Thomas Aquinas – Theologian of the Christian Life

When Kyle and I began working together on a theology of the Christian life project, Nicholas Healy’s edition to Ashgate’s Great Theologians series shot to the top of my list: Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life (2003; many thanks to Ashgate for a review copy).  I was not disappointed.
Healy’s Thomas Aquinas is a concise and highly accessible introduction [...]

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Under the Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas from everyone here at Theology Forum!

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Selfishness, Happiness and Recollection

I wish to pull together strange bedfellows for this post, Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Merton. Both Merton and Edwards reflected upon selfishness and happiness, and so I thought it would be interesting to meditate upon where they overlap.
Edwards, in his typical arcane fashion, states,
In some sense, the most benevolent, generous person in the world seeks [...]

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The Lord’s Supper: Pentecostal View

As I noted in my previous entry, I wanted to spend some time highlighting the distinctives of a Pentecostal view of the Lord’s Supper. Gordon T. Smith, the editor of the volume, notes that the reason for adding this view was to do diligence to the explosion of growth in the Pentecostal movement globally (p. [...]

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The Lord’s Supper: Book Review

I received a book for review a couple of weeks ago for Theology Forum that I was particularly interested in highlighting here. I have been on a sacrament kick as of late. I, as many of you no doubt, come from what feels like a traditionless-tradition that “inherited” a vague and ambivalent viewpoint of the [...]

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New James Commentary from Blomberg & Kamell

My friend Mariam Kamell just published a co-authored commentary on James with Craig Blomberg in Zondervan’s new Exegetical Commentary series (see product detail here). Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament attempts to examine the biblical text in its original environment through attending to grammatical details, literary [...]

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Theology Forum Fieldtrip

Many of you might assume that the Theology Forum “crew” are all business all the time. So, in order to remedy that (if not just a little), we have decided to post our recent Theology Forum Fieldtrip. This is the “softer side” of Theology Forum if you will.
So, what was it that dragged us out [...]

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Orthodox and Modern: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth

Bruce L. McCormack, Orthodox and Modern: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth (Baker Academic, 2008), 320 pp; £15.00/ $32.00 [Review copy courtesy of Baker Academic]
It is easy to forget just how good a reader of nineteenth-century theology Bruce McCormack really is. Given the stature and boldness of his proposal regarding Jesus Christ as the [...]

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