In the Mail: John Howard Yoder’s For The Nations: Essays Public & Evangelical
Last week, in my desperate need to read more and more of John Howard Yoder’s work in my precious free time, I ordered his For The Nations: Essays Public & Evangelical. The book actually comes at...
View ArticleWould Clement, Athanasius, or Augustine Be Biblio/Theo-bloggers?
As I was working through my thesis and sometimes blogging on a few of my arguments concerning God’s transcendence, I tried to imagine, what if Clement of Alexandria was biblioblogger? He would probably...
View ArticleCynthia on St. Augustine as Social Activist
From Cynthia: “For Augustine, slavery is an unnatural, prelapsarian institution, which God permits as a form of either “reformatory” or “retributive” punishment for sin.” “Before discussing passages...
View ArticlePacifism As Christian Discipleship part 1 of 2
A Response to Daniel M. Bell, Jr. This post has been several months in the making. Not that it has been in my queue for a while but ever since fellow biblioblogger Craig Falvo and I have had back and...
View ArticleThomas Jay Oord’s The Nature of Love: A Theology
Disclaimer: This is a review of Thomas Jay Oord’s The Nature of Love: A Theology. Full disclosure– I personally know and have met Professor Oord on a couple of occassions at the annual Wesleyan...
View ArticleChristmas & Cosmic Liberation: Mary as Noah 2.0
An Experiment in Allegorical Interpretation Right around Christmas time, we Protestant Christians like to rush right through the Incarnation, spit on the idea that YHWH arrived here on Earth as a baby,...
View ArticleRanking, Theological Studies, and Racial Hierarchy: Some A-Musings #SBLAAR
Recently, I keep thinking whether to be saddened or happy that I did not have the means to go to the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature. Why would I enter a space where my body...
View ArticleJohn Milbank’s Use Of Patristic Theology: An Observation
I am over a quarter of a ways finished reading with Milbank’s Theology And Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason. In seminary, I was warned not to read John Milbank’s work because the professor informed...
View ArticleThe Answer Is Always, Augustine. Always!
If you’re a Christian and need to learn about Christian theology and history? Answer is simple: Go read Augustine of Hippo. Wanna have sex talk in churches? Go and read Saint Augustine! Need to know...
View ArticleOur Bondage And Our Freedom: on Lent and neoliberalism
William T. Cavanaugh provides an intriguing analysis of modern consumer culture in relation to Christian social norms and morality in his work Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire. He...
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