Francis I offers this helpful summary of the task of theologians and the role of “secular” scholarship in the church: The “task of exegetes and theologians to help ‘the judgment of the Church to mature.’ The other sciences also help to accomplish this, each in its own . . . . Continue Reading »
God, Francis I writes in Evangelii Gaudium , “is for ever young and a constant source of newness.” And this means that the church needs to be prepare for continual refreshment and renewal: “With this newness he is always able to renew our lives and our communities, and even if the . . . . Continue Reading »
A lot of our happiness is outside our control, a University of Minnesota research project concludes. In that portion that we do control, four factors stand out: faith, family, community, and work. Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute finds the last the most surprising: “Popular . . . . Continue Reading »
I summarize Barth’s profound meditations on the incarnation at the Trinity House site. . . . . Continue Reading »
“What are you doing here? What do you want?” Sarah Cassidy (Neve Campbell) asks Alex (William H. Macy), conscience-stricken scion of a family of contract killers, in 2000 film Panic .”You,” Alex answers. “Then what?” Sarah asks. It’s a great question. And . . . . Continue Reading »
Sayyid Qutb became something of a household name when he was identified as the intellectual inspiration behind al Qaeda. James Toth’s Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual gives a portrait of the man and his thought. In his TLS review of Toth, Robert Irwin notes . . . . Continue Reading »
Randy Schekman won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine this year, but, according to the Economist , he used the moment in the spotlight “to announce that the laboratory he runs at the University of California, Berkeley, will boycott what he describes as ‘luxury . . . . Continue Reading »
Wright ( Paul and the Faithfulness of God ) doesn’t think Paul addresses ordo salutis questions directly, but he still attempts to tease out what Paul might have said on the subject: “First, the spirit works through the proclamation of the gospel. This powerful work of the spirit upon . . . . Continue Reading »
James Hamilton answers in his terrific What Is Biblical Theology?: A Guide to the Bible’s Story, Symbolism, and Patterns : Biblical theology is “the interpretive perspective of the biblical writers (15). This includes the way later writers interpret and reapply earlier Scriptures, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Phones depend on locatability. Adam Fisher reports in the NYT that Google’s next step is to make everything locatble: “All of our stuff will know where it is and that awareness will imbue the real world with some of the power of the virtual. Your house keys will tell you that theyre . . . . Continue Reading »
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