Jesus is not God AlmightyIn private emails between Peter and myself, the subject of the divinity
of Jesus came up. I suggested that it would be a good idea to publish a
post summarising our exchange and inviting further...
10 principles for reading the Bible in a postmodern contextImplicit in these principles is a process of deconstruction followed by reconstruction. Deconstruction is necessary because there are certain ‘invisible’ structures present in our...
Who are 'the least of these'?
One important point of biblical interpretation that came up
during the course of a recent TREK
gathering with the Christian Associates team in Gothenburg had to do
with the meaning of Jesus’...
Is that third horizon just a mirage?Mike Morrell has articulated a good question about the thesis of The Coming of the Son of Man and Re: Mission. It comes down to this: Given the...
The particularity of the people of GodMike Morrell prompted me initially to respond to Kevin Beck’s This Book Will Change Your World, and has now posted some thought-provoking comments....
Emmanuel Katongole and A Future for AfricaI have started reading Emmanuel Katongole’s A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination as preparation for the Amahoro...
One of theOne of the more peculiar objections that John Piper raises against Wright’s understanding of Paul’s ‘gospel’ is that the announcement that Jesus is...
Katongole: How postmodernism hurts AfricaIn ‘Postmodern illusions and performances’, the fourth essay in A Future for Africa, Emmanuel Katongole argues that postmodernism is unlikely to...
The limited ambitions of the people of GodWilliam Cheriegate asked me to expand on the following remark in my post on Transmillennialism – not least for the benefit of those who ‘grew up in...
Sweet and Viola: A Jesus ManifestoLeonard Sweet and Frank Viola have recently issued A Magna Carta of Restoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ, a.k.a. A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st...