Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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Monday Morning Reading
Jul 19th
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 [...]
The Return to a Primitive Christianity is Impossible.
Jul 10th
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, 93
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Phunny Filosophy
Mar 13th
While it’s no Theology Gone Funny, this tickled me a bit:
In some cultures, a young man could not marry until he had taken his first head. However, a young man in the United States who tried to impress his girlfriend’s family by displaying his collection of shrunken heads would be quickly locked up and labeled [...]
Radical Surgery Needed
Feb 11th
I need to get packing something fierce, so this is short and malformed.
In my view, postmodern philosophy[1] is primarily seeking out a better way of viewing reality and knowledge[2] than is found in modern philosophy.[3]
Is anything present in postmodernism that unifies it as a movement and isit is just a synonym for “deconstructive relativism,” as [...]
Thinking Out Loud
Jan 14th
As bad as Tornado Theology RT @jaredcwilson: RT @gposey: Really? Satan helped Haiti beat the French? Gargamel and Skeletor were too busy? #
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Readings from This Semester:
Dec 20th
Total Pages: 3834
Total Pages Read: 3047
Total Reading Percentage: 79%
I actually did most of my reading this semester. My TRP is hindered mostly by two source books which contain a great many more pages than were assigned. The only book that I really skimped on was Redeeming the Routines. I just did not have the time/gumption [...]
Foundationalism
Dec 8th
A few days ago, I posted a picture which I thought demonstrated the relationship between Modernism, Foundationalism, Fundamentalism, and Christianity. I’d like to clarify what I am talking about there, here. And critique it:
A rough approximation of how Modernism, Foundationalists, Fundamentalists, and Christianity relate to one another.
By Modernism, I mean the paradigm(s) of [...]
Too Much of a Good Thing :: The Character of Theology by Franke
Dec 5th
Standing firmly within the Reformed tradition, [1] John Franke, in The Character of Theology, sets out to make a case for postconservative theology. At a critical level, Franke is wildly successful in this endeavor. His work shines brightest when he discusses issues of epistemology,[2] which is a reoccurring theme throughout the work. Frank ultimately [...]
Wright on Moving Beyond the Words of Scripture
Jan 2nd
Posted by Henry Imler in Bible
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The Church can and must, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, develop words, concepts, discourse of all sorts, out beyond our narrow confines of exegesis.
That is what happened with Athanasius, holding out for the non-biblical term homoousion to express, against Arius, the radically biblical view of the divinity of Christ.
We cannot reduce the [...]