Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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Guilty fabergé eggs
Jun 25th
I take it as a mark of godliness that my immediate Christian community is able to follow God’s command to be stewards of this Earth and we are beginning to be conscious of and find ways to evangelize without resorting to making asses out of ourselves and our Lord. And we do this while not merely inverting the fundamentalist/reformed paradigms. We still value just as much the seeking of Christ and faith in him for the acceptance of the forgiveness of sin. We still see the Bible as the only God-Stamped revelation. But, there is one thing we still lack…
Apocalyptic Asceticism – a Means to Resist
May 3rd
In this post, the nature of apocalypticsm in early Christianity is explored.
Marginalized groups are often apocalyptic;[1] they recognize that the present world is radically amiss and construct ways in which this can be fixed.[2] Often, there is a utopia that they look towards for a negation of the current woes.[3] Terms like apocalypticism, eschatology, protology, [...]
Some Malformed Thoughts on Edwards and True Religion
Apr 20th
In my Church history class I was asked to read A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards and to give some commentary on it. The below are my first thoughts when I read the text. Incidentally, I have just taught over the Descartes-Locke-Hume-Kant debate over the nature of the self during the Enlightenment period, [...]
Question of the Day: How much leeway should Seminary and Bible College Profs Get?
Apr 17th
Limits. Lines. Boundaries.
We need them. When they aren’t to our liking, we whine, scratch, demolish, prophesize. When they are to our liking, we defend, trumpet, repair, denounce.
The resignation of Walkte at RTS highlights the issue of theological boundaries within Christian Academic Institutions.
On the one hand, I think that Xian theologians and academics should be [...]
A Little Dirt is OK.
Apr 17th
This is a post written to myself as I look back on my words and deeds these last 15 years.
As I have moved from theological founationalism to a wounded wonderer and tried to reconstruct a better, more nimble theology, I have found myself utilizing the pithy polemic against my fellow Sisters and see my [...]
Notes on Terrorism
Apr 11th
Right now I am doing some research on terrorism and Islam for my Lived Religions class. I really am ignorant of the scholarship. I always start with the Said videos. Right now I am going through some journal articles on terrorism. Here are my current sources and notes:
Incomplete and Unsurveyed Bibliography:
Andriolo, Karin. “Murder by Suicide: [...]
On the Essence of Christianity
Apr 9th
These wise words can guide us from the depths of hubris up into the oceans of humility and finally into the active land of creatively morphing our faith forward:
Immersion in the literature of the 5th and 6th centuries has slowly eroded any lingering conviction that I had that throughout these centuries Christianity stood for [...]
On the Worth of Early Syriac Christian Theology
Apr 5th
I have chosen these Syriac thinkers for several reasons. First, from a historical perspective, it is important to note that the early Christian movement spread in two directions, to the Greek and Latin West and to the Syriac-speaking East.
It is a little known fact that until the rise of Islam in the seventh and [...]
Thecla – one of the most important women in Christianity
Mar 30th
Only three nights from Tarsus, in Isauria, is the martyr shrine of Saint Thecla. Since it was so close we were pleased to travel there… Around the holy church there is a tremendous number of cells for men and women… There are a great many cells on that hill, and in the middle a great [...]
Best Noncanonical Early Christian Readings? (Help Wanted)
Mar 28th
I am in the middle of writing the first week of Christianity for my online Living Religions class. I want the students to have a sampling of extra-canonical Christian literature. I am like a kid in a candy story, bursting from one text to the next, and not able to make a decision. All them [...]
Postmodern Christianity – now with Comics!
Mar 23rd
Among the things I like talking about are the following: postmodernity, post-conservative Christianity, ancient Christian popular history, and comics. This post creates a space for posting concerning comics.
To get us started, a lil diddy about Jack and Diane, ok, Wolverine’s musical tastes gettin’ dissed:
Scridb filter
Art
Mar 12th
When the specter of a permanent dwelling surfaces, new questions arise. Questions like
What do I want this space to look like?
What do I want this space to say?
Accordingly, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about art. More specifically, what art I would like to hang in my office. There are two pieces I [...]
Christian Charity in the 4th Century
Mar 11th
Julian the Apostate, apparently after he had fallen from a horse and injured his arm.
Here are some words from Julian the Apostate, my favorite Roman Emperor on Christian and Jewish charity. Julian hated Christians and sought to undermine their cultural advances. This quote comes from his justification to use temples as social justice distribution centers.
For [...]
Our Canon is the Protestant Canon.
Mar 9th
Someone asked me why I hold the Protestant Canon to be my Scripture and not the Apocrypha or the Quran. This is the best I can come up with, from my statement of faith.
We have no scriptural basis, no manuscript basis, and no scientific basis for this claim. It rests solely upon our faith in [...]
BW3 on Nooma
Mar 2nd
I know this is a year or so old and not many of you might care, but here is a link to BW3 appraising Rob Bell’s Nooma videos.
On the surface, some might be tempted to accuse Rob of serving up chicken soup for the soul, or pablum for the masses, or what passes for [...]
The Church and New Cultural Forms
Feb 22nd
“Part of the Christian calling is to appraise any new eth os that shapes the culture in which God calls believers to live as his people. One goal of this task is to equip the church to articulate and embody the gospel in the context of that culture.” [1]
Notes:
A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) [...]
Encasing the Unencasable.
Feb 16th
The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can’t be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.[1]
Notes:
Velvet Elvis (Rob Bell) – Highlight Loc. 390-92 [↩]Scridb [...]
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