Trinitarian theology and missionAnother Xchange session at the Christian Associates Summer Connect (see also The kingdom of God as a means to an end) attempted to address the relevance (or otherwise) of Trinitarian theology for...(08/23/2010 - 10:37)
Euangelion (briefly) on The Future of the People of GodSome brief, non-analytical but very gratifying comments (let’s be honest) on The Future of the People of God from Joel Willitts at Euangelion, including the following:Wow! Read that again...(08/21/2010 - 18:46)
The kingdom of God as a means to an endWhy is the ‘kingdom of God’ such a tricky theological notion? In a group discussion on ‘Kingdom Theology” at the Christian Associates Global Connect recently we managed...(08/20/2010 - 09:47)
TallSkinnyKiwi review of The Future of the People of GodI gave Andrew Jones a copy of The Future of the People of God at the Christian Associates Global Connect last week and he’s read and reviewed it already. It’s a very fair and perceptive...(08/19/2010 - 13:44)
Rewriting the debate: resurrection and RomansMy friend Hilary has been reading The Future of the People of God and had a question about a paragraph on page 49. Since it has reference one of the critical arguments of the book – that the...(08/19/2010 - 12:57)
Straws in the wind: why the emerging church still mattersBrian LePort (Near Emmaus) suggests, not unreasonably, that the more pertinent question is not whether the emergent church has a problem with the doctrine of a final judgment (see previous post) but...(07/31/2010 - 11:58)
Paul the maker of theatrical scenery?Here’s an interesting thought. In The Hermeneutics of Doctrine (70), as part of a discussion on ‘Christian Doctrine as Dramatic Narrative’, Thiselton notes the argument of L.L....(07/28/2010 - 13:21)
Blessing in microcosmMichael Thompson correctly points out that the argument about blessing and righteousness and the Deuteronomic code would be helped if we kept in view the seminal statement in Genesis 12:3 that Israel...(07/27/2010 - 11:47)
The narrative premise of a post-Christendom theologyI regard myself as an evangelical, but the social and intellectual structures that have sustained and made sense of modern evangelicalism are...(13 May 2010)
In self-defenceWhat is it about theology – or perhaps, what is it about human intellectual activity generally – that makes it so hard for us to listen to each other...(8 Jul 2010)
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...(5 Jun 2009)