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Law School for Everyone: Constitutional Law
- By: Eric Berger, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Eric Berger
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 779
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 671
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 666
Americans wage many of today’s fiercest policy debates and culture wars over constitutional meaning. It’s because constitutional law is so fundamental to our democracy that law schools across the country teach the subject. It's the area of law that determines what federal and state governments are permitted to do, and what rights you have as an individual citizen of the US. Here, you'll get the same accessible, well-rounded introduction to constitutional law as a typical law student - but with the added benefit of noted constitutional scholar Eric Berger's brilliant insights.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read with this Neil Gorsuch!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-03-20
- Law School for Everyone: Constitutional Law
- By: Eric Berger, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Eric Berger
Very Informative
Reviewed: 06-29-23
The lecturer was very engaging, and the content was helpful. It seems to lean somewhat left of center, but most reasonable people should not find it overbearing.
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Understanding the US Government
- By: Jennifer Nicoll Victor, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Jennifer Nicoll Victor
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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In these 24 refreshingly balanced lectures, Professor Victor presents a comprehensive examination of American politics in which she demystifies its many puzzles and offers a nonpartisan look at the outcomes it produces.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Tale of Two Courses (Feel a Bit Hoodwinked)
- By Tommy D'Angelo on 09-21-20
Helpful, With Issues.
Reviewed: 06-09-23
Overall, really helpful.
For context, I am a conservative independent. I think Professor Victor may be left of center. Even so, I thought she had many helpful things to say about American Government and politics. I learned a lot, and agreed with a lot, even if I shook my head a few times.
I find it interesting, and encouraging, that she seems to respect the time honored institutions, even as she identity ways they have let us down over the years. The changes she suggests aren't radical, and in some ways attempt to preserve the status quo. In these way, she seems to share views with classical conservatives.
Nevertheless, she seems to value equality over liberty, and with this conservatives will disagree, especially since she seems to view equality as an equality of outcome. This she views as a matter of justice, but it's not clear why different outcomes are necessarily unjust, and she fails to explain this point.
Overall, I highly recommend this series of lectures, even if there are points at which I strongly disagree.
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What is the Gospel?
- By: Greg Gilbert
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 251
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Story5 out of 5 stars 211
This newest addition to the IX Marks series presents a clear, straightforward statement of the gospel, the third mark of a healthy church. What is the gospel? It seems like a simple question, yet it has been known to incite some heated responses, even in the church. How are we to formulate a clear, biblical understanding of the gospel? Tradition, reason, and experience all leave us ultimately disappointed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Calvinism at its finest...aka back loaded works
- By Cordelia House on 08-20-20
- What is the Gospel?
- By: Greg Gilbert
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
A Good Summary of the Good News
Reviewed: 04-12-23
Concise and precise articulation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. A helpful work for anyone. Non-Christians will discover the essence of the Christian faith. Believers will be reminded, encouraged, and equipped to share.
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Missions: How the Local Church Goes Global
- 9marks Series
- By: Andy Johnson
- Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story5 out of 5 stars 38
Every local church should be engaged with global missions, even if most individuals in the church aren't called to go overseas. But what does this engagement actually look like? How can local churches train, send, and support missionaries well? Unpacking principles from the Bible and applying them in the context of real life in a local church, this new book in the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series is filled with practical steps and advice for supporting missionaries, forming international partnerships, sending short-term teams, and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From a missionary on the field... This book is great!!!
- By Ryan Beachy on 02-17-24
- Missions: How the Local Church Goes Global
- 9marks Series
- By: Andy Johnson
- Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
Great Intro!
Reviewed: 04-12-23
An excellent, short book covering the basics of missions from a Reformed/Calvinistic Baptist perspective.
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Logic
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- By: Graham Priest
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4 out of 5 stars 16
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit disappointing.
- By MarshallP1991 on 12-16-21
- Logic
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- By: Graham Priest
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
A bit disappointing.
Reviewed: 12-16-21
Generally seems to be a good introduction to logic, though one would walk away from the book under the misleading impression that logic disproves the existence of God. Priest seems to take every opportunity to explain why he doesn't think the Christian theistic proofs hold up, which gives the distinct impression of axe grinding. Granted, some of the theistic proofs offered by Christians do seem to be problematic, such as the teleological arguement, or Pascal's wager. However, Priest seems to either misunderstand or misrepresent the Argument from First Causes, since it is not at all like his example of mothers. Saying that I have a mother, and you have a mother, therefore we must have the same mother is not analogous to saying everything seems to have a cause, and the cause of everything seems to be some prior cause. If we back track the train of causes then we seem to need either an infinite train of causes (an impossibility) or a beginning cause which got everything else going, is a sufficient for it's own existence. Whether or not this works is a serious question, but in any case, it is an argument untouched by Priest, who chose to attack a strawman.
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Exodus Old and New
- A Biblical Theology of Redemption (Essential Studies in Biblical Theology Series, Book 2)
- By: L. Michael Morales
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story5 out of 5 stars 49
L. Michael Morales examines the key elements of three major redemption movements in Scripture: the exodus out of Egypt, the second exodus foretold by the prophets, and the new exodus accomplished by Jesus Christ. We discover how the blood of a Passover lamb helps us grasp the significance of Jesus' death on the cross, how the Lord's defeat of Pharaoh foreshadowed Jesus' victory over Satan, how Israel's exodus out of Egypt unfolds the meaning of the resurrection, and much more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- By MarshallP1991 on 12-13-21
- Exodus Old and New
- A Biblical Theology of Redemption (Essential Studies in Biblical Theology Series, Book 2)
- By: L. Michael Morales
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Outstanding
Reviewed: 12-13-21
This is one of the best books available on Audible. I very much hope that more titles from the series will be available soon.
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The Conservative Tradition
- By: Patrick N. Allitt, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Patrick N. Allitt
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 653
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 580
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 571
A thorough understanding of Conservatism's lineage, principles, and impact on history is essential to making sense of the 21st-century political dialogue-a dialogue that consumes the television you watch, the newspapers you read, and the radio you listen to.No matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum, these 36 lectures will intrigue you, engage you, and maybe even provoke you to think about this political philosophy in an entirely new way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another gem by Prof. Allitt & The Great Courses
- By Quaker on 07-12-14
- The Conservative Tradition
- By: Patrick N. Allitt, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Patrick N. Allitt
Fantastic
Reviewed: 07-07-21
My history prof in university recommended that I find material by Patrick Allitt, especially regarding conservatism and US History. This history of conservatism is very informative, thought provoking, and Allitt is a lively speaker. This pairs well with Kirk, but especially with Scruton.
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- By: George M. Marsden
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 91
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular liberalelites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Such a relevant book to our current world
- By Adam Shields on 09-14-16
- The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- By: George M. Marsden
- Narrated by: William Hughes
Very Enlightening
Reviewed: 03-11-21
A really helpful look at the changes which took place in the 1950s, the rise of the Evangelical Right, the problems in the Evangelical Right, and how we might correct our path by imitating Abraham Kyuper.
The reader sounds a bit like Dan Carlin.
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Cynical Theories
- How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
- By: Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,758
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,487
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,462
Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed to challenge the logic of Western society? In this probing volume, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Vast Amount of Jargon Lost Me
- By P. Jackson on 10-23-20
- Cynical Theories
- How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
- By: Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
This Conservative Agrees (mostly)
Reviewed: 11-04-20
A very insightful critique of critical theory, from a liberal point of view. Pluckrose and Lindsay offer powerful counters to the latest manifestation of postmodern philosophy, Theory. Their analysis is clear, cogent, and penetrating. A conservative myself, I still found much to affirm. There really isn't much to say by way of a analysis that Pluckrose and Lindsay have not said here. Conservatives and Liberals agree; Critical Theory is lethal poison to our civilization. We also agree, that we must not allow CT to continue evading rational interaction in the marketplace of ideas.
Conservatives will doubtless not sign off on every jot and tittle, but nevertheless, this work is a contribution to our current conversation of inestimable value.
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The Evangelicals
- The Struggle to Shape America
- By: Frances FitzGerald
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 25 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 295
This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America - from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election. Evangelicals have, in many ways, defined the nation. They have shaped our culture and our politics. Frances FitzGerald's narrative of this distinctively American movement is a major work of history, piecing together the centuries-long story for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By Gary LA on 12-27-17
- The Evangelicals
- The Struggle to Shape America
- By: Frances FitzGerald
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Great Content
Reviewed: 07-24-20
For the part of the author, I have nothing but praise. Good content, good story telling, good research, all making for an engaging listen.
For the part of the reader, I have one complaint. His tone, pace, and inflection were very good, but his volume was too low.It felt like he was telling me a very long secret.
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