Keith Ward, who will be at Big Tent Christianity, has an amazing lecture on the so called ‘Clash of Civilizations’ between Islam and Christianity. Because I have heard enough ignorant and bigoted rhetoric coming out of Christians’ mouths I thought I would share this. Of course HBC Deacons would never say such things but your [...]
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 [...]
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.’ [...]
Very few would argue that Liberal Christians have the upper hand when it comes to religious merchandise. Those other Christians have the most sales in bumper stickers and T-shirts. There’s a lot of money in “putting a God-spin on popular secular ideas.” The formula is fairly simple for youth ministers in this group … take [...]
John Caputo is master of deconstruction, a philosopher smitten with its undoing, a theologian who confesses God’s weakness, an author who is actually fun to read and one of the most popular guests on the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast! Not only is John Caputo coming back on the podcast but he has been releasing a ton [...]
When John Caputo asks you to plug something…….YOU DO CFP: The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (Syracuse) Postmodernism, Culture and Religion 4 “The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” Syracuse University | April 7-9, 2011 Plenary Speakers: JOHN D. CAPUTO Watson Professor of Religion and Philosophy Syracuse University (http://religion.syr.edu/Caputo.html) PHILIP GOODCHILD Professor of Theology [...]
Liberal Christians get nervous when outing themselves as Christians. They choose their words carefully, since often it occurs at a dinner party with their spiritual-but-not-religious friends. With this crowd, the conversation can accelerate from sushi to spirituality in 5 seconds. That’s fast for a Liberal Christian. If you ask her whether she practices Buddhism or [...]
First, there was ‘Stuff White People Like.’ Then, ‘Stuff Christians Like.’ Soon, we at Homebrewed Christianity will bring you ‘Stuff Liberal Christians Like.’ I was just pitching the idea to Tripp about this new series and we thought of a ton of ideas for titles: from ‘Having token friends from other religions’ to ‘Reading Daily [...]
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 [...]
