Reading Romans eschatologically
You may or may not have noticed that I have been working my way rather
laboriously - and no doubt presumptuously - through an online commentary
on Romans. What got me going on this was the growing...
Ramification
I have been watching with some interest recent trends within the emerging church to forge a clearer self identity. Within the emerging movement itself there are recognisable groupings and trends of...
Shane Claiborne and the rich young ruler
I don’t think I’m grossly misrepresenting the book if I say that Shane
Claiborne’s The Irresistible Revolution is basically an impassioned,
iconoclastic, mischievous challenge to...
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...