Posted in Disability on June 30, 2009 | 12 Comments »
My family and I recently served at a camp for people with mental and physical disabilities and their families. Although I have been reflecting on ministry to the disabled for some time, this experience pushed me to bring some thoughts together in the following 10 theses:
The church’s ministry to the disabled must disavow itself of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In this chapter, Vanhoozer continues his look at Scripture by working through Barth and Wolterstorff, merging the “best” of each to “set forth an evangelical, gospel-centered account of the Trinity and Scripture” (51). Initially, Vanhoozer addresses issues related to God and language, claiming that “God both creates and covenants by speaking” (51). Language functions to [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have begun reading IVP’s new release of the 2008 Wheaton Theology Conference called Trinitarian Theology for the Church: Scripture, Community, Worship edited by Treier and Lauber. I want to work through several specific chapters, the first of which (actually two chapters) is worth the price of the book. Instead of having one chapter significantly longer [...]
Posted in Jonathan Edwards, Spiritual Formation on June 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In light of our recent post on spiritual formation and the seminary, I thought I would share a bit about my recent teaching experience. I have been off of the blog for a little while now as I teach a spiritual formation class at Talbot School of Theology on “Jonathan Edwards’ Spiritual Theology.” I have [...]
Posted in Education, Spiritual Formation, Theology on June 11, 2009 | 11 Comments »
This question is one of many raised by Edward Farley’s Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education (one I wish I would have read years ago!). Let me give you Farley’s assertion, then the argument that informs it:
[T]heological education has assumed that its unity and subject matter had no relation to the sapiential knowledge which [...]
Posted in Jonathan Edwards, Justification on June 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I, unfortunately, have not had the opportunity (as of yet) to read N.T. Wright’s new book on justification. I have had the opportunity to follow several blogs work through it, and I wanted to chime in on a certain point. I was reading Scot McKnight’s analysis of the volume recently (which has been incredibly helpful), [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Theology, Tradition on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This month marks the release of the first two installments of InterVarsity Press’s new series, Ancient Christian Doctrine, a companion both to the wonderful Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and to the Ancient Christian Texts. The first two provide relevant passages from patristic sources respective to their aims while the last offers fresh or first time translation of [...]
Posted in Theology on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sapiential truth [i.e. "engaged knowledge that emotionally connects the knower to the known" p. 4] is unintelligible to the modern secularized construal of truth. Modern epistemology not only fragmented truth itself, privileging correct information over beauty and goodness, it relocated truth in facts and ideas. The search for truth in the modern scientific sense is [...]
