So what are all us Christian pacifists who love the film Fight Club to make of the alleged fight club at John Forrest High School in Perth? (Chris Summerfield, you must have some thoughts!) The film seemed to sum up our anger at the Ikea world, at the triumph of the corporate world, and our [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 25, 2008
Political engagement: embodying the change AND speaking truth to power
Wonderful article by Jim Kumfer discussed last night at the Newbigin Group. (We didn’t get there, having locked ourselves out of the car and house as we were about to leave. D’oh.)
Kumfer uses Yoder’s Body Politics to suggest that we need to combine the approach of Shane Claibourne and Jim Wallis. Shane Claibourne and his [...]
November 17, 2008
Change?
We had an interesting conversation at our house church last night about spiritual growth. Some of us have been Christians a long time and feel like we haven’t grown at all, that we still struggle with the same sins, that our inner selves have not been conformed to Christ.
Something one person said struck a chord [...]
November 8, 2008
Boff’s JESUS CRISTO LIBERTADOR: a review
I found this review I wrote in 2002 for a Christology unit.
L.Boff, Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology of Our Time (Petropolis:Vozes, 1972) ET: P. Hughes (London: SPCK, this edn 1990; first edn Orbis: Maryknoll, 1978)
1. Introduction – Jesus Christ in 1972
Leonardo Boff’s Jesus Christ Liberator is an important Christological work. It carries with it [...]
