How strange. Just last week, while remembering the influence of Clark Pinnock on my theological pilgrimage, I off-handedly remarked that “Donald Bloesch is another figure who actually plays a towering role in my early formation, though I don’t think anybody could know that from the written record.” And now, upon returning from vacation, I just…
I recently received my copies of Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences, the book I co-edited with Amos Yong (published by Indiana University Press). Gathering an interdisciplinary range of scholars from the sciences and humanities, I hope the volume signals a new stage of maturity for Pentecostal scholarship, without that meaning…
OK, this is probably the fruit of a humid Friday afternoon and too much coffee at The Sparrows. It’s also probably completely obnoxious and delusional. But I just found myself sketching out the architecture and content for what could be an iPhone app related to Desiring the Kingdom. (I think I was inspired by Gary…
As I noted earlier, I’m in a period of thinking through issues of genre and style in theological and philosophical writing, and thus I’m labeling my blog reflections on these matters “Notes toward a new genre.” My first post generated more email responses than usual, so I’m encouraged that others are also thinking through these…
[Update: My apologies that the original feed listed the dates as 1950-2005; I inadvertently plugged in Grenz’s dates.] Many of us have intellectual debts that never surface, as it were. They are not the sorts of debts that one could track in the footnotes of our work. They are more submerged and subterranean than that….
In Phenomenology of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty emphasizes the bodily nature of our language, ultimately claiming, “Words have a physiognomy.” I was reminded of this when I read Ian McGilchrist’s recent reflection, “Four Walls,” in the July/August 2010 issue of Poetry: Poetry engraves itself in the brain: it doesn’t just slip smoothly over the cortex as…