adhunt:
Whence the Philospher of Science?:
Can anybody besides me get a kick out of this? This is the definition of ‘science’ in my Cultural Anthropology textbook. I have a feeling somewhere Thomas Kuhn is stirring in his ...
(17/09/2008 - 01:13 |
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Andrew:
Review request: Jesus Brand Spirituality:
I’ve been offered a review copy of Jesus Brand Spirituality: He Wants His Religion Back by Ken Wilson, published by Thomas Nelson. Here’s what the publicist says about it:...
(15/09/2008 - 13:07 |
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adhunt:
A Test Case in Narratival Communal Identity:
I regularly attend a somewhat charismatic and middle-church Episcopalian parish. So when I learned that in the same city there was a true "smells and bells" high Anglo-Catholic Parish I...
(13/09/2008 - 01:15 |
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neworgans:
Emerging church and race:
I had an interesting conversation a couple of months ago. One of my friends had just gone to an emergent worship service with different prayer stations, candles, music, etc. She expressed to me how...
(10/09/2008 - 19:50 |
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Jacob:
A Brief Comparison of Greek and Christian Modes of Discipleship and Obedience:
Awhile back I posted a review of one of Michel Foucault’s lectures on what he calls “pastoral power.” I meant to post again from his lectures, but for a variety of reasons I got off track. This...
(05/09/2008 - 16:00 |
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peter wilkinson:
The Gods Aren't Angry:
This is the title of Rob Bell’s second tour film (the first being ‘Everything is Spiritual’) recorded live at one of the presentations. He speaks for 90 minutes, entirely without...
(04/09/2008 - 14:59 |
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Andrew:
What can an emerging theology learn from preterism?:
Duncan’s post on the narrative of Revelation has sparked an interesting dispute about the relationship between an emerging theology and preterism. Since the conversation isn’t directly...
(04/09/2008 - 13:51 |
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Desert Reign:
Openness:
I’d just like to try to understand what people here think openness is and how far it affects their thinnking. I have my own independently arrived at views of it but didn’t want to just...
(01/09/2008 - 15:09 |
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Duncan:
What is the Narrative of Revelation?:
Is there a narrative to Revelation? Does it have a unifying storyline? Despite the many complexities of the book, the answer to this question is a definite yes; there is a clear storyline to ...
(30/08/2008 - 21:23 |
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Roderick:
Why Hyperpreterism can never be systematic:
When a premise, assertion or formula is
put forth, the true way to test it is to push it to its conclusions.
Systematically applying a premise will quickly reveal if the premise
itself is ...
(29/08/2008 - 06:30 |
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Andrew:
The problem of an 'overrealized' eschatology:
[I have moved this comment and the discussion attached to it from the
Mark Driscoll, the church and the supremacy of Christ thread because, as so often happens, it takes us off down the long and...
(25/08/2008 - 15:47 |
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Andrew:
Mark Driscoll, the church and the supremacy of Christ:
The Christian Associates Thinkings group will be getting together in the Hague in October to explore the question of what it means to proclaim Christ as Lord in a post-Christendom, post-modern and...
(24/08/2008 - 16:20 |
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enarchay:
End of the age:
I find a historically rooted interpretation of the small apocalypses to be the most satisfactory. However, there is one detail specifically and a possible problem that could arise out of it that I...
(23/08/2008 - 15:07 |
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paulhartigan:
Celibacy?:
There has been a constant tension in post axial religions between the attainment of earthly and transcendental goods. Pre axial religions were much more straightforward in seeing the satisfaction...
(22/08/2008 - 03:22 |
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Andrew:
Greg Boyd's review of Re: Mission:
Greg Boyd has posted a short review of my book Re: Mission on his blog. He is very generous in his (not unqualified) recommendation of it, but there are a couple of points that I would like to reply...
(20/08/2008 - 10:58 |
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drew27:
Some Ideas I need your honest and open thoughts on:
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, so please let me know if you find problems with my philosophy, theology, anything.
The first premise is that there is no divine reward and...
(13/08/2008 - 19:33 |
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Desert Reign:
No time like the present:
I’ve been reading some of the older posts on this site about narrative. OK, I’m totally uneducated in this field so I haven’t got a vocabulary, some of Andrew’s comments...
(09/08/2008 - 00:38 |
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Virgil:
Welcome to Kona Jack's!:
A few days earlier I stopped by this
restaurant for lunch and I went back every day that week. They had
great food, but an even better menu. It was so good that I brought one
back with me. It’s...
(08/08/2008 - 19:25 |
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Desert Reign:
Jehovah's Witnesses:
Just a note raised by the recent thread on denominations:
JWs believe that Jesus is the incarnation of Michael the Archangel. They specifically argue that he should not be worshipped and that...
(08/08/2008 - 19:24 |
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1 stars)
qoheleth:
Survey of Doctrine:
I recently took an internet survey of about 50 questions. When my answers were tallied, the sponsors of the survey broke my answers do into percentages of various orthodox or heterodox labels; i.e....
(03/08/2008 - 01:58 |
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enarchay:
One body and the problem of denominations:
N.T. Wright offers the conclusion in What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity? that because justification by faith has to do with believers having the...
(02/08/2008 - 03:59 |
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Andrew:
Greg Boyd and the politics of spiritual warfare:
Greg Boyd is known for his work on spiritual warfare. Although I have always been rather wary of this whole subject, I enjoyed his talk this week on this aspect of the beautiful kingdom that revolts...
(01/08/2008 - 16:50 |
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grazi18518:
Faithfulness of God:
Traditional religion teaches that the opposite of God is the devil. This is not true. In direct opposition to God is man and his pride (free will). Man says that the sin of man (Adam) was strong...
(01/08/2008 - 03:33 |
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Desert Reign:
The Rainbow Over:
Traditional evangelical theology is rather selective in ending the primaeval story at the fall. Mankind is lost, fallen from an original state of perfection, we are told, the next best thing for us...
(29/07/2008 - 17:07 |
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Andrew:
Greg Boyd, revolting beauty, and the imitation of Jesus:
We have Greg Boyd speaking this week at the Christian Associates staff conference in Sopron in Hungary. His theme is pretty much the stuff of a new book that will be coming out later this year,...
(28/07/2008 - 17:59 |
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mschellman:
Where have theological assumptions caused the church to reject good and/or pursue evil?:
Where have theological assumptions caused the church to reject good and/or pursue evil?
Many have made the case that pre-trib theology promotes a certain world view that discourages...
(26/07/2008 - 00:56 |
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rogermugs:
Are you - as emergents - actually building the church:
Take a look at these verses and tell me honestly. I want to hear your opinion. Is the emergent church breaking away or building the church? Don’t just give an answer, back it up.
1...
(25/07/2008 - 17:40 |
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rogermugs:
seeking theologers:
in my anxiousness to always try new things/grow community…
I decided to make a place where people could blog together (a group blog) about theology, the bible, or anything related to the...
(25/07/2008 - 17:34 |
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BurntOffering:
A Voice of Noise & Mark of the Beast as seen in Isa. 66:6-9:
What would you do; if God told you; that You are Satan in the flesh of a real live Christian woman. Therefore as Satan, knowing Time is Short, how would you let the other members of the church know...
(22/07/2008 - 17:36 |
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