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Emerging Church and Postmodernism


We are having some interesting conversation over at mereconversation about the emerging church and postmodernism. More specifically about how postmodernism impacts the church in today’s culture. Stop by and share your thoughts, what could be more postmodern than that… conversation.
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A New Blog


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Can our worldview handle extra-biblical terms?


The Nicene formula utilized a new term homoousion to express the relationship between the Son and the Father. Murray in his work, The Problem of God, points out that this was not a new development in theology; rather it was a new way to express the intentionality that had always been in the Scriptures. It […]

Imaging God… together?


Middleton & Walsh in their work The Transforming Vision demonstrate that redemptive history is the story of creation, fall, redemption and recreation. It is a holistic view that shows what God has been, is, and will be doing in his plan for the universe. Too quickly we as Christians jump to the find the remedy […]

Living Through Our Worldview


Everyone sees the world from some vantage point. We have the categories in which we think, the things we believe but cannot prove, and the things that our mind puts together that shape our view. No one can stand outside of reality and looks in on it. Sire appropriately uses the term ‘story’ to describe […]

What is a worldview?


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Worldviews


This semester at Winebrenner I am taking a worldview course with Dr. Sherman (here’s the books we’re using). I think examining worldviews can be a life altering thing since it forces us to think deeply about the world we live in and how we see it. Throughout the next couple months I’ll be putting up […]

Christian Ethics and Deitrich Bonhoeffer


At our summer Theological Summit at Winebrenner we had the special priviledge of having Christine Schliesser (professor at Tubingen University in Germany and author of the newly published, Schuld durch rechtes Tun? Verantwortliches Handeln nach Dietrich Bonhoeffer and ‘Everyone Who Acts Responsibly Becomes Guilty’ - The concept of Accepting Guilt in Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Reconstruction and […]

Next Semester’s Classes


Next semester (summer) is going to come faster than I think! Therefore, I’ve already purchased and received all the books from Amazon, and there were a lot! Here’s the classes I’ll be taking:
1. Special Topics in Ancient Christianity taught by Dr. Phil Harrold.
The books required for the class are as follows:

Introducing Early […]

More thoughts on How (Not) to Speak of God by Peter Rollins


This is a continuation of my first post on this book here.
Peter Rollins has done a fine job of writing this book. The first part of his book neatly builds an argument one chapter on top of another. He does a good job of stating his points and defends against potential attacks to his line […]

Peter Rollins - How (Not) to Speak of God


Well, I am not sure if you are aware of Peter Rollins or not, but if you are not, my guess is that at some point in the near future you will be. He is the founder of Ikon, an organization in Northern Ireland. His book How (Not) to Speak of God, is fairly controversial. […]

Postmodernity


Cliche? Buzzword? Reality?
What is this postmodernity? Brian Mclaren declares that there are three levels of postmodernity out there and this can lead to confusion. He accuses some Christians, including Chuck Colsen, of misunderstanding true postmodernity and equating it with the understanding that there is no truth, only competing truths. McLaren labels this as the 1st […]