The last entry on Everyday Theology is from chapter 11 “Putting It into Practice: Weddings for Everyday Theologians.” As Vanhoozer states in his editorial introduction to the chapter, “The case study is a practical counterpart to the opening essay on methodology…This case study focuses on how to apply the methodology and take steps towards becoming [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Everyday Theology (6): Concluding Case study
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized on March 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Everyday Theology (5) » Interpreting Cultural Cadences
Posted in Book Reviews, Culture, cultural exegesis on March 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I had low expectations for chapter seven of Everyday Theology (“The Business of Busyness: Or, What Should we Make of Martha?”) but was pleasantly surprised.
Thus far, we focused on cultural texts which present themselves in a relatively plain manner. There they are for all to see, or read. The far more difficult “texts” to recognize [...]
Jesus’ resurrection & the “putting-to-right of all things” » NT Wright’s Easter Sermon
Posted in Culture, Current Events, NT Wright, Politics, cultural exegesis on March 24, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My family and I traveled to England with some friends to celebrate Easter at Durham Cathedral. It was in every respect a delightful time and not least of which because of NT Wright’s sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Easter morning, “The Uncomfortable Truth of Easter.”
The following remarks from Bishop Wright’s sermon are directed specifically [...]
Paul Fiddes on Participation in God
Posted in Athanasius, Christology, Inquiring Honestly, Theology, Trinity on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When describing the nature of salvation and the Christian life, the conceptual options are many. As of late, one of the more popular has been “participation” (due, in part, to renewed interest among Protestants in Patristic voices such as Irenaeus, St. Athanasius, Gregory Nazianzen, Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory Palamas).
Consider, for example, how Paul Fiddes [...]
Everyday Theology (4): Swords, Sandals, and Saviors
Posted in Book Reviews, Culture, Kevin Vanhoozer, cultural exegesis on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In his attempt to read the movie Gladiator as a cultural text (chapter 6 in Everyday Theology), Michael Sleasman makes the point that,
“Film has become the new text by which many around the globe now pose the crucial questions about life.”
Considering that nearly every youth pastor in the country obsessively quoted The Matrix when it [...]
Everyday Theology (3) » Reading Church Architecture
Posted in Book Reviews, Church, Theology, cultural exegesis on March 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
What might it look like to read and interpret church architecture theologically?
In “Between City and Steeple” (Chapter 5 of Everyday Theology) Premkumar Williams invites us to pay attention, or read, the messages communicated by our church’s architecture, to engage architecture as a “cultural text” laden with messages.
Buildings introduce themselves by their sheer physical presence. [...]
“God for the ungodly!”
Posted in Atonement, Eberhard Jungel, Theology on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The message about the cross announces the death of Jesus Christ as the decisive event for the life and death of human beings and the world in which they live. In this message there is to be found a focusing on the proclamation so that it is hard to imagine it being more focused or [...]
Recent studies on Pannenberg » 5 short reviews
Posted in Book Reviews, Pannenberg on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am often asked, “What should I read on Pannenberg’s theology?” Toward making some gestures in that direction, here are five short reviews of recent studies in English.
Iain Taylor, Pannenberg on the Triune God (T&T Clark, 2007), 225 pp., $130.00.
If you owned just one book on Pannenberg’s three volume Systematic Theology (ST), Iain Taylor’s Pannenberg on [...]
Reactions » Rembrandt, “Return of the Prodigal Son”
Posted in Art, Reactions on March 7, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), “Return of the Prodigal Son” 1666, Oil on Canvas
Reactions?
Old Testament Theology » Israel’s Gospel & Israel’s Faith
Posted in Book Reviews, Old Testament on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A guest review by Benjamin Foreman
Goldingay, John. Old Testament Theology: Israel’s Gospel. Vol. 1 (IVP, 2003), hb, 940 pp., $33.00
Goldingay, John. Old Testament Theology: Israel’s Faith. Vol. 2 (IVP, 2006), hb, 891 pp., $30.00
The title “Old Testament Theology” is somewhat enigmatic because defining exactly what is the task of Old Testament theology and how best [...]
Everyday Theology (2)
Posted in Book Reviews, Culture, Kevin Vanhoozer, cultural exegesis, tagged Everyday Theology, Culture, Kevin Vanhoozer, cultural exegesis on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Gospel According to Safeway: The Checkout Line and the Good Life
This is the first chapter that takes Vanhoozer’s method and applies it to a cultural “text,” that text being the checkout line at a grocery store. The authors of this chapter, while reflecting on the realities of the checkout line pose rhetorically:
“Have we entered [...]
Kevin Vanhoozer responds to my implementation query
Posted in Church, Culture, Kevin Vanhoozer, Theology, cultural exegesis on March 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Kevin Vanhoozer was kind enough to respond to my query regarding the implementation of his vision in actual faith communities (see the previous post for his proposal). Here is my query followed by his response:
What would it look like for a faith community who grasped the importance of cultural exegesis to cultivate these abilities in its [...]
