Posted in Luther, america, fiction, grace, herman melville on April 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Arthur McGill, in a phenomenal book entitled Life and Death: An American Theology, makes the argument that the ethos of America at large is marked by a fatal need to extinguish all visible signs of death from its existence. This, for him, is motivated by an ultimate fear of death, wherein one believes it [...]
Posted in flannery o'connor, grace, sin on April 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Ben Myers has just posted an interesting reflection on the theology of grace in the music of Tom Waits. What he points out is that when we take seriously the unconditional character of grace, we see it gracing the most ungracious sinners: whores, thieves, etc. In the comments, there was brought out the [...]
Posted in grace, multnomah, sin, theology on March 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
For the first time at Multnomah (outside of Domani’s lit classes, that is), I’m in a class where we are actually given some space to think theologically in our assignments. The class is Seminar and Doctrine, and the assignments are called doctrinal statements. The following is what I came up with in regards [...]
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