When I read J. Kameron Carter’s commanding Race: A Theological Account, I had just a twinge of concern that his senior colleague at Duke, Willie James Jennings, had been “scooped” just a bit. Jennings began work along these lines back in the early 1990s, but then he got swept up into administrative duties at Duke…
We’ve set up a Facebook page for Letters to a Young Calvinist at, surprisingly enough, https://www.facebook.com/LettersToaYoungCalvinist. Since the book really aims to be a primer and invitation to a wider conversation, we’ll use this Facebook page as a way to highlight other resources, point to relevant conversations, and hopefully host some discussion of the book…
Letters to a Young Calvinist has now been released and should be available at booksellers near you. I received my copies a couple of weeks ago and was jazzed to see it in print. Brazos has done a great job creating a cool little book that is accessible and approachable in its format and presentation….
A great New Yorker cartoon that well captures the posturing of Q&A at academic conferences.
A few years back, Eugene McCarraher’s review of Terry Eagleton’s After Theory posed the question: “After Theory, Theology?” It was a brilliant review of an excellent book and got to the heart of matters in the current state of “theory” (that strange, amorphous mix of continental philosophy marshaled across a range of disciplines in order…
Over at his NYTimes “Evaluations” blog, I appreciated Ross Douthat’s engagement with my “off the cuff” piece on the Pew Survey on Religious Knowledge (also noted at the Atlantic‘s “Daily Dish” blog). While he’s sympathetic to my second thesis, Douthat raises a fair point by asking: Can one be a serious practitioner of Catholic Christianity…