Terrific opening, and it doesn’t let up:
Let me put my cards on the table right from the outset. I am sick and tired of hearing Christians who have something at stake in the status quo of economic, social and political systems of injustice appealing to Romans 13 to legitimate unswerving obedience to oppressive and deceitful regimes.
To Hell […]
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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 […]
I’m increasingly convinced that so much theology out there majors on minors. That is to say, I think that a predominant theological tendency (from my very limited vantage point) is to elevate doctrines of little ultimate consequence to the centre of attention, while neglecting those which really give Christianity its distinctive, problematic flavour.
Dogmatisms of both left […]
In my current philosophical wanderings through the thicket of faith and reason, I’m starting to see some themes emerge. The following is a gross over-simplification, but it may serve as a helpful theological lens through which to view the postmodern turn in philosophy.
The modern (Enlightenment) view of reason ignored the category of sin. The belief was […]
I’ve been listening to a lot of Emmylou Harris this summer. She’s a longtime country singer who got a career restart when Daniel Lanois (U2’s producer) produced Wrecking Ball for her in 1995. Although traces of country remain in her new sound, it’s tough to pigeon-hole what exactly she sounds like now, other than awesome.
The lyrics […]
Jac and I are reading The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch very sporadically, but tonight’s session produced some particularly juicy food for thought. Hirsch contends that discipleship became very difficult during the modern period, as three powerful forces competed with the call of discipleship to Christ. These were:
The rise of capitalism and of the free market […]
