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September 2019

September 25, 2019

Participation-in-Christ: The Major Themes

Michael Gorman, in his new and wonderful book, Participating in Christ: Explorations in Paul's Theology and...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

A World with a Better Name

Those who are images of God are summoned to build a world with a better...

November 10, 2015

What Makes a Worldview Most Christian?

While many answers might be tossed on the table to answer this question, not least...

October 2015

October 12, 2015

Elements in a Christian Worldview

It would be a good exercise for students in a classroom to ponder which thoughts...

September 2015

September 22, 2015

Heaven Promise Livestream Event

Missed Scot's LIVE Q&A on The Heaven Promise? Not to worry...you can watch it...

September 18, 2015

Building Blocks of a Christian Worldview

One of the least known and most insightful theologians and Christian leaders I have met...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

A New Perspective Anglican Ponders a Presbyterian’s Luther

This is not an April Fools day post. It's a post appreciating the greatness of...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

The Trinity (by Nature) is Freedom (Geoff Holsclaw)

Geoff Holsclaw is Affiliate Professor of Theology at Northern Seminary, and Director of their new...

March 24, 2015

Is “Trinity” Use-less? (Geoff Holsclaw)

By Geoff Holsclaw, pastor at Life on the Vine and colleague at Northern Seminary. Does...

March 09, 2015

What’s the “Old” Perspective on Paul?

I've not seen the old perspective on soteriology, as framed mostly through one reading of...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

Is God Timeless?

Roger Olson, at the link here, opens up a good conversation on whether God is...

February 11, 2015

Deconstructing the Bully God — NT Wright

Good God, bad God. That's the problem with so much Christian theology. A bad view...

February 05, 2015

Connection and Reflection

One of the gifts of the Bible to the lot of every human being who...

January 2015

January 05, 2015

Speaking about God

What do we call God? Father, Son and Spirit? Trinity? God? The Blessed One? HaShem?...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

The Eight Themes of Liberation Theology

What is liberation theology? It is fair to follow that up with What kind of...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

Christian Realism

Who is the most influential American theologian of the 20th Century? In some circles the name...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

The Ultimate Modern Theologian?

According to Roger Olson, in his The Journey of Modern Theology, the "ultimate modern theologian" is...

October 24, 2014

Reformation Revived in Disillusionment

At the heart of European Protestant theology's revolutionary developments in the 20th Century was the...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Modernity’s Challenges to Traditional Theology

Modern theology arises from the challenges, some of them successful of course, to traditional theology....

August 22, 2014

The Acids of Modernity and Christian Theology

Modern theology is theology done in the context of modernity, which means, in the context...

July 2014

July 10, 2014

Theologians and their Moral Life (by Roger Olson)

What impact does a theologian's moral life have on whether you read or are influenced...

July 03, 2014

Faith and Reason: Allies or Competitors?

Philosophy is rooted in reason and begins with detachment and skepticism. Theology is rooted in...

April 2014

April 10, 2014

The Astounding Analogy for Hauerwas

Nicholas Healy, in Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction, offers -- at the very heart of his...

April 08, 2014

Evaluating the Theology of Hauerwas: It Begins with Church

In 2001 Time magazine named Stanley Hauerwas, recently retired professor at Duke Divinity School, "America's Best...

February 2014

February 10, 2014

So, What (or Who) Are We?

"According to Answers.com, a human being consists of the following elements: oxygen (65%), carbon (18%),...

January 2014

January 08, 2014

Revising the “Deity of Christ” Discussion

If you are listening to the theological discussions today the magical term is no longer...

January 02, 2014

Liberals Arising

Evangelicals have written the story of liberalism and that story, reluctantly but seemingly irresistibly, has...

December 2013

December 27, 2013

Correction: An Even More Neglected Element of the Gospel

Not that long ago I wrote a post, based on Mike Bird's Evangelical Theology, in which...

December 26, 2013

The Greatest Drama Ever Staged (RJS)

On Christmas Eve (day) I posted a reflection from one of Dorothy Sayers' essays in...

December 04, 2013

It All Points to Jesus

In his new book, Evangelical Theology, Mike Bird points to the centrality of Christ with these...