Posted in martyrdom, theology, tagged martyrdom on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Martyrdom is the only way to witness to a truth that is not ours. The witness to human truth cannot properly even be called witness, for it does not exist outside of itself. Human truth is self-generated, and therefore must be self-defended. The greatest witness to the fact that God’s truth exists outside of and [...]
Posted in books, political theology, theology, tagged books, Ethics, herald press, historical theology, martyrdom, political theology, polyglossia, tripp york on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Tripp York, The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom (Scottsdale, PA: Herald, 2007), 200 pp.
In this review, I wish to second the back cover endorsement given to this book by William Cavanaugh: “I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the relevance of martyrdom to contemporary discipleship.” This book will win few converts, and [...]
Posted in Augustine, Karl Marx, theology, tagged Alienation, Augustine, Marx, Religion, theology on March 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
An interesting aspect Karl Marx’s 1844 Manuscripts is that it’s much celebrated central theme of the alienation or estrangement of labor is actually Marx’s attempt to give a credible account of the fall of man. He writes.
We must avoid repeating the mistake of the political economist, who bases his explanations on some imaginary primordial [...]
Posted in books, pacifism, theology, tagged chris k. huebner, herald, pacifism, polyglossia, theology, yoder on February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chris K. Huebner, A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, and Identity (Scottsdale, PA: Herald, 2006), 249 pp.
A former doctoral student of Stanley Hauerwas at Duke, and current Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Huebner is a genuine rising star in among Anabaptist Theologians. Along with [...]
Posted in Biblical Theology, Eugene McCarraher, human rights, racism, slavery, social justice, theology, tagged bible, mccarraher, noll, race, racism, scripture, slavery, theology on February 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In a review for Commonweal of Mark Noll’s book, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, Eugene McCarraher lays the blame for the institution of chattel Slavery in America at the core of Protestantism, the doctrine of sola scriptura. Ultimately, he affirms a reading of the Bible as a document that reflects the oppressive biases [...]
Posted in J. Kameron Carter, quotes, theology on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
J. Kameron Carter has been an exciting discovery for me lately, and I’d like to pass on a cool little essay entitled “Whiteness as a False Reality: the Baptismal Identity of ‘the Now, but Not Yet,’” which explores some of the similarities between the film The Matrix and baptism.
[Afro-Christians'] entry into Christianity was a baptismal [...]
Posted in capitalism, theology on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
My aim in this essay is to reformulate the notion of the voluntary character of the church specifically in the context of its perversion in the ideological matrix of late capitalism. In spite of the dangers of individualism, the voluntary nature of the church remains a crucial manifestation of the radically interruptive nature of the [...]
Posted in books, theology on December 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If the Torrance brothers stand for anything, it is the mediation of Christ. T.F. Torrance’s book by that title is labeled as a “devotional theology” on account of its scant academic apparatus, but it remains an extremely dense and thoroughly argued presentation of Christ’s mediatorial role between God and Man as the core of [...]
Posted in books, theology on December 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“That ain’t my culture and heritage!”
- Homer Stokes in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
[Many thanks to Eerdmans for the review copy. I've been meaning to get to this review for some time. But put it off for some time. Strange because the last review I wrote, for Ray Anderson's book, I whipped out right after [...]
Posted in Church, books, reviews, theology, tagged Church, emergent, theology on October 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Many thanks to InterVarsity Press for sending me the prolific Ray Anderson’s most recent book, An Emergent Theology for Emergent Churches (Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP, 2006). For a nice summary of the book by the author (who should be familiar to many in the blogosphere), check here.
After reading reviews by my friend Halden and [...]
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