Our review today is by Kyle Strobel (@kylestrobel), an Edwards specialist and who engages this big new book by McClymond and McDermott at the level of experts. So enjoy … The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (OUP, 2012) by Michael J. McClymond and Gerald R. McDermott Scot has already reviewed several small portions of this behemoth, [...]
Theology … The Queen of the Sciences? (RJS)
Apr 19, 2012 @ 5:31 By 27 Comments
In today’s post I would like to put forth a few ideas for discussion, all related to the claim that theology is the queen of the sciences and how this could or should play out. This isn’t a polished argument, but a desire to start a conversation. The modern university has its origin in the [...]
You and Your Church’s “Statement of Faith”
Mar 27, 2012 @ 0:07 By 74 Comments
This from a friend … If you attend a typical independent evangelical church, even one that is more pragmatic than doctrinaire, the church probably has a written “Statement of Faith,” which members are supposed to uphold. As someone who participates in a community like Jesus Creed, you’ve probably thought through some of the issues reflected [...]
America’s Neglected Theologian
Mar 23, 2012 @ 5:03 By 17 Comments
There aren’t that many “great” theologians when it comes to paradigm-shifting and you-have-to-read theologians. Asia Minor produced the Cappadocians — Gregory of Nyssa, Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus, North Africa produced Tertullian and Augustine, France produced Aquinas, Germany spawned Luther, Switzerland (or France) gave us Calvin, England led to Anselm … but when it comes [...]
New Document for Theology
Mar 11, 2012 @ 15:07 By 10 Comments
Michael Barber, and his buddies are my favorite young Catholic theologians today: Today has been an extremely exciting day! The International Theological Commission has a new document out, Theology Today:Perspectives, Principles and Criteria. This is an incredibly helpful guide to doing Catholic theology. To be sure, this is not a magisterial document–an official document from [...]
Edwards, Some Big Ideas
Feb 6, 2012 @ 0:05 By 11 Comments
At the heart of worship, at the heart of Christian living, at the heart of prayer, at the heart of church history — at the heart of all creation — is beauty, and that beauty emerges from a beautiful and glorious God. What we experience of beauty is because God is beauty. So, when McClymond [...]
America’s Theologian
Jan 20, 2012 @ 0:04 By 9 Comments
There really is only one person who can be called “America’s theologian,” Jonathan Edwards. The problems are many: his writings are incredibly dense, they are demanding intellectually, they are infused with a life of thinking so they are intense, and they are expensive to buy in the Yale edition. Hence, most of us buy older editions, [...]
Warning Passages Ahead: Brief Response
Jan 16, 2012 @ 0:06 By 48 Comments
Over at The Gospel Coalition Peter O’Brien, a wonderful man and scholar from Australia, has entered into an interview with Collin Hansen on the warning passages in Hebrews. I read the interview because I like the work of O’Brien and because I recently posted on this very issue. In essence, the interview assumes or argues [...]
Science and Theology 3 – A Matter of Time (RJS)
Dec 20, 2011 @ 6:02 By 25 Comments
Last week I began a discussion of a recent book by The Rev. Dr. Polkinghorne, Theology in the Context of Science. This is a rather academic book – but the kind of book that someone who wants to move beyond the culture war issues of young earth, old earth, and evolution should find useful. In [...]
Science and Theology 1 – Science as Context (RJS)
Dec 13, 2011 @ 5:20 By 70 Comments
Over the course of the next month or so I am going to look at three recent books by The Rev. Dr. Polkinghorne. The first, Theology in the Context of Science, I will begin today. The other two, Testing Scripture: A Scientist Explores the Bible and Science and Religion in Quest of Truth, will follow. [...]
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