Watching the movie Gone Baby Gone last night spurred my thinking about the complexities of pursuing peace and reconciliation in a world sick with violence. Gone Baby Gone is a brilliant and disturbing film that challenges its viewers to consider the possibility of a moral space between right and wrong.
One question worth pursuing might be [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Violence, Peace, and Judgment (& Gone Baby Gone)
Posted in Church, Forgiveness, Miroslav Volf, Peace, Theology, Violence, cultural exegesis on June 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Sung Theology: Hymns & the Formation of Faith
Posted in Christian Life, Church, Evangelicalism, Gospel, Lyrics, Theology, Wesley, Worship, cultural exegesis on June 20, 2008 | 11 Comments »
How do hymns display and express the theology of a particular Christian community or tradition? And how does this sung theology shape and form our faith (belief, affection, and action)?
For the sake of the discussion, let’s focus on evangelical hymns. In American Evangelical Christianity, Notre Dame historian, Mark Noll, attempts to probe the message of [...]
Celebrating Calvin’s 500th birthday
Posted in Calvin on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth (Quincentenary) will be celebrated around the world next year through a variety of conferences and symposiums. Calvin College in Grand Rapids Michigan (my alma mater) has provided a helpful listing of a great many of them.
One not listed there, “Rediscovering Calvin, Resources for Renewal Today”, will be held [...]
Probing Evangelicalism’s Revivalist Heritage
Posted in Evangelicalism on June 14, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Is Evangelicalism’s revivalist heritage its greatest asset or Achilles heal?
Yes I know. Questions like that don’t have simple answers, but bear with me for the sake of probing the issue a little. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses that attend Evangelicalism’s revivalist heritage was prompted by Douglas Sweeney’s definition of N. American Evangelicalism in The American Evangelical Story: A [...]
Truth as “Coherence” » Pannenberg on Science and Theology
Posted in Book Reviews, Pannenberg, Science, Theology on June 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Wolfhart Pannenberg, edited by Niels Henrik Gregersen. The Historicity of Nature: Essays on Science and Theology (West Conshohocken: Templeton Foundation Press, 2008), 242pp + xxiv, $23.96.
Wolfhart Pannenberg’s enduring engagement with the natural sciences, philosophy, and history has been theologically driven by his doctrine of God. Credible talk about God, he urges, has to be related [...]
On Pastoral Eschatology
Posted in Church, Eschatology on June 3, 2008 | 31 Comments »
I vividly remember the first funeral I officiated: A twenty-six year old engaged to be married whose parents were desperate to know his eternal whereabouts. “Was his childhood faith sufficient?” they asked. “Did his lifestyle in the intervening years represent a ‘falling away’ or lack of genuine faith? How do we know?”
In a recent post [...]
Reactions » Caravaggio, “The Calling of St. Matthew”
Posted in Art, Theology on June 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Caravaggio, “The Calling of St. Matthew”, 1599-1600, Oil on canvas
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