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Taverns and Drinking in Early America, by Sharon V. Salinger – A Review, by Matthew Lipscomb

Taverns and Drinking in Early America, by Sharon V. Salinger – A Review, by Matthew Lipscomb               Taverns and Drinking in Early America, by Sharon V. Salinger, serves to, ironically, uncork the bottle on the history of alcohol from … Continue reading

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Tragedy and Triumph, Empire and Nativity – Exploring the Life of Native American Convert Samson Occom through the Dialectical Historiography Method: Analyzing the Conflicts of the Central but Apposing Metanarratives of His Life.

Tragedy and Triumph, Empire and Nativity – Exploring the Life of Native American Convert Samson Occom through the Dialectical Historiography Method: Analyzing the Conflicts of the Central but Apposing Metanarratives of His Life.           Submitted by … Continue reading

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A review of George M. Madsen’s Jonathan Edwards – A Life.

Matthew Lipscomb University of Tennessee at Chattanooga REL 4999, Religion in the time of Edwards, Wesley and Whitfield              London Yale University Press.  615 pp.  $25.00 (paper), ISBN 0-300-09693-3.                Jonathan Edwards – A Life, … Continue reading

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Lantern Carriers of Different Lights: The Evangelical Response to the New Atheists.

Lantern Carriers of Different Lights: The Evangelical Response to the New Atheists.   In his work The Gay Science[1], Nietzsche writes of a mad atheist who enters into a village of fellow atheists who are all clueless as to the … Continue reading

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The ‘Doctor of Grace’ was ‘an Apostle of the Apophatic:’ Exploring Augustine’s Hamartiology and His Concept of Grace and Free Will Within It, With Concluding Reference to Tulips & Daisies.

The ‘Doctor of Grace’ was ‘an Apostle of the Apophatic:’ Exploring Augustine’s Hamartiology and His Concept of Grace and Free Will Within It, With Concluding Reference to Tulips & Daisies.       Augustine’s Central Philosophy and What It Informed: … Continue reading

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‘Truth to the Power, But They Still Don’t Believe,’ Dialectic Past, Present & Future: Exploring the Greek Philosophic Foundations of the Past, It’s Origin, meaning for Today, and Possibly Even the Future; with Concluding Reference to Rodney Hunter & Postmodernism

‘Truth to the Power, But They Still Don’t Believe,’ Dialectic Past, Present & Future: Exploring the Greek Philosophic Foundations of the Past, It’s Origin, meaning for Today, and Possibly Even the Future; with Concluding Reference to Rodney Hunter & Postmodernism … Continue reading

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Metanarrational Monsters, Part Eight – Concluding Thoughts: A Propaganda of Fear – To Understand Our Society, We Must Understand What It Fears and How it Sells the Fears Thereof.

Part 8 of 8 Concluding Thoughts: A Propaganda of Fear –   To Understand Our Society, We Must Understand What It Fears and How it Sells the Fears Thereof.      “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, … Continue reading

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Metanarrational Monsters, Part Seven – Zombies: Fear of the loss of Existential authenticity and apocalyptic Endings

Part 7 of 8 Archetype Six: Zombies –   Fear of the loss of Existential authenticity and apocalyptic Endings   “I don’t know what’s happening to me. I’m not alive. I’m not dead. I’m just…I’m just so lonely.” – Julie, … Continue reading

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Metanarrational Monsters – Part Six, Frankenstein: Fear of Unrestrained and Abused Science

Part 6 of 8 Archetype Five: Frankenstein –   Fear of Unrestrained and Abused Science    “It’s Aaaaaaliiiiivvvvvve!?! It’s Alive!!! It’s Alive!!!” – Prototypical comment by Frankenstein’s creator, spoken the moment of his creation’s resurrection; a line that is almost … Continue reading

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Metanarrational Monsters, Part Five – Vampires: Blood, Addiction, Sex, and Drama Queens

part 5 of 8 Archetype Four: Vampires –   Blood, Addiction, Sex, and Drama Queens  Oscar: “Are you a vampire?” Eli: “Would you like me anyway?” Oscar: “Will you be my girlfriend?” –        Oscar and Eli in Let The Right … Continue reading

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