Well, I got to see my first, real live copy of Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy this week–in the bookstore at here Regent College in Vancouver. (I’m out here teaching a two-week course, which has been delightful.) As usual, Eerdmans has done a great job of design–I think it’s really sharp. They’ve…
If I were “emergent” (if “emergent” still were), I’d hook my wagon to the much-discussed “Provisional Theses” of Kerr, Siggelkow, and Doerge as the (anti-)ecclesiology we’ve been waiting for. Because whereas Caputo’s theology of the event comes with the cost of a low christology, the “apocalyptic” ecclesiology of Kerr et. al. gives you an anti-Catholic,…
Oscar Wilde “parodied his own love of limited editions by declaring his intention to bring out The Sphinx in an edition of just three copies: ‘one for myself, one for the British Museum, and one for Heaven. I have some doubts,’ he added, ‘about the British Museum.’” ~Thomas Wright, Built of Books: How Reading Defined…
Some hilarious cartoons in the New Yorker that just arrived, but this one also doubles as an exercise in critical ecclesiology:
Kelsey’s Eccentric Existence is, I’ll admit, quite daunting (weighing in at 1092 pages in two volumes). I fear that might discourage people from actually reading it. So in a footnote to the article I mentioned yesterday, I suggest the following reading program for those who might be intimidated: If I were crafting a multiyear reading…
While I will have much more to say about this in an upcoming review essay in Christian Scholar’s Review, my enthusiasm for David Kelsey’s Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology requires a more immediate outlet. So here’s a little snippet of praise from the forthcoming essay: David Kelsey’s magnum opus, Eccentric Existence is a stunning work…