Matt Wiebe’s blog about faith and life.
A couple of must-reads for those interested in the public implications of faith:
Christ and Culture and Church and Creation - James K.A. Smith reviews D.A. Carson’s Christ and Culture Revisited, and finds it lacking. A gem of a quote:
One gets the sense that Carson’s eternity lacks cultural institutions —an eternity without commerce or politics, art, or […]
James K.A. Smith has become a thinker dear to my heart as someone with remarkable similarities to myself: someone fascinated with academics who has nonetheless been nourished by charismatic Christianity; who continually thinks and writes along the fuzzy boundaries between philosophy and theology; who also is engaged with issues pertaining to the urban built environment.
He recently […]
The Gospel of Freedom, or Another Gospel?: Augustinian Reflections on American Foreign Policy – by James K.A. Smith
Go read something by someone smarter than me, if you’re into thinking about empire, competing conceptions of freedom and theologically-based political critique. It’s long, but worthwhile.
I’m reading James K.A. Smith’s Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church, which has a point that resonates very strongly with what I’m struggling about regarding church. (Not that I’m struggling against “them,” but “me.”)
Within the matrix of a modern Christianity, the base “ingredient” is the individual; the church, then, is simply […]
