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What Has Jerusalem to Do with Paris?: Examining Theology’s Interest in Postmodernism

Posted in Philosophy, Postmodernism, Theology, Worldviews on September 27, 2006 | 20 Comments »

So what has Christ to do with Derrida, and Jerusalem to do with Paris? That’s what I want to know. Why are so many theologians infatuated with postmodernism while so many analytic philosophers (primarily English-speaking philosophy) aren’t? To answer this question I want to start by looking at what analytic philosophers think about postmodernism and [...]

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There’s Humor in Theology 12

Posted in Church History, There's Humor in Theology on September 21, 2006 | 2 Comments »

How worn and emaciated Luther was at the time of his Reformation discovery can be gathered from a remark he himself made about his physical condition. Though still thin at the disputation in 1519, he had already begun gradually putting on weight the year before. When he returned to Wittenberg from his successful disputation in Heidelberg [...]

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Got Saved?????????

Posted in Practical Theology, Theology on September 18, 2006 | 11 Comments »

[This week's post was written by guest blogger Kevin Regal. Some of you may recognize him better as a frequent contributor to Chaos and Old Night under the handle "KWR" or "O Felix Culpa".]

Every subculture eventually develops a vocabulary that is distinctive to itself.  Sometimes this happens by the invention of new words (e.g., “groovy” or “proactive”), but more often [...]

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There’s Humor in Theology 11

Posted in Church History, There's Humor in Theology on September 11, 2006 | 4 Comments »

Luther was known for his confession that he was a sinner. He didn’t just confess that he was some generic sinner; he named his sins and confessed them in detail. This was true throughout his life both pre-conversion and post. Perhaps this penchant for being open about his sinfulness was what also lead to his transparency about [...]

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Covenants and Biblical Theology (Part 3)

Posted in Biblical Theology, Covenant Theology, Theology on September 2, 2006 | 13 Comments »

Why is Genesis 1-3 in the Bible?
What will the reader of Scripture not understand without these three chapters? The answer is: Creation and Fall, which comprises two-fourths of the Bible’s plot line (Creation-Fall-Redemption-New Creation). These chapters are essential to any biblical theology, yet they are enigmatic and difficult to understand. In this post, I intend [...]

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