2011 February

Are you a Bellian or Piperian?

February 28, 2011 by Tripp Fuller 9 Comments

What does a poodle and an ox have in common? Not much and it’s pretty clear for most. For some reason Rob Bell‘s upcoming book Love Wins created the perfect opportunity for the Right Wing Calvinists to say out loud what they have thought about Rob, the Jason Bourne of evangelicalism, for a long time. I don’t know many theologically invested types that would have confused Rob Bell with John Piper & the Gospel Coalition but apparently it happened. Rob’s new boom is apparently enough for Joshua Harris to kiss Rob Bell goodbye….tentatively. Now I am sure the Neo-Calvinists are not showing Nooma DVDs and listening to Rob’s sermons but I found out in the twitter fiasco that a bunch of people do and they were taken back by the conflict. So if you were one of the people who want Jesus to save Christians while desiring God and are now trying to find out who to keep in your iPod then this little quiz is for you! By answering these few questions you can figure out if you are more of a Bellian or a Piperian.

1. When God looks at you…
P. His Holiness sees one totally depraved, a sinner deserving nothing but damnation
B. Your Creator sees a beautiful part of God’s Good world

2. We know that God is Love because…
P. The salvation of even one sinner
B. Our Redeemer continuously, freely, and faithfully pursues us through Sin, Law, and Death

3. God’s work in the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus is Good News for…
P. A limited number of people God chose before time (and not for the reprobate majority)
B. All of God’s Creation…every person, society, and all of history.

4. The Christian Gospel is persuasive because….
P. You have to! God wills your election, gives you faith, and preserves it.
B. You get to! The story in scripture, the work of God in the world, and life in the way of Jesus is eternally good, true, and beautiful.

PS. Please save yourself the time and don’t tell me that you just believe the Bible. I am sure both of these fellas read it, love it, preach it, and do so with the best intentions. The difference – which is radical – is hermeneutics and not fidelity and integrity.

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“The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” – The Conference

February 28, 2011 by Tripp Fuller 1 Comment

Friend of the podcast and living theological legend John Caputo has an invitation for you…..

Syracuse University

April 7-9, 2011

Postmodernism, Culture and Religion 4

“The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion”

Conference Program

Printable pdf Version

For full details, visit : http://pcr.syr.edu

(Updated Feb 4, 2011)

Thursday

3:30-5:30 CONCURRENT SESSION 1

Panel A: Focus on Harvey Cox
Moderator: TBA

Affirmations, Negations, Counter-Reformations: The S-Word in the Theologians’ Pit

Lissa McCullough, Independent Scholar
Does the Religious Intellectual have a Future? Harvey Cox, Post-Secular Spirituality, and Living Religiously in Public

G. Michael Zbaraschuk, Pacific Lutheran University

Respondent:
Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School

Panel B: Engaging Malabou
Moderator:

On Reading: Catherine Malabou

Randall Johnson
Future Blindness

William Robert, Syracuse University
Plasticity in Contemporary Islamic Subject

John Tibdeau, University of Colorado, Boulder

Panel C: Kierkegaard on God, Faith, and the Eschatological
Moderator:

The Broken Binary & Interstitial God: Finding Faith in the Margin of the Text

Jensen Suther
Speculating about Kierkegaard’s God: (Pseudonymous) Authorship and Authority

Dave Mesing
The Humility of Faith as Eschatological Trust in the Unhoped For: Chretien and Kierkegaard

Mark Tazelaar, Dordt College

Panel D: Vattimo and Transformative Temporality
Moderator:

Continental Drift: Flaneuring with Vattimo

Mike Grimshaw, University of Canterbury
Alternative Futures: Secularizing Messianic Time from Benjamin to Dupoy Sophie Fuggle, King’s College, London
Time and Transformation: Beyond the Postmodern

David Newheiser, University of Chicago

Panel E: Bridging the Two Cultures: Scientific and Religious Paradigms
Moderator:

Posthuman Age: Intelligence Machinery as Immanent Becoming

Ting Guo, University of Edinburgh
Object Oriented Religion

Michael Ardoline, West Chester University
Resurrecting the Subject: Philosophy of Religion as Trauma

Tamsin Jones, Harvard Divinity School

5:30-7:00 Dinner

7:00-8:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Catherine Malabou
Moderator: Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas

The Future of Derrida

8:00-10:00 Reception

Friday

9:00-11:00 CONCURRENT SESSION 2

Panel A: Focus on Peter Rollins
Moderator:

The Cosmic Double-Cross: The Psycho-Christ Event

Creston Davis, Rollins University
Peter Rollins and the Deconstructed Church: How Pub Churches, Continental Philosophy, and Provocative Preaching is Shaping the Future of Emerging Christianity

Gerardo Marti, Davidson College

Respondent:
Peter Rollins

Panel B: Engaging Deleuze and Immanence
Moderator:

Deleuze’s Christology: Or, Deleuze, “Please Meet Irenaeus”

Francis Sanzaro, Syracuse University
Love and Time: Possibility of Immanent Enchantment in Augustine, Woolf, and Joyce

Jeffrey McMurry, Duquesne University
Divine Folds of Bifurcation: When Chaos and Tehom Fold into Each Other

An Yountae, Drew University

Panel C: Religious Politics and/or Political Religion
Moderator:

Of Religion & Politics: Refusing the Space-Between

Geraldine Finn, Carleton University
Complementary Learning for the Critique of Empire

Joseph Bartlett, Eden Theological Seminary
Radical Theology & the Dangerous Memory of Jesus

Cameron Freeman

Panel D: Liturgy, Futurity, and the Apocalypse

Moderator:

Overwhelming Abundance & Everyday Liturgical Practices: For a Less Excessive Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Christina Gschwandther, University of Scranton
The Future of ‘Theological’ Phenomenology is . . . Phenomenology and the Future

Neal DeRoo, Dordt College
Postmodern Apocalypse: Placing Levinas & Derrida in Line with Transcendental Methodology

Ronald Mercer, Oakland City University

Panel E: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Analytic and Continental Philosophies of Religion
Moderator:

Trying to Understand How Barbarian I Am: Challenging Moreland’s Invectives Against All Things Postmodern

Carlos Bovell, Institute for Christian Studies
Exposures & Acknowledgements: Philosophy of Religion the Day After Tomorrow

Tyler Roberts, Grinnell College
Continental Philosophy of Religion: A Future

J. Aaron Simmons, Hendrix College

11:15-1:15 CONCURRENT SESSION 3

Panel A: Focus on Caputo and Westphal
Moderated by Sharon Baker, Messiah College

Friends and Strangers/Poets and Rabbis: Negotiating a ‘Capuphalian’ Philosophy of Religion

B. Keith Putt, Samford University

Respondents:

John D. Caputo, Syracuse University

Merold Westphal, Fordham University

Panel B: Agamben and Ecstatic Speech: Reflections on The Irreparable and The Reject
Moderator:

I Speak in Tongues More Than All of You: Badiou and Agamben on Glossolalia Joseph Spencer, University of New Mexico
Religion, The Irreparable & Substitution in the Thought of Giorgio Agamben Chris Fox, Newman University
Prolegomenon to Thinking The Reject for the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

Irving Goh, Cornell University

Panel C: Constructing, Consuming, and Deconstructing
Moderator:

Reassembling the Sacred: Bruno Latour’s Philosophy of Religion

Michael Norton, Villanova University
Philosophy is What it Eats

Adam Miller, Collin College
Blessed, Precious Mistakes: Deconstruction, Evolution and the New Atheism Donovan Schaefer, Syracuse University

Panel D: Faith, Truth, and Primal Scenes
Moderator:

Philosophy’s Critical Spirituality: Three Primal Scenes

J. Heath Atchley, Five College Consortium
Truth, or The Futures of Philosophy of Religion

Nick Trakakis, Monash University
Auto-da-Fé

Nancy Billias, St. Joseph College

Panel E: Incarnation Within the Limits of the Maternal and the Aesthetic
Moderator:

Mother & Matrix: DeSilentio Delivers Derrida & Kristeva

Edward Mooney, Syracuse University
Beyond the Post-Secular: The Aesthetic Validity of Kant’s Religion

Eric Bugyis, Yale University
The Incarnate God: Merleau-Ponty’s Response to Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of a Dead God

Timothy Jassaume, Villanova University

1:15-2:45 Lunch

2:45-4:45 CONCURRENT SESSION 4

Panel A: Spectral Materialisms: Deconstruction, Speculative Realism and the Void: A

Panel Convened by the Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion (UK)

Nothing Lasts Forever: Desire, Finitude & the Vast Abrupt

Charlie Blake, Liverpool Hope University

“Eating Well” in Church: Towards an A/Theological Materialism

Katharine Moody, independent Scholar

The Persistence of the Trace: Interrogating the Gods of Speculative Realism Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University

Chair and Respondent:
Daniel Whistler, Liverpool University

Panel B: On Goodchild, Economy, and Ecology
Moderator:

Slippery Slopes, Common Grounds, and Uncharted Territories: A Nomadic Understanding of Religion and Ecology

Whitney Bauman, Florida International University

Theological Money and Monetized Philosophy: Uneasy Linkages and the Future of a Discourse

Devin Singh, Yale University
Crisis & Critique: A Commentary on Goodchild’s Capitalism & Religion

Daniel Whistler, University of Liverpool

Panel C: Revisioning Radical Theology
Moderator:

The Passing of Peace: The Ascension and the Death of God

Christopher Rodkey, Lebanon Valley College
An Unknown Voice for an Unknown God: Christos Yannaras and the Death of God

Mark Westmoreland, Villanova University
Counter-Currents: Theology & the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion Noëlle Vahanian, Lebanon Valley College

Panel D: Ethics and the Affirmation of Alterity
Moderator:

Ethics, Empathy, and the Divine: the one-for-the-other is the encounter with God

Karen Kolamo, Duquesne University
Faith Beyond Optimism: An Ancient Invocation for Postmodern Times

Sarah MacMillen, Duquesne University
What Will We Think About if We Think About Creation? A Synthesis of Kant, Arendt, Levinas, and Nancy

Mark Cauchi, York University

Panel E: Transreligious Transformations: Schelling, Secularism, and St. Paul Moderator:

Body, Breath & Spirit: On Schelling and Irigiray

Lenart Skof, University of Primorska
“Islamic” Secularity sans Secularism in a Democracy à-venir

Badredine Arfi, University of Florida
Taking Things out of Context: Down the Post-Colonial Rabbithole with Alain Badiou, St. Paul and Wendy Doniger

Brian Collins, North Carolina State University

5:00-6:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Philip Goodchild
Moderator: Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College

Topic: TBA

Saturday

9:00-11:00 CONCURRENT SESSION 5

Panel A: Focus on François Laruelle’s Future Christ
Moderator:

“We are, each-and-everyone, a Christ or Messiah”: The Generic and Non-Philosophy’s Secularity

Anthony Paul Smith, University of Nottingham
Laruelle, Diaspora and Non-Philosophy of Religion

Daniel Colucciello Barber, Marymount Manhattan College
Non-philosophy and Meaning-use Analysis: Explicating Laruelle with Brandom Rocco Gangle, Endicott College

Panel B: Reb Žižek on Justice and the End of Days
Moderator:

Between Justice and My Mother

Gavin Hyman, University of Lancaster
The Patient Political Gesture: Spacing Law, Liberalism & Talmud

Zachary Braiterman, Syracuse University
Ruses of the End Times: Žižek on the Apocalypse and Emancipatory Politics

Ian Pattenden

Panel C: Countersigning Derrida
Moderator:

Thinking God Otherwise: Sovereignty without Sovereignty

Jim Olthuis, Institute for Christian Studies
Dreaming the Monstrous Future of Continental Philosophy, or What Derrida Was Really Up to

Carl Raschke, University of Denver
Jacques Derrida on the Secular as Theologico-Political

Andrew Cassatella, University of Toronto

Panel D: Interdisciplinarity, Fantasy, and Critical Theory
Moderator:

Transformative Exercises: Foucault and the Discipline of Continental Philosophy of Religion

Wilson Dickinson, Syracuse University
Why Philosophy of Religion? On Interdisciplinarity and Indisciplinarity in the Study of Religion

Joseph Ballan, University of Chicago Divinity School
The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion: A Return to Fantasy

Zachary Simpson, University of Science/Arts of Oklahoma

Panel E: Poetics of Salvation: Telling Stories of Hope in the Desert
Moderated by John Burkey, Siena College

After Continental God-Talk: Richard Rorty’s Poetics of Romantic Polytheism and Social Salvation

Scott Holland, Bethany Theological Seminary
Philosophy, Theology and the Narrative of Hope

Geoffrey Dargan, Oxford University
Khora: Gift or Threat?

Jeffrey Hocking, Institute for Christian Studies

11:15-1:15 CONCURRENT SESSION 6

Panel A: Focus on The New Materialism
Moderator: Alan Jay Richard, Realistic Living

Necessity as Virtue: On Religious Materialism from Feuerbach to Žižek

Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College
Dying to be Free: Extinction and the Liberation of Praxis in Ray Brassier’s Nihil Unbound

Danny Finer, Syracuse University
Entropy

Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas

Panel B: Continental Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies
Moderator:

Spiritual Friendship & Inter-Religious Dialogue

Patricia Johnson, University of Dayton
Continental Philosophy of Religion & Religious Studies

Timothy Knepper, Drake University
The Harp is the Hunter’s Qur’an

Joseph Helweg, Florida State University

Panel C: Prophesying, Proclaiming, and Projecting: A Saturated Gaze at Marion
Moderator:

Jean-Luc Marion as Prophet: Fetishism of the “Future”…

Jason Alvis
How to Speak of God Speaking

Ian Rottenberg, Fordham University
A Feuerbachian Turn in Marion’s Phenomenology of Love

Rico Monge, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panel D: On Meillassoux and Hegel
Moderator:

The Future of God in Continental Philosophy of Religion: A Hegelian Perspective

Kirill Chepurin, State University of Moscow
Hegel’s God and Transcendence

Harris Bechtol, Loyola Marymount University
Descartes’ Revenge: Meillassoux

Joshua Ramey, Haverford College

Panel E: Faith in the Death of God as the Resurrection of Doubt
Moderator:

The Death of God as the Death of the World

Myroslav Hryshko, University of Ljubljana
Giving up God for Lent: Resurrecting the Death of God

G. Michael Zbaraschuk, Pacific Lutheran University
Faith in Doubt in the End

Robert Gall, West Liberty University

1:15-2:45 Lunch

2:45-3:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: John D. Caputo
Moderator: B. Keith Putt, Sanford University

God, Perhaps: The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

4:00-5:30 CONCLUDING ROUNDTABLE (Malabou, Goodchild, and Caputo)
Moderator: Richard Kearney, Boston College

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Jay Bakker’s Fall to Grace – Part I

February 28, 2011 by Bill Leave a Comment

Is it possible to emphasize grace too much?

Not according to Jay Bakker’s new book, Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, Self, and Society, which is certainly an attention-getter and worth a read for all different kinds of audiences. No doubt Bakker has two groups especially in mind though – those like him, for instance, who have at one time been totally burned by the judgmental, narrow-mindedness of fundamentalist evangelicalism, and those like me, on the other hand, who grew up in a church world where regarding homosexuality as anything other than inherently sinful would have been unimaginable and an abomination. In this short, simple, but profound read, I found much more to praise than to criticize – and I learned from it.

Bakker tells his story with great vulnerability. I won’t recall the details here, but it’s worth anyone’s time to get a quick bio by just by googling his name if you don’t know who this not-so-typical pastor is. Suffice it to say, as the book’s description does, if anyone had a reason to leave the faith, it was Jay Bakker. And leave the faith he did – for a little while anyway – until he discovered anew, over time, the freedom and beauty of God’s unconditional love for sinners. Whether in alcoholism, estrangement from a parent, or a broken marriage, the grace of Jesus Christ is sufficient for Jay and all of us, he says. Like the father in the prodigal son parable, God demonstrates “reckless generosity” with a love for us that is “complete, irrational, and unrelenting” (p. 26).

The following quote from Elbert Hubbert is cited at least twice, as it captures the spirit of Bakker’s message: “We are punished by our sins, not for them.” Nevertheless, from a theological standpoint, Bakker seems to espouse a fairly traditional theory of atonement – though he does warn against the dangers of overemphasizing penal substitution.

The juxtaposition he lays out between grace and the law is thoroughly Lutheran, and so much so that this might be one of the book’s few weaknesses (borderline antinomianism for you theologians, which Luther actually criticized). In fact, at one point Bakker comes dangerously close to flat out dismissing the logic of faith and works in the book of James, as did Luther himself who described it as “a right strawy epistle, having no true evangelical character.” In this respect, despite an otherwise valiant crusade for the acceptance of gays into the Christian community, along with a genuine depiction of God’s forgiveness for all, Bakker doesn’t do the Jewish faith, nor Christianity’s continuity with the Hebrew Bible for that matter, any favors along the way.

Indeed, Bakker insists that the law of Moses is turned upside down (p. 151), and wants to “reject all the rules and be guided instead by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit” (p. 154). This is probably an overreaction, however understandable it might be in light of Bakker’s own journey. Living in the freedom Bakker describes requires the nurturing of the law, and this is most enabled by grace (Calvin argues this, for example).

Of course Bakker does not ignore Jesus’ teachings or disregard the importance of good deeds – far from it, but the book is still focused much more on Paul’s letters than on the gospel narratives. But Bakker’s Paul is not the Paul of the Southern Baptists. For Bakker, it’s a “kingdom of God here and now” kind of Paul.

More to come on the rest of the book, and I’ll raise some further questions in the second part of the review!

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Brian McLaren: Naked Spirituality

February 27, 2011 by Bo Sanders 1 Comment

I went through a leadership program with a man who was a chaplain for the Georgia State Troopers. In the midst of his various and sorted stories of wild calls that Police have to respond to, from time to time somebody would show up in the story without any cloths on. My Trooper friend would stop at this point in the story and introduce some descriptor of the nakedness – “naked as the day his mamma had ‘im” – or something similar.

Sometimes the distinction would be made between “naked” and “nekid” – this would always be illuminated and explained if there was a new person in the room, especially if we were not from the South.

“Naked” simply means that you don’t have any cloths on, whereas “nekid” means you don’t have any clothes on and your up to something!

According to my Trooper friend, being naked isn’t necessarily a problem, being nekid is when you get yourself into trouble.

Brian McLaren’s new book is entitled Naked Spirituality: a life with God in 12 simple words. The title recalls Richard Rohr’s The Naked Now which is itself a nod to St. Francis and the three legendary scenes in his life where he ends up without any clothes on (a theme that McLaren fleshes out in the preface).

This book, however, is not about anything so dramatic as public nudity. It is, in fact, quite the opposite – it is about the lasting, life-long, loving presence of God and the practices that engage it. McLaren is very accessible with his usual clarity in writing and trademark vulnerability in his storytelling.

Without nakedness, for example, you can’t go under the bright lights of surgery. And without nakedness you can’t enter into the candlelight of intimacy… as a result, it must be a vulnerable book, tender in tone, gentle in touch. You won’t find much in the way of aggressive arguments here, but rather shy experience daring to step into the light.

Naked Spirituality comes out on March 15. You can pre-order here at Amazon. McLaren is also counting down to the release on his website by releasing a quote from the book every day.

I am going to blog my way through the book in 3 acts over the next two weeks.

Part 1 will look at how McLaren examines the difference between spiritual experience and spiritual experiences. Part 2 will look at the 12 words of a ‘Life with God’. Part 3 will be about the cycles and season of life and faith.

I don’t know if my Trooper friend would call this “naked” or “nekid” but I am just-over halfway through the book and McLaren is definitely up to something.

Filed Under: books, engaging, thinking Tagged With: books, Brian McLaren, Christianity, Richard Rohr, spirituality, St. Francis

Big Tent Sexuality with Brian Ammons & Richard Rohr

February 25, 2011 by Tripp Fuller 2 Comments

At the first two Big Tent Christianity events Brian Ammons became the attendee favorite! On top of being a Duke professor, progressive Baptist church planter, blogger, and tweeter, Brian is a wonderful friend I am pumped to play a part in getting his voice out and about. Here Brian drops a guide to a Big Tent Sexuality that is post-gay. (Judith Butler would have been very pleased with this pitching of the sexual Big Tent.) After he gets crazy awesome Richard Rohr follows it up with a contribution to the conversation with a little post-Flesh VS Spirit binary.

Ohh I got one more Brian Ammons surprise for you soon….. a chapter that was banned from appearing in the Baptimergent book which did include my very straight chapter.

Filed Under: baptist, conversations, engaging, pomo, post-something Tagged With: big tent christainity, brian ammons, Richard Rohr, sexuality

Marcus Borg from Big Tent Christianity….God, Evolution, the Bible, & etc

February 23, 2011 by Tripp Fuller 2 Comments

Here’s two clips of Marcus Borg from Big Tent Christianity. These are actually him joining in a session on Evolution with Rachel Evans & Philip Clayton. Enjoy!

Filed Under: bible stuff, engaging, science

Christ and Culture or Christ and Empire?

February 21, 2011 by Bill 2 Comments

Being in a class on the ethics of globalization this semester has highlighted an important question for me: In the U.S. context, what does Church have to do with Empire? What are the consequences of failing to ask this question? Provided Christ is described as the head of the Church in Ephesians, that could be a helpful starting point.

So related to this, I’ve been reading Joerg Rieger’s book Christ and Empire, and in the preface he makes an interesting differentiation between what he, Rieger, is concerned about, and what Richard Niebuhr was discussing in his classic work, Christ and Culture, which was published about 60 years ago. According to Rieger, Niebuhr assumes that culture is the overarching term that incorporates other specific developments in the world. In other words, Niebuhr doesn’t address the central role of power.

Now to be fair, Rieger is obviously not the first person to bring up the topic of empire. Great contemporary thinkers interviewed right here on Homebrewed like John Dominic Crossan and Walter Brueggemann, or the Jewish liberation theologian Marc Ellis, are good examples of many others who write about it.

And of course Niebuhr was writing with a different aim, so Rieger’s point is not to discredit Niebuhr, but rather to stress that the full impact of Jesus’ ministry surely cannot be grasped without paying serious attention to the Roman context and Jesus’ politically subversive actions therein – actions that were not merely incidental for achieving the greater purpose of his crucifixion, as might often be assumed, but actions that some have argued are the greater purpose for which the crucifixion itself was merely incidental![i]

But one doesn’t have to live in the wake of postcolonial theory and feminist theologies to grasp the importance of politics for faith and discipleship. Perhaps no one in recent history demonstrated this better than Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who willingly assumed leadership of an underground seminary and a politically resistant Christian community in hostile Nazi Germany – instead of remaining in the safety of the U.S. where he was offered the chance to use his gifts as a scholar and teacher.

For those of us who are counted among the “privileged” in some way or another, we are challenged by stories and witnesses like this to reflect on and listen to how God might be asking for fiercer protest and bolder kenotic living. And as Rieger warns, we must not be deceived when the “Empire displays strong tendencies to domesticate Christ and anything else that poses a challenge to its powers.”[iii] Whether these powers are expressed in terms of global financial capital, cheap labor, “free” trade or militarism, empire today is subtle but not less real. Under its shadow, can there really be a “neutral” position? It seems Jesus really forces us to count the cost of this “peace and security.”

On a more pragmatic level, and to get back to the first question about church, how would the church look, think, spend money, and worship differently if this question was brought up more often? For anyone interested, I’ve also written some about this lately on a blog post here and on the Relevant Magazine Church Blog.

[i] Joanne Marie Terrell, Power in the Blood? The Cross in the African American Experience (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2005), 142.

[ii] Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, Second Printing. (Harper & Row, 1954), 13.

[iii] Joerg Rieger, Christ & Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2007), 3.

Filed Under: books, politics, thinking

Reframing Sexuality

February 21, 2011 by Tripp Fuller 5 Comments

Brian Ammons is a Duke professor, progressive Baptist church planter, blogger, tweeter, and Big Tent Christianity veteran (as in he was at both!). This is one of his talks from Big Tent on reframing sexuality. Soon you will see him and Richard Rohr talking it up too!!!

Filed Under: engaging Tagged With: Big Tent Christianity, brian ammons, homosexuality, sexuality

Reframing Jesus with Brian McLaren

February 20, 2011 by Tripp Fuller 2 Comments

Here’s Brian McLaren from Big Tent Christianity. Much of what he presents here about ‘reframing Jesus’ can also be found in his book ‘A New Kind Of Christianity.’

Filed Under: engaging Tagged With: Big Tent Christianity, Brian McLaren, jesus

Joseph Bracken’s Process Christology: Homebrewed Christianity 90

February 20, 2011 by Tripp Fuller 5 Comments

Joseph Bracken returns to the Homebrewed Christianity as part of our Christology series and brings a Process Spirit Christology. He is a retired professor of theology from Xavier University and author of many books on philosophical theology. Bracken takes the rich heritage of Catholic thought and combines it with his interest in Process philosophy and the German Idealist tradition. In this episode we discuss how his neo-Whiteheadian philosophy helps him give an account of Jesus Christ. The end of the podcast is really cool where he interprets passages with his philosophy. Enjoy!

I heart Joe Bracken!

Here’s Bracken’s last visit to the podcast where he discussed the Trinity.

Want more Jesus? Check out the previous Christology podcasts with Roger Haight, Elizabeth Johnson, and Doug Ottati.

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Are you a Bellian or Piperian?

“The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” – The Conference

Jay Bakker’s Fall to Grace – Part I

Brian McLaren: Naked Spirituality

Big Tent Sexuality with Brian Ammons & Richard Rohr

Marcus Borg from Big Tent Christianity….God, Evolution, the Bible, & etc

Christ and Culture or Christ and Empire?

Reframing Sexuality

Reframing Jesus with Brian McLaren

Joseph Bracken’s Process Christology: Homebrewed Christianity 90

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