Posts by Gregg TenElshof

Gregg TenElshof

Gregg Ten Elshof (Ph.D.) is Professor of Philosophy at Biola University. His areas of interest include metaphysics, epistemology, modern philosophy, and Confucianism. He has published articles in numerous journals, including Midwest Studies in Philosophy, The Modern Schoolman, International Studies in Philosophy, and Christian Scholar’s Review. He is the author of books, including Confucius for Christians (2015), I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian Life (2009), which won Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award, and his most recent, For Shame: Rediscovering the Virtues of a Maligned Emotion (2021).

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• Winsome Conviction

  Episode 41: For Shame, Part 3

  Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff, Gregg TenElshof — March 28, 2022

  We’ve been talking with Gregg Ten Elshof (Ph.D.) on our need for shame. In this episode, Tim, Rick and Gregg pick up on notions of honor in order...

• Winsome Conviction

  Episode 40: For Shame, Part 2

  Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff, Gregg TenElshof — March 14, 2022

  Tim and Rick resume the discussion with Gregg Ten Elshof (Ph.D.) on the topic of shame. In part 2, they pick up on the ways communities influence...

• Winsome Conviction

  Episode 39: For Shame, Part 1

  Rick Langer, Tim Muehlhoff, Gregg TenElshof — February 28, 2022

  Is shame good or bad? In one sense, it is bad. In another sense, according to Gregg Ten Elshof (Ph.D.), author of the recent book For Shame:...

• Think Biblically

  Rediscovering the Virtue of Shame

  with Gregg Ten Elshof

  Sean McDowell, Scott Rae, Gregg TenElshof — February 06, 2022

  Shame has been maligned as a harmful emotion that has no place in human flourishing. But is this view correct? Is it biblical? Sean and Scott talk...

• Biola Magazine

  Self-Deception by Means of Procrastination

  Gregg TenElshof — February 28, 2010

  Beliefs are sometimes demanding. Often they break in on us unexpectedly and take to ordering us around like uninvited tyrants. One minute we’re...