Monthly Archives: June 2011
Wright: Divine Sorrow
Here, N. T. Wright beautifully articulates the good message of Christianity
in the midst of a broken world:
Olson: Evangelicalism
Here is a good series of posts on Neo-Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, and Neo-Fundamentalism by Dr. Roger Olson:
2010.08.14 Is there one evangelicalism?
2010.08.16 “Confessions of a postconservative evangelical”
2010.08.19 Why inerrancy doesn’t matter
2010.10.10 Defining “fundamentalism”
2010.12.16 “Evangelicalism”-What is that?
2011.03.05 N.T. Wright, Richard Bauckham, British evangelicals, and me
2011.03.09 Announcing a forthcoming book on evangelicalism (and an essay on the two evangelicalisms)
2011.03.24 The New Fundamentalism
2011.03.29 Division in the evangelical house
2011.04.01 The Word Made Fresh: A Call for a Renewal of the Evangelical Spirit
2011.05.11 When did evangelicalism start to go wrong (right)?
2011.05.25 Context is everything in understanding people (including me)
2011.06.08 A wonderful new book about Fundamentalism
Grenz: Theology
“Every Christian is a theologian. Whether consciously or unconsciously, each person of faith embraces a belief system. And each believer, whether in a deliberate manner or merely implicitly, reflects on the content of these beliefs and their significance for Christian life” (pg. 1).
“Theology, then, is the task of the faith community; it is a community act. Theology is the Christian community reflecting on and articulating the faith of the people who have encountered God in God’s activity as focused in the history of Jesus of Nazareth and who therefore seek to live as the people of God in the contemporary world….Christian theology is the reflection on and articulation of the belief structure that gives identity to the Christian people.” (pg. 8).
–Stanley J. Grenz, Theology for the Community of God.
Macchia: The Self-Giving Love of God
“God has determined from all eternity to be the God who gives of Godself and takes the other into the embrace of the divine communion. This God is the self-giving Father, Son, and Spirit, a circle of love that seeks to indwell creation. Genesis 1-2 shows that this God creates by reaching into the void in order to bring life into being, life that is graced abundantly by being made to be the dwelling place of the Spirit. Creation finds fulfillment in new creation and the divine indwelling through Christ as the one who imparts the Spirit. In Christ as the man of the Spirit, God reaches down into the abyss of God-forsakenness in order to open creation to the gift of the Spirit, the gift of divine pardon and justice in the very image of the Son. Creation has always lived from God even in its captivity to sin and death. For God to abandon the creation is to abandon Godself as Creator. God does not relinquish divine lordship and will uphold the honor of that lordship by overcoming evil and death with self-giving love.”
–Frank D. Macchia, Justified in the Spirit, 183-184.
