Theology Creative Theology: The Normative Role of Scripture 16 Oct 2014 Creativity can happen within boundaries. Conservatives and liberals alike have painted an artificial dichotomy between submission to the authority of Scripture and theological creativity. It’s one or the other they…
Theology Creative Theology: Introduction (Part 3) 9 Oct 2014 It is possible, over time, to develop a sort of theological enclave. A group-think can form that quarantines itself from any outside perspectives, and guards itself against any internal criticisms.…
Theology Creative Theology: Introduction (Part 2) 2 Oct 2014 It is my contention that within the boundaries of orthodoxy there is a kind of theological creativity that is essential to Christianity. Last week I began exploring this idea by…
Theology Creative Theology: Introduction (Part 1) 25 Sep 2014 Christianity and creativity don’t seem like natural bed fellows. A two-thousand year old faith does not itself speak of progressivism, and those who have most readily aligned themselves with progressivism…
Theology Doing Theology in Love 13 Aug 2014 With all the internecine debates and in-house fighting it’s sometimes hard to believe that Christian theology could have anything to do with love. But it should. Paul instructs the Ephesians…
Theology The Danger of a Disembodied Theology 6 Aug 2014 The Christian faith is an embodied faith. That is to say, we cannot reduce Christianity to a mere spiritual reality with no ramifications for, nor involvement in, our earthliness. If…
Theology Learning to Love the Bible from Psalm 119 22 Jul 2014 The longest chapter in the whole Bible is a praise song about the commands of the Lord. It likely strikes you as it does me: strange. We don't generally have…
Theology A Hermeneutic of Finitude: The Value of Multiperspectivalism in Theological Development 6 May 2014 The eulogy for arrogant epistemology has been clearly spoken in the postmodern era. Sometimes it has said too much, but often it has been just right. The characteristic arrogance of…
Theology Servant Knowledge 2 Apr 2014 To know God is to know Him as Covenant Lord. God is the authoritative Lord over all, who enters into personal relationship with His people. All our knowledge of Him…
Atonement… The “Heart” of the Atonement (Part 8): Holding to the Center While Appreciating the Diversity 18 Mar 201418 Mar 2014 How do we get so unbalanced in theological discussions? How do we end up emphasizing some things to such a degree that it diminishes the importance of others? My frustration…
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