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Nathan Shannon/July 23, 2015

On the Nature and Possibility of So-Called Natural Theology: Comments on Swain’s Theses

Introduction The following is a response to Scott Swain’s post at Reformation21, “ Theses on Natural Theology.” But it is more than that. I take the opportunity, in interaction with …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/July 15, 2015

God After God: Jenson After Barth, Part #5

In the last post we asked if Jenson had gone beyond Barth. Has he temporalized eternity? Jenson is certainly bolder in his assertions linking eternity and time, but has he …

James J. Cassidy/July 12, 2015

Christ is All: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Karl Barth — Part 4

Thus far in this series we have looked at the life of Barth as well as begin to explore his theology as well. In particular we have shown how Christ …

James J. Cassidy/July 5, 2015

Christ is All: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Karl Barth — Part 3

This is the third part of a four part series on the life and thought of Karl Barth. After completing a brief biography, we now turn to examine his thought. …

Camden M. Bucey/July 3, 2015

Why the SCOTUS Decision on Marriage May Be Good for the Church

Tertullian is famous for saying, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church” ( Apologeticus, Chapter 50). The persecution of Christians isn’t an objectively good thing, yet in God’s …

James J. Cassidy/June 28, 2015

“Christ is All: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Karl Barth” — Part 2

In our previous post, part 1, we introduced our thesis and opened with the beginning of Barth’s life. We pick up here with his years from the beginning of his …

Erica Bucey/June 26, 2015

[Review] Melissa Kruger, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood

During the weeks and months after our first son was born, I struggled to discern my new identity as a mother. I was no longer defined by my previous role …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/June 24, 2015

God After God: Jenson After Barth, Part #4

In our last post we left two questions begging to be asked. First, how can Jenson talk about ontological truth statements in Scripture? Second, how is he able to identify …

James J. Cassidy/June 22, 2015

“Christ is All: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Karl Barth” — Part I

“Christ is All: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Karl Barth” 1 Part I Introduction and Thesis A. Introduction You are reading the first installment of …

Camden M. Bucey/June 19, 2015

On Scheduling Time for the Work of an Ecclesial Theologian

You’ll get no sympathy here, however, if you watch Netflix ten hours a week but complain you have no time to be an ecclesial theologian. At the end of the …

Nathan Shannon/June 10, 2015

Demo-Theologies: Points of Unease

Introduction To say that the history of the Western church and in particular of its theologizing has been specifically Western or White European theologizing is to state something obvious, and …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/June 5, 2015

God After God: Jenson After Barth, Part #3

By now it should be understood by the reader that for Jenson, God is the act of utterance. [1] For Jenson, as I argued in my last post, God …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/May 27, 2015

God After God: Jenson After Barth, Part #2

I stated my basic contention in the last post. It was simply this, Robert Jenson, adopting Barth’s theological notion of time and eternity and taking that understanding to its logical …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/May 19, 2015

God After God: Jenson After Barth, Part #1

When Karl Barth was once asked to comment on the reception of his theology in America, he noted that a bright young American scholar named Robert Jenson had rightly grasped …

Camden M. Bucey/May 14, 2015

The Resurrection as Somatic Transformation

Now, if there be a somatic resurrection, we can not otherwise conceive of it than as a somatic transformation. There is not a simple return of what was lost in …