Category Archives: theologians and other Christian writers
Puritan and Pietist contending within evangelicalism
Roger Olson, Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Theology. (Baker Academic, 2007) In outlining the difference between conservative and postconservative evangelical theology, Olson makes a fascinating proposal. For him, evangelicalism has always faced the challenge and rewards of … Continue reading
‘We do not endorse the subject matter and stock it [100+ copies] purely as a service…’
Interesting disclaimer on the website of one Australian Christian bookstore concerning Love Wins: Despite stocking it only as a service, there are quite a few copies available: I haven’t noticed any other books with a warning like this on their … Continue reading
Filed under Rob Bell
[Book Review] Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution / John Yoder
Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution John Howard Yoder; Theodore J. Koontz and Andy Alexis-Baker, editors. Brazos Press, 2009. Reviewed by Nathan Hobby. Like Preface to Theology (2003), this book is the material for a unit Yoder taught, edited … Continue reading
Filed under book review, John Howard Yoder, pacificism
Catching up with Yoder: An Introduction
John Howard Yoder’s ideas are catching on as the rest of the world catches up to him. Yoder was always reframing theological conversations, insisting we had the wrong assumptions and the wrong questions. He has important things to say about … Continue reading
Filed under John Howard Yoder
Yoder the Sinner
Back in December, I edited a special edition of On The Road focusing on ‘Catching up with Yoder‘, as in the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder. I’ve been meaning to put up articles I wrote in it ever since, and … Continue reading
Filed under John Howard Yoder
Love Wins: A Review
Love Wins generated heated denunciations before it was even published. It is Jesus-filled, hopeful, and inspiring – and just as the conservatives warned, it points toward a (Christocentric) universalism – without quite unequivocally endorsing it. In typical Rob Bell style, … Continue reading
Filed under book review, eschatology, Rob Bell
‘Love Wins’ – the start of an evangelical debate about universalism?
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/02/26/rob-bell-universalist/ (1119 comments and counting!) Bell’s book isn’t out till the end of the month, but already it’s generating buzz. ‘Love wins’ – everyone ends up reconciled with God. Hell is emptied. Apparently that’s the substance of his book. I … Continue reading
Filed under eschatology, Rob Bell
[Sermon] The Holiness Tradition
Mt Hawthorn Community Church, 9 January 2010 We are working our way slowly through a series based on Richard Foster’s book Streams of Living Water. Let me reorientate you to the idea of the streams. Foster describes six streams or … Continue reading
Filed under history, Richard Foster, sermons, spirituality
Yoder on Peace and War in the Middle Ages
John Howard Yoder’s Christian Attitudes to War, Peace and Revolution (Brazos, 2009) is a posthumously published, edited version of the notes Yoder distributed for his course in the subject. In chapter 8 ‘The Career of the Just War’ and chapter … Continue reading
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The Office and The Gospel of Matthew: Venting and Truthtelling
Yesterday I watched an episode of The Office where the inept boss, Michael, discovers that all his staff have been complaining about each other to the Human Resources officer. The HR officer takes down some notes and files it away; … Continue reading
Filed under Body Politics, John Howard Yoder
