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2015-11-29T14:02:00-05:00

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The Remarkable Career of a Young Academic (to the tune of “The Vicar of Bray”)

Last updated on: November 29, 2015 at 2:02 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

When I got out of graduate school,I applied to a Christian college,Where I found it was the golden ruleTo integrate faith and knowledge.Worldviews that did with this conflict,I poked ’em full of holes, sir;And my concern was very strictTo save my students’ souls, sir. Refrain: And to this rule I shall agreeUntil I am a wraith, sir;That whoever shall give a job to me,I’ll sign their statement of faith, sir.When tenure time was coming round,My prospects seemed uncertain.So I took... Read more

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2015-09-18T19:24:00-05:00

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Patheos blog on Pope Francis

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 7:24 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

I was invited to participate in a panel of responses to Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to the U.S. Here it is. The title I would have chosen if they had asked would have been “Pope Francis and the alternative to empire,” or, if I’d been feeling particularly punchy, “Pope Francis confronts the Empire.” Read more

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2015-09-07T15:55:00-05:00

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Kim Davis and the ethics of workplace resistance

Last updated on: September 7, 2015 at 3:55 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

I hadn’t planned to write a formal blog post about Kim Davis. I’ve gotten involved in several conversations about her on FB recently, mostly playing devil’s advocate, and I thought probably that was enough–or even too much. But then my beloved wife Jennifer complained that she didn’t have anyone writing about Davis on the Patheos Faith and Work Channel, and I agreed to write a blog post here and have her repost it over there. So, with some misgivings, here... Read more

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2015-09-03T15:33:00-05:00

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Wolf Hall and the myth of the Moral Pragmatist

Last updated on: September 3, 2015 at 3:33 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

The BBC/PBS miniseries Wolf Hall is six hours of some of the most absorbing television (or just storytelling generally) I’ve ever seen. I have not yet read the books by Hilary Mantel on which the show is based, but now I certainly intend to. The series does a splendid job of dramatizing the tense and devious politics of the Henrician court, and its central character, Thomas Cromwell, is splendidly acted (by Mark Rylance) and a riveting fictional portrait. Emphasis on... Read more

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2015-09-03T15:23:00-05:00

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Acton blog series

Last updated on: September 3, 2015 at 3:23 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

This summer, I wrote a series of blogs on my experiences at the “Acton Institute” and my reflections afterwards. You can read them on the Patheos “Mission:Work” blog here (this takes you to the last post, which has links to all the others). Read more

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2015-06-14T14:36:00-05:00

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Canon and authority–a common Catholic argument analyzed

Last updated on: June 14, 2015 at 2:36 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

One of the strongest Catholic arguments against Protestantism is the challenge, “how do you explain the canon of the New Testament on sola scriptura principles?” At the same time, Catholics often throw away their advantage by silly overstatement. It is nonsense to say, for instance, that “there was no Bible for 300 years,” and it is not self-evident that the Church that canonized the Bible was simply identical to the contemporary “Roman Catholic Church,” or that accepting the canon automatically... Read more

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2015-05-16T20:29:00-05:00

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Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 7–final thoughts

Last updated on: May 16, 2015 at 8:29 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

When I began this series, I made it clear that I approached Boyd’s theology with a very different attitude to its two major components. I was quite willing to be persuaded of his “warfare theology,” which appealed to many intuitions I already had about major themes in Scripture. But I very much wanted to find a way to take warfare theology and leave open theism. So where do I stand now? With regard to open theism, Boyd has further confirmed... Read more

2015-04-19T15:32:00-05:00

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Letter to the board of trustees of Northwest Nazarene University with regard to the firing of Tom Oord

Last updated on: April 19, 2015 at 3:32 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

I did not originally intend this as an open letter, but my wife urged me to publish it on the grounds that some of what I say here about issues in contemporary evangelical higher education is worth saying publicly. And I tend to trust her judgment on that sort of thing. Background for those who don’t already know: recently a tenured theology professor at Northwest Nazarene, Tom Oord, was suddenly laid off, allegedly for budgetary reasons. Since the president of... Read more

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2015-04-14T20:18:00-05:00

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Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 6–how it all fits together

Last updated on: April 14, 2015 at 8:18 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

Boyd’s “warfare theology” is a comprehensive account of how God relates to the world in providence and salvation, from creation to the final consummation. Having looked at parts of this theology over the previous several posts, we’re now in a position to examine how it all comes together. And in doing so, I want to highlight several parts of Boyd’s theology that don’t come under the previous headings, particularly his eschatology (which is one of my favorite parts of his... Read more

2015-03-15T18:18:00-05:00

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Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 5–open theism

Last updated on: March 15, 2015 at 6:18 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

As I said in my first post in this series, my knowledge of open theism before reading Boyd was primarily dependent on the work of John Sanders and William Hasker (also David Woodruff and Tom Oord). I respect Sanders’ work very much but did not find his presuppositions with regard to open theism convincing. Hasker held my feet to the fire on a number of points of logic in very helpful and challenging ways, but again I found his understanding... Read more

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