With the Holiday season over, I am busily studying for my qualifying exams again.  As of now, I’m reading through Luther’s Greater Catechism. It’s a good work, and I always appreciate the vitriol with which Luther approaches any subject.  But there’s a section in this work that I, strangely, found especially refreshing.
First things first, the [...]

A system of dogmas may be the ark within which the Church floats safely down the flood-tide of history.  But the Church will perish unless it opens its window and lets out the dove to search for an olive branch.  Sometimes even it will do well to disembark on Mount Ararat and build a [...]

In a few weeks I will be getting to interview one of the world’s greatest theologians, Jurgen Moltmann.  One of his major contributions to Protestant theology is the development of his doctrine of the Holy Spirit.  In particular I have been most influenced by his appropriation of the objective indwelling of the Holy Spirit in [...]

Today I cooked a bunch of food.  I made homemade salsa, set up the slow cooker for dinner tomorrow with friends, and made a poppy seed chicken casserole recipe (shared by a friend).  All the while I was listening to some Nietzsche on my IPod, trying to assure that more than my belly grew [...]

I am busy reading some Jurgen Moltmann for the upcoming theological conversation in a couple weeks and thought I would share a bit along the way.  Feel free to let me know your thoughts and questions so I can use them when I have a little dialogue with Moltmann.  In particular I am interested [...]

One of my favorite books on postmodern theology is “God and Religion in the Postmodern World” by David Ray Griffin.  I should really reread it again and see how it would resonate with me now, but it was the first theology book that helped me the nature of constructive theology in a postmodern context.  If [...]

To listen to the Parables of  Jesus, it seems to me, is to let one’s imagination be opened to the new possibilities disclosed by the extravagance of these short dramas. If we look at the Parables as at a word at rest first to our imagination rather than our will, we shall not be tempted [...]

I found this gem of a quote from Ken Wilber on his problem with pluralistic relativism. It is sure to get a rise out of you. Tell me what kind.
Wilber describes how critical theory (the variety of postmodern deconstructive practices) can result in pluralistic relativism; “it claimed that all truth is culturally situated [...]

There is, however, in the Galilean origin of Christianity yet another suggestion which does not fit very well with any of the three main strands of thought. It does not emphasize the ruling Caesar, or the ruthless moralist, or the unmoved mover. It dwells upon the tender elements in the world, which slowly and in [...]

In “Religion in the Making” Whitehead defines Religion as “world-loyalty.” There is a good deal more in the book to discuss at a later date (like after I get a new copy of it because all the pages fell out today!), but there is something important here.
Why?
One could assume that Religion is, or at [...]