Uncategorized
Of Exiles and Educating in the Tradition
Having taught a number of years at an undergraduate institution within the evangelical world, I observed on…
Reconciled to the Spirit
As one would expect, Jenson’s brief sketch of a positive account of atonement (Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics,…
Agents of New Creation
There are, James Jordan has argues, three “problems” to solve in Genesis 1:1-2: Formlessness, emptiness, and darkness.…
Their Suspicious Circles—And Ours
If you want to know why liberals had so much political trouble in the 1980s, you could…
Lecture in Houston on Mideast Christians
For readers in the neighborhood, I’m delighted to say that I’ll be giving a lecture, “Religious Freedom…
Lex orandi, lex credendi
The first way to honor the Passion as a mysterion, Jenson argues, is liturgical (Theology as Revisionary…
Deliverdict
One of Douglas Campbell’s essays in Beyond Old and New Perspectives on Paul deals the dikaio– language of…
AdWorld Wide Web
The first thing that came on my computer screen when I clicked the link to look over…
The Costs of C-Sections
Cesarean sections have gotten a lot safer over the past century plus. And as they’ve gotten safer,…
Recognizing American Saints
Most attention-paying U.S. Catholics are aware of the beatification causes for Archbishop Fulton Sheen and Catholic Worker…
Children of Light and Children of Darkness
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Reinhold Niebuhr’s attempt to place the democratic experiment on more…
Victoria Beeching and Plato’s Third Form of Atheism
Victoria Beeching is a celebrity in the world of evangelical Christian music. The singer made big news…
Pope Francis on the Crisis in Iraq
In an airborne press conference on the way back from Korea yesterday, Pope Francis addressed the ongoing…
Errors of Atonement Theology
Jenson gives a concise summary of the weaknesses of traditional atonement theories (Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics, 128-30).…
God the Creator
One of the themes of Andrea Gabriel’s summary of Barth’s Doctrine of Creation is that, for Barth, the…
