Been reading Christian Theology: An Introduction by Alister McGrath. In the chapter on “The Modern Period” McGrath surveys and summarizes a grocery list of “major theological movements” during the “Modern” period.
Romanticism, Marxism, Liberal Protestantism, Modernism (found this one hard to understand), Neo-Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Feminism, Postmodernism, Liberation Theology, Black Theology, Postliberalism, Evangelicalism, Pentecostal [...]
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The need for theological identity
Has “women in ministry” become central dogma?
I could get in serious trouble for this.
Let me begin by reminding people that:
I married my campus minister (and she hates that I keep saying that – sounds like she was some sort of stalker or predator who seduced one of her students when in fact I chased her okay?)
Who received her seminary degree years [...]
God and politics for me – but not for thee
Losing respect for people with whom I used to identify is painful. And I am beginning to despair for the future of rationality and honesty in our nation.
Where does one even begin?
I made the mistake of following a link to EthicsDaily.Com which is the website of the Baptist Center for Ethics. Two or three years [...]
Church as visible concrete reality versus(?) overly-realized eschatology
What and where is the Church? Is there only an ideal Church off somewhere/somewhen in heaven? Or can we see and experience and participate in the Church here and now?
Metropolitan Ware writes:
The Church is accomplished on earth without losing its essential characteristics. There is not only an ideal Church that is invisible and in heaven. [...]
Vladimir Lossky and the practicality of “orthodox” theology
The “Introduction” to The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church by Vladimir Lossky was an important turning point in my growing awareness of the importance of sound theology in the Christian life and in the Christian church. This is not to say we must become theological fundamentalists who have every question exhaustively resolved and/or permit [...]
In Houston for Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly
Most years I do not attend. But this year we came for two primary reasons:
I have been asked to participate in a panel on ministry with internationals and
A chance to visit a member of the congregation who has been here for 6 months undergoing treatment at M. D. Anderson and a third reason which is [...]
Outside Los Angeles for ACMI 2009
My first time in California.
ACMI is Association of Christians Ministering with Internationals – an umbrella network/organization for those who minister among internationals. (And by internationals they tend to mean not refugees and not even immigrants so much as visiting academics – students scholars and so on. This is an important clarification.)
At Azusa Pacific University in [...]
Marketing versus(?) evangelism (or) Centripetal ecclesiology
Outreach.
Churches agonize about it. Well at least this one does. But listen and observe carefully how people talk about it and attempt to engage in it.
Spend thousands of dollars on slick postcards to the community. “There’s a place for you here!” Where we are. Little map. Schedule of worship and other activities. Colorful picture. Actually [...]
“Why do Christians hate Obama?” (or) How does one answer a broken question?
Note (May 07, 2009): I marked this post as “private” after I wrote it. Was not comfortable with the idea of writing a post responding rather publicly (the Internet is very public) to something a congregant wrote on facebook (which is semi-public). But after a few weeks – sure.
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A member of the congregation I serve [...]
The folly of ritual tourism (or) Christian(s doing) “seders”
AKMA offers a fascinating and (as always) deeply thoughtful post expressing discomfort with “the increasing frequency with which Christians set up and proceed to ‘enact’ seders“. He offers four specific “answers” on the issue. In his second answer where he raises the question of why some Christians imitate a seder he comments:
They adhere to a [...]
