Thoughts on Decolonizing Biblical Studies: A View from the Margins by Fernando Segovia. This book is pretty sweet. Segovia’s reflection on twentieth century biblical criticism focuses on the shift from seeing the text as a means, an entry point to reach back to the historical locus from which the text originated, and the text as [...]
Today is Paul Tillich‘s birthday. In honor I thought I would share a bit of a conversation he had with students that is recorded in a book titled ‘Ultimate Concern.’ You can read the entire book for free @ religion-online! Professor: What of other basic differences between Christianity and, say, Buddhism? Buddha and Christ as [...]
Big Tent Christianity is not about BIG numbers. In fact, it is interested neither in big numbers nor becoming the new Christendom Christianity. SO here’s a little syncroblog feed back from Soren Kierkegaard. He is one of the most ingenious authors the world has ever known and this parable is from his ‘Attack Upon Christendom.’ [...]
Jurgen Moltmann’s newest book, Sun of Righteousness Arise!, he spends six chapters examining the resurrection and its role in Christian theology. His general observation is this, in light of the numerous crises that the world faces (ex. ecological crisis, nuclear threat) the human species has come to see itself as mortal. This calls the church [...]
God only knows (and bemoans) how crappy the Church can be. A brief look at the history of the Church and you can easily make a big list of reasons one group of Christians think another group is wrong enough to go to Hell and a slightly smaller list of times the truth holders helped [...]
Tom Oord is one of my favorite philosophical theologians working today. On top of that he is a publishing machine! I am currently reading one of his newest books ‘The Nature of Love: a Theology‘ and I am sure it will get more blog time soon but for now I just wanted to share this [...]
There have been a bunch of theological and philosophical responses to Richard Dawkins and company’s New Atheism. Last year we had Eric Reitan on the Podcast to discuss his book ‘Is God a Delusion?’ Eastern Orthodox Theologian David Bentley Hart goes for the jugular with Nietzsche and Nicaea in his work ‘Atheist Delusions: The Christian [...]
‘Keep Theology Weird!’ In Jurgen Moltmann’s newest book, Sun of Righteousness, Arise!, he begins by setting a unique goal for himself…’to bring out what is specific, strange, and special about the Christian faith.‘ For Moltmann, ‘what is distinctively Christian is the confession of Christ and belief in his resurrection.’ Despite the tendencies since the Enlightenment [...]
‘Reboot: refreshing your faith in a High-Tech world‘ is Peggy Kendall’s newest book on technology, communication, and faith. In the past she has published on the relationship of technology and youth culture but this book opens up to the conversation to adults. I decided to try video blogging my review so we will see if [...]
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