Despite the Utopian hypes, Fred Turner points out ( From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism , 2-3) that there is nothing inherently revolutionary or leveling about computer technology. Sure, we all have our own devices, but . . . . Continue Reading »
When Twitter went public recently, it was valued at $24 billion, with revenue of $535 million. 300 billion tweets have been sent since Twitter began, and that number increases by half a billion a day. What’s curious about this, James Surowieki writes in The New Yorker, is that Twitter uses . . . . Continue Reading »
Nathan Heller explores the “new corporatism” touted by Apple, Google, Amazon and others in The New Yorker : These companies are “proud models of novel efficiency, and yet, in the same breath, they claim that efficiency isnt their real priority. Brad Stone says that Bezos touts his . . . . Continue Reading »
Kirk Davis Swinehart reviews Denise Spellberg’s Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders in the NYTBR this week. Spellberg “”traces the partial origins of American religious toleration to a single day in 1765 when Jefferson, then studying law at the College of . . . . Continue Reading »
The final installment of James Jordan’s essay on “restoring the office of woman in the church” is up at the Trinity House web site. . . . . Continue Reading »
At the outset of his Demonstratio Evangelica , Eusebius makes a case for the limitations of the Mosaic system and the universal applicability of the new covenant in Christ. The case has two remarkable features: First, it is an utterly pragmatic case; second, it is a case made from Torah. Pragmatism . . . . Continue Reading »
Perichoresis was originally a Christological notion, describing the mutual penetration-without-mixture of the divine and human natures in Christ. It of course became primarily a concept in Trinitarian theology, but, according to Verna Harrison, in Maximus it was understood as an anthropological and . . . . Continue Reading »
Gregory of Nyssa rarely uses the specific language of perichoresis , but Daniel Stramara argues in a 1998 Vigiliae Christianae article that he uses different language to make very similar claims about the communion that is the Triune God. Specifically, he uses the words periphero and anakuklesis , . . . . Continue Reading »
NT Wright, once again, explicates the “shape of justification” ( Paul and the Faithfulness of God) , setting it interestingly in the context of Paul’s doctrine of election, reshaped by the work of the Spirit. That perhaps another day. For now, an observation on Wright’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Marilynne Robinson reviews Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal in the NYTBR . At one point O’Connor thanks God for making her his instrument, and Robinson ponders: “Every writer wonders where fictional ideas come from. The best of them often appear very abruptly after a . . . . Continue Reading »
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