Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
About
Greetings! My name is Henry Imler and this is my blog (as I am sure you have guessed). Modernism is dead and dying. The Church is just now getting the memo. This blog is an exploration of what we need to do next.
A little bit about myself? My wife is Meredith Imler and my lil boy is Reed and they are the loves of my life. I am a dedicated Christian Canonist who is exploring how to be a biblically faithful and post-conservative follower of Christ at Asbury Seminary (twitter) where I am working towards a Master of Arts in Theology.
I plan on getting my PhD from there in the field of Biblical Studies. I recently graduated from the University of Missouri with a Master of Arts in Religious Studies (the study of how people are religious, not of how to be religious, which is what I am studying now). My focus was in several areas: Early Christianity (non-patristic), Greco-Roman Religion, and Women in Religion. My thesis attempted to unearth the lives of the people who wrote and consumed the Acts of Thomas in the Eastern edge of the Roman Empire. You can read Husbands Scorned; Fathers Ignored: A Social Analysis of the Acts of Thomas if you like, but it will take you a while (it certainly took me a while to write it!).
You can find me on a couple of other places on the web:
- Hundie Jo dot Com (personal site)
- Theology for the Masses (near defunct theology blog)
- Twitter – Hundiejo
- Twitter – The Pomo Xian
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Monday Morning Reading
about 1 week ago - No comments
Here are a few interesting reads from this past week. There’s something for everyone.*
Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs | Atomic Robo vs. the X-Men in… “The Time Topic” – Self explanatory, meaning, if you don’t get it by the link title, you aren’t into comics or time travel and you should just go ahead and skip it.
On [...]
Paul and Original Sin
about 2 weeks ago - 5 comments
Scott asked me the other day what I thought about original sin. I told him that I did not buy into the Calvinist view of Original Sin, but that I knew that Wesleyan theology held to Original Sin but that we are still able to accept the gift of Salvation with free will. Not a very good answer, I know, but I was being honest. I think one view is foolish and unfounded, I know of another view which seems more palpable, but in the end, I have sinned and OS doesn’t really matter to me. It’s worth noting that I come from, though am no longer a part of, a denomination that has historically denied the doctrine.
But, as I was doing some fact-checking on McLaren’s sections on Romans, I came across this passage on Paul and Original Sin…
The Return to a Primitive Christianity is Impossible.
about 2 weeks ago - 2 comments
Having rejected the aid of the community of interpreters throughout the history of Christendom, we have not succeeded in returning to the primitive gospel; we have simply managed to plunge ourselves back to the biases of our own individual situations.
- Lints, Fabric of Theology, 93Scridb filter
An artist’s unintentional discussion of free will and sovereignty.
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From Some Comic from Some Year in Something. (I forget, clipped the pic a while ago) Scridb filter
I follow Bell, I follow Driscoll, I follow Piper
about 1 month ago - 2 comments
I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. For some members of Chloe’s household have told me about your quarrels, my dear [...]
Religion is to be defended…
about 1 month ago - 2 comments
Religion is to be defended – not by putting to death – but by dying. Not by cruelty, but by patient endurance. Not by guilt, but by good faith. For the former belongs to evil, but the latter to good…
For if you wish to defend religion by bloodshed, tortures, and guilt, it will be [...]
A Church Father on TULIP
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“The liberty of believing or not believing is placed in free choice. In Deuteronomy, it says, ‘Look! I have set before your face life and death, good and evil. Choose for yourself life, that you may live.’”
- Cyprian, 250 AD, 5.547Scridb filter
The Boast of the Lord of the Host
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Has any other god dared to take a nation for himself out of another nation by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, a strong hand, a powerful arm, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your eyes.
Deu 4:34 NLT
Israel, you just got [...]
The Problem of the Subaltern
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In religious studies, especially in post-colonial religious studies, we often talk about the Subaltern. The term was coined by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her article "Can the Subaltern Speak?"[1] In the article, she suggests that the oppressed can never truly be heard.
When you think you hear them, their message, their voice, their humanity, has [...]
