‘No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God’ [1 Cor 2.11]. Now God’s Spirit, who reveals God, makes known to us Christ, his Word, his living Utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of himself. The Spirit who ‘has spoken through the prophets’ [quoting the Nicene Creed] makes us hear the [...]
Archive for May, 2009
The Self-Effacement of the Spirit and the World’s Spiritual Ignorance: A Reading for Pentecost
Posted in Pneumatology on May 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Torture and Paul
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My friend Henry, a former Ph.D student in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen, published an article on St. Paul and Torture (click to read) at Religion Dispatches.
What are your thoughts? My initial thought was Paul’s comment at the end of Galatians where he talks about the real brand marks of the Christian being [...]
“Practical” Theology?
Posted in Church, Education, Practical Theology, Theology on May 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I have been talking with one of my new colleagues at Huntington about the nature and tasks of “Practical Theology” and its relationship with other theological subdisciplines (systematic, biblical, historical, etc.). She teaches in the department of Ministry and Missions and wonders if the theological work she does there is best characterized as “practical theology”. [...]
Hart on the god of Choice and the Culture of Abortion
Posted in Culture, David Bentley Hart on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From David Bentley Hart:
…it would be a wistful and culpable blindness for us to refuse to recognize how culturally arid and spiritually impoverished our society has become – which any unprejudiced survey of the artifacts of popular culture will effortlessly confirm. How, after all, should Christians regard the present age when, in America alone, more [...]
Christian Wisdom and L’Arche
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is my last post looking at David Ford’s book Christian Wisdom. Of the many interesting features of this volume, I was particularly intrigued by the subject of chapter 10, entitled: “An Interpersonal Wisdom: L’Arche, Learning disability and the Gospel of John.” For those of you who don’t know, L’Arche is, to borrow Ford’s explanation, [...]
Theological Educator as… (Ruminations of a Novice, Pt. 1)
Posted in Education on May 13, 2009 | 26 Comments »
I am going to explore the vocation of theological educator in a series of posts. Although I have academic settings in mind, we could also imagine how these ruminations might be applicable to the vocation of pastor/priest, Sunday school teacher, and even parent. By way of disclaimer, the subject in question is Christian theology, and [...]
Christian Wisdom: Part 2
Posted in Book Reviews, Theology on May 12, 2009 | 14 Comments »
We pick back up with Ford’s discussion of wisdom by looking at the book of Job. Ford states, “The wisdom pedagogy of the book of Job is as far as possible away from ‘packaged’ answers. It is about the most fundamental questioning and searching, including radical and controversial interrogation of wisdom and its traditions; but [...]
Christian Wisdom
Posted in Book Reviews, Theology on May 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In the next couple of posts I am going to look at David Ford’s Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Ford offers a low-flying biblical/exegetical/theological account of wisdom as the overriding concept of Christian theology. The first thing that struck me about this book is Ford’s clear concern to [...]
Post-foundationalism
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2009 | 72 Comments »
I was going to do a full-fledged post on post-foundationalism, but before I do so, I wanted some feedback as to what people hear when that phrase is used. If you wouldn’t mind, let us know what you think of when someone uses the term “post-foundationalism.” Is it mainly a term denoting enlightenment values, and [...]
