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Jacob: Who Counts as Christian?: Over at Rod Dreher’s Beliefnet.com blog, he’s wondering were the line between Christian and non-Christian sits [http://blog.beliefnet.com/roddreher/2010/01/atheist-pwns-liberal-christian.... (28/01/2010 - 01:10 | 5 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: A Relational Christianity:   A while back I read Frank Viola and George Barna’s controversial-in-Christian-circles book, Pagan Christianity.  I thoroughly enjoyed the text.  Why?  Because the... (27/01/2010 - 04:37 | 0 comments | 5 stars)
gmanon: Too much theology: Since Philosophy was introduced into Christianity, religious keep diversifying the point of the word of God to justify their lack of faith. The words of Jesus are simple, just hard to ... (25/01/2010 - 22:16 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: The Bible as a Resource for Faithful Action in the World Today:   In what I thought was an excellent Opinionator piece in the NY Times, Stanley Fish asks: “Must there be a bottom line?”  He reviews Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s new book,... (25/01/2010 - 03:33 | 0 comments | 3 stars)
Jacob: The Irony of Christian Syncretism: Many Christians argue that syncretism is a problem for believers today.  Blending Christian and non-Christian practices is a bad move.  For instance, Denny Burk recently argued that... (15/01/2010 - 19:08 | 3 comments | 3 stars)
hilary: The Voice- an emergent Bible translation?: “The Voice”, a new translation of the New Testament, was published in 2008, but I only recently became aware of it through some scathing reviews such as this from Chris Rosebrough at... (03/01/2010 - 15:56 | 8 comments | 0 stars)
peter wilkinson: Revelation Recontextualised: Not just because I get quoted on Dave Wainscott’s blog (Gustavo Martin pointed it out to me - in connection with his article on Register Analysis in Mark 13 ), but because there is... (29/12/2009 - 15:05 | 2 comments | 0 stars)
peter wilkinson: Mark 13 and Register Analysis: Frequenters of OST who follow the debates surrounding Andrew’s radical re-reading of the gospels according to a historical narrative interpretation, and the focus on the Olivet discourse... (18/12/2009 - 15:42 | 6 comments | 5 stars)
Jacob: One important reason that objective monotheism is a bad idea; or, How to respond to a philosophical realist/atheist in the blogosphere: Ed Yong at the blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, discusses a recent study: For many religious people, the popular question “What would Jesus do?” is essentially the same as “... (02/12/2009 - 05:24 | 2 comments | 4 stars)
rodgertutt: IF YOU CANNOT LOVE AN ETERNAL-TORMENT GOD: If you cannot love an eternal torment god   For the first 500 years after Christ, universalism was the prevailing doctrine believed and taught by the Christian church. These online... (20/11/2009 - 16:01 | 0 comments | 3 stars)
peter wilkinson: Surprised by Tom Wright - a review of Surprised by Hope: Knowing I would have a few hours to spare here and there on a recent visit to Rovaniemi, just outside the Finnish Arctic Circle (setting of the Sauna episodes in The Demise of Sir Toby’s), I... (16/11/2009 - 21:19 | 0 comments | 3.8 stars)
Andrew: Suspension of OST: I’m afraid Open Source Theology has fallen into abeyance (despite a recent endorsement from Andrew Jones) and is maintained now only as an archive. You may like to visit p.ost, where I write on... (04/11/2009 - 23:43 | 0 comments | 3.4 stars)
Jacob: What does gleaning mean in our present context?: A few weeks ago I was in Philadelphia’s Penn (train) Station. It was late and I was hungry, so I went into the only available store: Dunkin’ Doughnuts. The store was about to close and I... (24/10/2009 - 17:17 | 0 comments | 3 stars)
James Walden: The World's Wisdom and God's Folly: A Gospel of Deconstruction: In 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5, Paul makes the case against his critics in Corinth (as well as his “fans,” who have too closely attached themselves to his ministry, 1:12-16) for preaching an... (20/10/2009 - 22:41 | 30 comments | 5 stars)
Jacob: On the Historical Origins of Intelligent Design: Over at the Thinking Christian, Tom Gilson, a proponent of intelligent design, asks: “Who Defines ID?” My goal in this essay is not to define ID, but to inquire into its origins. For Tom... (17/10/2009 - 04:27 | 0 comments | 5 stars)
hilary: "Bind us together Lord"- is Christianity corporate or individual?: Michael Thompson writes in his booklet “The New Perspective on Paul” that ‘authentic Christianity is fundamentally corporate’.  This emphasis on relationships and... (15/10/2009 - 17:37 | 25 comments | 3 stars)
peter wilkinson: A Generous Orthdoxy - Brian McLaren: I’ve only just got round to reading ‘A Generous Orthodoxy’, which makes this review at least three years late, and possibly more: McLaren’s material was made copyright in 2004... (08/10/2009 - 14:07 | 3 comments | 3.3 stars)
Jacob: The Nuclear Sword Is Not In Vain; or, How Some Conflate Their American National Identity With Their Commitment to Christ: Whatever direction(s) the emerging church is emerging, I pray to the God of Israel that it does not involve traveling this path toward these conclusions based on this kind of Christo-Americanist... (07/10/2009 - 04:58 | 1 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: The future of the New Testament and the Sibylline Oracles: My argument in both The Coming of the Son of Man and Re: Mission is that New Testament eschatology – that is, the interest that the New Testament has in future events – can for the most... (11/09/2009 - 10:02 | 3 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Postmodern Apologetics in a Post-Postmodern Time?: Mike Morrell asks whether we can get beyond postmodern disdain towards apologetics and come up with a post-postmodern apologetics. (10/09/2009 - 20:01 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Emergent Theology - It's Not All Bad By Any Means: John Smithson comments at some length on my 15 point definition of emerging theology (What (again) is an emerging theology?). (04/09/2009 - 10:13 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Duncan: The Antichrist Revealed: The Connections Between the Individual Beast of Revelation and the Little Horn of Daniel 7: I have been working on a book for the last ten years entitled The Antichrist and the Second Coming. After a decade of work, the book became so long (about 1,000 pages) I am making it into two volumes... (03/09/2009 - 01:05 | 1 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Where does N. T. Wright stand on the Atonement?: I added a comment to a post by Lee Irons on NT Wright’s understanding of atonement. He has since followed up with a two-part essay on ‘The story that frames the atonement’ (part 1,... (01/09/2009 - 20:03 | 3 comments | 0 stars)
peter wilkinson: Contextualising the faith for today and the role of the Holy Spirit: Something has been nagging away in my mind for some time about the new ‘historicist’ approach to theology, as pioneered by Wright, Dunn and the New Perspective theologians, the neo-preterists, and... (31/08/2009 - 18:18 | 12 comments | 3.7 stars)
Jacob: "Gays"/"Straights" and Conservative Postmodernism: Sexual orientation, especially in terms of “gays” and “straights,” is a hot topic for many Christians. The controversy has lead many people to take some interesting stances in regard to sexual ... (29/08/2009 - 18:09 | 13 comments | 2.3 stars)
Andrew: The continuing war between Emergents and Reformed over the cross: The war in America between Emergents and Reformed is a depressing business. A recent piece by Greg Gilbert on the 9Marks blog (Not Just Important, Not Even Just VERY Important. “Of FIRST... (29/08/2009 - 11:30 | 7 comments | 3.5 stars)
Jacob: My Suffering Is All Part of God's Plan: Sometimes people are lone survivors amidst a field of death and suffering, as I put it in a recent post, and this status can create a problem for one’s faith in God. How could an all good God... (22/08/2009 - 21:05 | 3 comments | 5 stars)
hilary: Theology and the Sunday congregation: But I probably gave myself too much freedom to explore some of the literary questions that it raises. I’d like to pick up on this comment – what assumptions do we make about the... (22/08/2009 - 12:12 | 4 comments | 4 stars)
James Walden: Re: John Piper and the imputation of a real moral righteousness: Andrew writes: The first thing to note about this argument is that it is thoroughly decontextualized. Wright is perhaps partly to blame for this by placing so much emphasis on the law court ... (12/08/2009 - 10:48 | 15 comments | 4 stars)
Andrew: Is Richard Dawkins like Jesus?: In a This much I know piece at guardian.co.uk the British philosopher A.C. Grayling writes: ‘I would imagine Jesus was a kind of Jewish reformer. If you were looking for an equivalent to the... (11/08/2009 - 18:13 | 1 comments | 4 stars)