This world -oriented procalamation is essential to RO, for RO is not intended to be just an interior – albeit prophetic – monolgue within the church. Rather , it is intended to motivate a kerygmatic engagement with contemporary culture RO is advocating a distinctly theological engagement with the world– and the academy that investigates this world—undergirded by the belief that Continue Reading
Though seeking to retrieve premodern resources for theological reflection, RO is not simply a nostalgic preoccupation or a simplistic return to old paths. Rather, it seeks to rethink tradition as the very condition for theological refelection — something that evangelicals would do well to consider. Even its crtique of modernity should not be construed as a simple antimodernity; rather, “Radical Continue Reading
Here is what I will return to as the point of debate I have with Smith over his critique of Wallis: What have Basel (Barth) and Goshen (Yoder) to do with one another? While it remains a curious amalgam, the possibility of the synthesis is found in Barth and Yoder’s shared emphasis on the antithesis of revelation vis-a-vis given cultural Continue Reading
It’s still real early, but a few observations as I delve into Introducing Radical Orthodoxy (IRO). I love it. It is right on in many respects, as I see it. I can’t help but “anticipate” the places in which I hear, becuase of his earlier article on his blog on Wallis and God’s Politics: a post he titled: Constantinianism of Continue Reading
Immediately prior to starting my reading of Introducing Radical Orthodoxy by James K.A. Smith, I have these thoughts, in light of Smith’s critiquing of Wallis in this post on his blog. (Now Wallis REALLY needs to get his blog going, so that he can answer these charges; or ,better, instead of calling them “charges” – like they are condemning each Continue Reading
I’ve been reading Revive Us Again by Jim Wallis (1983), and realizing I didn’t read much of this book when I got it about 20 years ago. I started subscribing to Sojourners in 1984 after I heard Wallis speak to the Lutheran Church in America’s meetings of the Pacific synod , which were held at a church where I was Continue Reading
Move over, allconsuming.net, there’s bookgarden.org, Eric Lee’s very hot (also cool) book blogging aggregagtor. I’ve posted a few, Vaughn did a few, Charlie is doing God’s Politics, and of course, Eric. Some of mine were entries on my blog about Eric’s entries on The Cost of Discipleship. It’s our own little small group book discussion, but with blogging, we can Continue Reading
I started still yet another new book this week: The Power of Many I took some notes as I was waiting around for the first BlogNashville event Friday night. I’ll be posting them soon. (BTW, the Title of this Post had a typiing mistake. No pun intended. Just horrible typing, but it works, doesn’t it?)
All Consuming The web is a big place and sometimes people in one corner may not know what the people in the other corner are doing. Let all your friends know what you’re up to over here by putting something like this on your site over there: (Omitted here) You can change those two red things at the end of Continue Reading
I had learned of All Consuming over a year ago, and recently, I revisited it, and made a list of what I am “consuming”. It appears as a syndication in the lower right column of my blog home page (which is what this page is if you are reading it by visiting my main URL). This seems like a good Continue Reading
David Burrell of Notre Dame University, in the foreword to The Peaceable Kingdom (and a foreword that warmed me up quite nicely to dive in) [Hauerwas’ argument is] a thoroughly Catholic argument, in that sense which transcends “Roman” and increasingly includes Protestants who would participate in a long-standing tradition, For it locates the self firmly within a community, shaped in Continue Reading
Tonight’s revised stack :the ones I have kept by my side (in my book bag, on the nightstand, sitting right in front of me as a I blog), and from which will be pulling stuff from over the next several days. Crossan and McLaren are still around, but I may not be back to them for a few days….I had Continue Reading
Eric mentioned how he was taking a cue from me on my posting pics of what I’m reading, and it’s been about a month, so I snapped a couple more (posted “what I just finished” last night; and these are the “top of the stack” candidates (minus Crossan’s In Search of Paul). All of these have bookmarks in them. I Continue Reading
NOT pictured here (it wasn’t in the room when I placed the books on my chair) is Sider’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. While there were places where I was a little put off (not much , mind you, but just a little) by some “typical sounding” “Bible authority” and certain conservative opinions, what endears me to Sider is Continue Reading
Ron Sider has written The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience which identifies some disturbing trends in American evangelicalism: mainly, that the lifestyles of American Christians, evangelicals in particular, are far from showing a “people set apart” from the world. In fact, in some cases, it is quite the opposite. Just starting, but I have always respected Sider, who seems to Continue Reading