as an existentially-oriented apologetic for the truth and beauty of a Christian philosophical way of life. @james_ka_smith

It's been encouraging to see a host of recent-ish books published that I would classify as "Christian public philosophy" as they're written to communicate ancient Judeo-Christian philosophical insights to a wider audience outside the academy. Here are some I'd recommend: 🧵