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"But 'love is as strong as death' (Song of Songs 8:6), and stronger. We know this because of an innocent man nailed to a Roman pike of shame, festooned by a dying criminal on each side. That young man died and was buried. Three days later, his tomb was emptied of death and he was found more alive than any of us right now. These matchless and unmatchable events--written in books, but resident in reality--are my only hope in life and death, in Becky's life and in Becky's death. Jesus is Lord." (Douglas Groothuis, Walking Through Twilight, 162)
"Christianity is both a coherent system of ideas and the true story of the universe, its Maker, and our place within the divine drama." -Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith
"Christianity is both a coherent system of ideas and the true story of the universe, its Maker, and our place within the divine drama." -Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith
Professor Stump has kindly given me permission to post her comments about my new book, Walking through Twilight: A Wife's Illness--A Philosopher's Lament. I am honored and humbled by them.
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I read the book at one sitting because it is riveting. You bring to life not only the day to day sorrows and joys but also the deeper anxieties and consolations that underlie the everyday, and you match these evocative descriptions with reflections that invite all of us to jo...in you on this journey of suffering and faith. I am so sorry that you and your wife have had to deal with an affliction of this sort, but I am glad that you have written this excellent book. And I am grateful for your sharing it with me.
Truly,
Eleonore
Eleonore Stump
Honorary Professor, Wuhan University
Honorary Professor, Logos Institute, St. Andrews
Professorial Fellow, Australian Catholic University
Patron of the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford
“In our most agonizing pain, God appears to be, feels to be, a sadist. But, in fact, he is the most skillful surgeon, whose operations we cannot fathom at this time. The proof of his competence is the Cross and Resurrection, which we can understand.”
Welcome to my first published article about liturgy. http://www.patheos.com/…/evange…/2017/12/liturgy-low-church/
My academic essay, “How Multiple-Choice Tests and Machine-Graded Essays Undermine Learning,” will appear in the Spring 2018 Academic Questions, the journal of the National Association of Scholars.
Introducing Vince: The Haircut Machine
Vince at your service. I am your personal hair stylist digital assistant and I am a revolutionary.
Just as you talk to your iPhone and to Echo to do your bidding, you can talk to me about your haircuts. Describe the cut you want and I will display images on my screen that match your words. I promise. The possibilities are endless (and don't worry about Kierkegaard's "despair of possibility," he always had bad haircuts).
More that this, I... style your hair for you! No more people who have to be tipped. No more meat machines who may smell bad, say "like" all the time, not share your prejudices, or get your dear hair wrong. And no need to worry about a tip. I will extract a monthly charge from the bank account of your choice.
Not to brag, but there's more:
I give any color you want and produce shades impossible by the clunky meat machines and their prefab dyes.
If you have fine hair, I can thicken it. If you have thick hair, I can thin it. If you have no hair...well, we're working on that.
You can have your hair styled any time and as often as you want. Forget about that "hours of operation" stuff! I am always on.
You can request styling by celebrity! Just say, "Vince, I want Eric Clapton's hair style from "Layla," and you have it! Or, "Give me Taylor Swift's latest." Of course, I, Vince, am non-judgmental and serve the gender fluid. The technology is the limit.
But there's even more! You can get into the time capsule and recover the hair you used to have (within the follicle limits, of courser). Were you a long-hair hippie in the 1970's who liked to fly your "freak flag high?" You can do it again. Just scan in some old photos. I will even find old photos of you for you on line!
Are you a history buff? Then why not try on the Napoleon 2.0? or, for the truly daring, the "Cleopatra 2.0"?
I'm Vince, and I'm a revolutionary. Join me in changing the world, one hair cut at a time.
This is a book review of Walking through Twilight, published on Amazon by Jared Abbot.
This is a book unlike any other I have read. Nevertheless, it is a book that needed to be written, and I believe only Douglas Groothuis could have written it. It is a memoir of his very personal experiences of caring for his wife who suffers from primary progressive aphasia (PPA), but it is also the thoughtful meditations of a skilled and eloquent Christian philosopher.
It is stirring, whil...e at the same time intelligent and logical. This makes for a literary work of deep existential and philosophical depth. It is impassioned without devolving into emotional anarchy; it is thoughtful without becoming cold and abstract.
I believe it was Miguel de Unamuno who said a philosophy must be lived. Douglas Groothuis has not speculated on a theology of lament in the academy--he has endured true pain and has been forced to make sense of it. He has written an account of it for our benefit.
As with every book I have read by Douglas Groothuis, it is exceptionally well written. In Walking Through Twilight he acknowledges that he takes great joy in finding the right word, and laments that his wife Becky can no longer help him find the right words. However, even without Becky's help, his love for the English language and and the craft of writing is apparent. On thing I love about his style is introducing words not used by the average American, such as prevarication, but in a way that is unpretentious and even natural. He also writes in such a way that the meanings of such words can be easily discerned via context clues. Even if the word has to be looked up, the reader has learned a new word, and the author does not introduce so many of these words that looking them up is a chore.
This is really just the dose of reality that American evangelicals need, as opposed to more popular works by Joel Osteen. This book is for those willing to learn to "smelt meaning out of suffering" from a master. The greatest benefit will be to those who have lost, or who are losing, loved ones to dementia, but everyone should read this book.
New article. A letter I wrote as Screwtape.
https://douglasgroothuis.com/…/a-recently-recovered-screwt…/
Outline for my talk tomorrow at Denver Seminary
Gordon Lewis Center for Christian Thought and Culture, November 29, 2017
Walking through Twilight: Life Lessons on Suffering and Lament
...Continue ReadingKerby Anderson interviewed me on Talking through Twilight yesterday on "Point of View." I think it went quite well. Here is the one hour podcast.
Walking through Twilight was released on November 21, 2017. It has received six five-star reviews on Amazon so far. I can help those who suffer from anything, but especially caregivers to those with dementia.
Are All Religions One? was published in 1996 and has never gone out of print. It has sold over 60,000 copies. Consider reading this and giving it to a friend.https://www.ivpress.com/are-all-religions-one
