topic: theology
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
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2019
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Dec
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04
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On Remembering Scripture—JOURNAL
Time to stop leaning so hard on search.
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2020
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Jan
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01
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A Decadal Kind of Change—JOURNAL
Rethinking this site — and my own vocations — as the 2010s give way to the 2020s.
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26
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Mar
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01
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03
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22
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Waiting for Communion—JOURNAL
A coronavirus reminder of our place in the time between the times.
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29
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Apr
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05
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On “Saints”—JOURNAL
Should we prepend the term to “Paul” or “Augustine”?
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May
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08
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This Week I Learned #3—JOURNAL
Less reading this week… because more composing.
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Jul
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15
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24
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An anti-culture—LIBRARY
What theology must be if it is to be healthy and fruitful as a field.
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31
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Aug
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02
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03
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Humans of Open Source↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
Chatting with Sean Chen about open source, Christian humanism, and working in public.
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Christian Theology’s Place in the University—LIBRARY
Or, John Webster cracking very wise.
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08
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13
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15
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16
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Good theology demands good theologians—LIBRARY
How spiritual formation is not mere interiority or “authenticity” but death-and-resurrection at the hand of the living God.
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Sep
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07
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All is broken and incomplete, and politics can not heal the rupture. —LIBRARY
Summarizing the basic shared commitments of all Augustinian liberals, whatever their many other differences
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19
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A Chalcedonian conceptual grammar for love and justice—LIBRARY
What if we thought of “love” and “justice” like the hypostatic union?
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28
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Politics & The Order of Love—LIBRARY
A good book, if not quite the one I hoped for.
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Finding Holy in the Suburbs—LIBRARY
A solid popular-level book — which I wish pushed just a little harder than it does.
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Oct
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Nov
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Dec
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01
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02
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03
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2021
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Jan
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Mar
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Apr
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04
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“…our enemies, sin, the curse and death, are beaten.”—LIBRARY
“If you have heard the Easter message, you can no longer run around with a tragic face and lead the humourless existence of a man who has no hope.”
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06
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Three considerations on reading the Bible—LIBRARY
Webster expounding/expanding on Bonhoeffer and Barth.
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22
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May
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Jul
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Aug
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22
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Praising God—LIBRARY
Two quotes from a John Webster sermon of the same title: on worship, and the one worshipped.
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28
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Theological Anthropology Comes First—JOURNAL
You don’t get a healthy politics if you answer the question “What is a human?” incorrectly.
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Sep
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04
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05
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…revelation disturbs —LIBRARY
‘It is “an interruption which addresses us.”’
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07
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God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian
Theology – Volume I: God and the Works of God —LIBRARYThe first of two volumes of collected essays and papers by John Webster. Very, very scholarly.
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Oct
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Nov
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Dec
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16
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“I cannot not be a creature made and called by God’s love”—LIBRARY
The incredibly good news about us of which Christ is the guarantee.
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30
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2022
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Jan
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Feb
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04
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A question of authority—LIBRARY
On Brad East’s approach to Scripture and Tradition.
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Aug
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14
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The Lord’s Prayer—ELSEWHERE
The manuscript for a sermon on Luke
11:1 – 13.
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Sep
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02
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22
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The Great Unmooring↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
At Mere O, on Richard Sennett’s The Corrosion of Character and Warzel and Petersen’s Out of Office, on work.
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Nov
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2023
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Apr
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