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A Grammar of Christian Faith
A Grammar of Christian Faith is a two-volume set that aims to confront the widespread disarray in the language and practices of Christian faith today. As a 'grammar,' it explains how Christian faith provides special ways of speaking and acting that make sense of human life by giving it…
Speaking of God: An Epistolary Exchange with Stephen Long in 2010
Professor D. Stephen Long, theologian at Marguette University, published Speaking of God: Theology, Language, and Truth [Eerdmans, 2009] in which, among many other controversial explorations, made a few critical comments about my A Grammar of Christian Faith. In 2010 we had a lively e-mail exchange, which is included herein. It should prove interesting to persons concerned with the huge disagreements among Christians in the last two hundred years concerning appropriate and truthful God-talk, including issues concerning Trinitarian and Christological conceptualities and the role of metaphysical considerations, as well as some reminiscing about the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the so-called ‘Yale School’ of Post-Liberal Theology. Extended discussions of classical theism, process theism, and other movements and persons in contemporary theology are explored and debated.
Professor Long, an ordained Methodist minister, previously taught systematic theology at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary. He has published several other important books in theology and ethics: Divine Economy: Theology and the Market [Routledge Press, 2000]; The Goodness of God: Theology, Church and the Social Order [Brazos Press, 2001]; John Wesley’s Moral Theology: The Quest for God and Goodness [Kingswood Press, 2005]; Theology and Culture [Cascade Books,…
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Notes on Sheldon Wolin on Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
Sheldon Wolin is Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University and is the author of the magisterial work on Western political theory, Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation is Western Political Thought, expanded edition, 2004. As the title of this present work indicates—Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism—Wolin is deeply critical of political developments in the U.S. in recent decades, but especially exemplified in the War on Terror and the Presidency of George W. Bush. Important Question: does Wolin’s diagnostic analysis and critique throw light on the present deep conflicts in American political life?
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Observant Notes on a Stroll with “Justice” and “Salvation”
A series of notes and comments intending to unravel some confusions that haunt the discourses and practices of not only Christians about justice, especially God's justice, but the various political social orders in which they have lived and now live.
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A King Riding on Colt toward a Cross
A Palm Sunday sermon preached at First Christian Church, Tulsa, OK, March 28, 2010, as part of The Roy Griggs Lectureship.
A King Riding on a Colt toward a Cross
Mark 11.1-11
The Scripture we have just read from the Gospel according to Mark is one of only two Gospel narratives in the NT—the other being John—that has Jesus entering Jerusalem on Sunday of the week at the end of which he will be crucified and then raised from the dead on the following Sunday. Mark’s account of Jesus’ entry appears to be triumphal in character and style. Jesus instructs his disciples to go ahead of him and obtain a colt upon which he will ride as he enters Jerusalem. While this account of securing the colt may seem odd and confused, Mark intends for us—his readers—to hear the echoes of the Hebrew prophet Zechariah who wrote:
“Rejoice greatly…O daughter Jerusalem! [A sermon preached at the ordination of Edward Mulligan into the Priesthood of the Episcopal Church on January 21, 2007 in the Salisbury School Chapel, Salisbury Connecticut.] The Priestly Ministry of Teaching the Faith Ordination Sermon for Edward B. Mulligan IV Jan. 21, 2007 Ephesians 4.7, 11-16 But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in…
Lo your king comes to you;…
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