Posts Tagged ‘ theology ’

this week’s reading comes from dorothy c. bass, craig dykstra, and amy plantiga pauw on religious/christian practice and beliefs.  bass and dykstra focus their chapter in practicing theology on defining practice as a term and its uniqueness to the religious.  plantiga pauw focuses on the gap between beliefs and practices.  bass and dykstra present...
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Moby.  Check this out. BTW my new favorite ‘real’ theologian is Pete Rollins.  If you haven’t read How (Not) to Speak of God, shame on you.
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For one of my classes, we read a Jewish philosopher named Martin Buber, and I think I found a new friend. His work, I and Thou, is a staple at Mars Hill Graduate School. Buber is interesting because he really has an incarnational view of life or you could say theology, yet his idea...
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I picked the title "re:create" for my blog for many different reasons.  Creation is a big part of my theology, in the sense that the Creator made us in that image.  This means we bear the image of the Creator and thus create other images.  Therefore anything we create will in some way bear...
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so i asked for introductions from the people that made it to this blog and as part of the intros i asked for each comment to include a theological question that was on the brain. so i’d like to take a chance to make a response to those questions. in no way am i...
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so i asked for introductions from the people that made it to this blog and as part of the intros i asked for each comment to include a theological question that was on the brain. so i’d like to take a chance to make a response to those questions. in no way am i...
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so i asked for introductions from the people that made it to this blog and as part of the intos i asked for each comment to include a theological question that was on the brain. so i’d like to take a chance to make a response to those questions. in no way am i...
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for those of you in the seattle area and regulars to theology pub, here’s the info on the next meeting. we’ll be at the stumbling monk in capital hill from about 7-9pm. they don’t serve food, but karen says we can bring food in. so just make sure you buy a beer or two...
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today has been about redemption for me.  sometimes themes creep into my life for a day, for a week, sometimes for years.  today the theme of redemption has hit me like a ton of bricks.    all day today i sick feeling in my stomach for some mistakes i made in the most important...
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The gnostics held a view about God that I find very striking. It’s the idea that the God of the Old Testament is very different from the God of the New Testament.  Really fascinating stuff actually.  Gnostic’s taught that the God of the O.T. was a mean, judgmental, and un-loving God, and that the...
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