Lydia mcgrew has judiciously excavated and reassessed neglected biblical. A brief update on the status of my book, hidden in plain view. Yet a whole new front is opened up in this excellent new book which looks at. If you go here you can read the original story and see if its the one you remember. Undesigned coincidences in the gospels and acts was published in 2017 by deward publishing.
God makes it clear that we are to display gods love, even to those who are mean. But its plain in scripture that god has chosen to create us to and to use us to. Society of iowa, provided the vision and leadership to make this project. Mcgrew defines an undesigned coincidence as a notable connection between two or more accounts or texts that doesnt seem to have been planned by the person or people giving the accounts. And in her new book hidden in plain view, philosopher lydia mcgrew introduces one of those approaches. Assorted reference books illustrating quilt patterns.
They are the things we see and use every day and which are so. Hidden in plain view the book is an analysis of what mcgrew labels undesigned coincidences in the gospels, acts, and pauline epistles. We inevitably bring subjective, personal views which, left unchecked, could twist its. Lydia mcgrew offers a third line of defense in her new book, hidden in plain view. March 5, 2007 did slaves use secretly coded quilt patterns to help plan their escapes on the underground. Hidden in plain view is ultimately a book about a woman who meets a black quilter at a market in charleston, sc and goes down multiple rabbit holes to break a secret code. Lydia mcgrew gives a lecture on a number of undesigned coincidences from her book, hidden in plain view. Lydia mcgrew lectures on the undesigned coincidences found in the gospels and the book of acts.
Lydia mcgrew expertly reveals these evidential gems hidden in plain sight and shows how they. Hidden in plain view is lydia mcgrew s second book. She calls it the argument from undesigned coincidences. Supported by careful research yet accessibly written, hidden in plain view provides solid evidence that all christians can use to defend the scriptures and the truth of christianity.
In her recent book, hidden in plain view, philosopher and christian apologist lydia mcgrew seeks to breathe new life into an old defense of the historical reliability of the new testament. For a written interview on the book and what its all about, see cogent christianity, here. Sage reference encyclopedia of disability sage knowledge. Lydia mcgrew has written a fascinating book in defense of the reliability of the. Defending the accuracy of scripture, one coincidence at a. Although the argument from undesigned coincidences appeared two hundred years ago, it was largely forgotten for most of the last century.
Undesigned coincidences in the gospels and acts revives an argument for the historical reliability of the new testament that has been largely neglected for more than a. Washington state library washington secretary of state. This important work brings modern scholarship to the argument from undesigned coincidences and does so in a way that is. In hidden in plain view, historian jacqueline tobin and scholar raymond dobard offer the first proof that certain quilt patterns, including a prominent one called. Marcelino seems to make a friend, later presumed to be christ, who is hidden in the. That old argument focuses on the undesigned coincidences found within the text of the gospels and the book of acts as well as the pauline epistles. Pacific northwest, where he discovers some longhidden family secrets. The quilter, ozella, draws in the author tobin with an oral history of the meaning of quilt lore as used among slaves in the antebellum south. Josh wrote the book because he believes knowledge, not ignorance, is the.
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