From Lohfink?s Jesus and Community: The rule of God evidently presupposes a people, a people of God, in whom it can become established and from whom it can shine forth. The texts of the New Testament must not be read through the lens of a theological individualism able to imagine the reign of God only […]
The Divine Hours
One of the highlights of my vacation was practicing the discipline of fixed hour prayer using Phyllis Tickle’s The Divine Hours. I’ve been dipping into fixed hour prayer on and off for three years now and I’ve found it to be one of the more helpful disciplines to me. I like the rhythm it gives […]
August 11, 2005 by 6 Comments
Summer Reading
I read a number of books while on vacation. Some of them I actually read and others I listened to while running on the beach or while putting just over 2400 miles on the mini-van. I refused to read anything with footnotes in it. Some of the books I listened to may have contained footnotes, […]
August 10, 2005 by 5 Comments
Book Meme
Mike Kruger has tagged me for a response to the “Book Meme.” I had the privelege of officiating Mike and Sara’s wedding many moons ago. Thanks Mike for the opportunity to blather on about one of my favorite subjects. 1) How many books have I owned? Just over a thousand. I have them spread through […]
July 6, 2005 by 7 Comments
Quantum Theory
I’ve been doing a little reading about quantum theory. After watching What the Bleep Do We Know?, I went down to Borders and found Quantum Theory, A Very Short Introduction by John Polkinghorne. I read Polkinghorne’s The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker several years ago and really enjoyed it. As its […]
June 30, 2005 by 9 Comments
A “Spiritual” Cop-Out
I read Matt Elliot’s blog earlier today and then I read the following in Our Father Abraham: Unlike the ancient Greeks, the Hebrews viewed the world as good. Though fallen and unredeemed, it was created by a God who designed it with humanity’s best interests at heart. So instead of fleeing from the world, human […]
June 21, 2005 by 5 Comments
Emerging Headwaters
I was talking with someone yesterday about the theological/philosophical headwaters for the emerging conversation. There are a handful of names that keep turning up in the footnotes of books written in the emergent tone of voice. Here are the ones I’m thinking of in no particular order: 1. Lesslie Newbigin 2. Michael Polanyi (Newbigin refererences […]
June 16, 2005 by 10 Comments
What Do Pastors Read?
Scot McKnight reflects on the results of a recent Barna survey that asked pastors the question: What are the three books that have been most helpful to you as a ministry leader in the last 3 years? Here’s my answer: 1. The Challenge of Jesus by N. T. Wright. 2. A Theory of Everything by […]
June 9, 2005 by 14 Comments
Group Allegiance Over Religious Beliefs
In Our Father Abraham, Marvin Wilson explores the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. One of the things he does is show how, with the hellenization of the early church and its gospel, some very important Jewish ways of thinking and being were lost or at least de-emphasized. One example is the Greek emphasis on […]
June 2, 2005 by 15 Comments
Book List
I’m doing a little housekeeping around here today. I’ve posted a new and improved Book List.
May 9, 2005 by 3 Comments
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