Category Archives: Rob Bell
‘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
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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
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‘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
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Ben Witherington on Rob Bell
New Testament scholar Ben Witherington has excellent reviews of Velvet Elvis, Sex God and the first ten Nooma DVDs. His main criticism of Bell is some sloppy exegesis and some misunderstandings of the New Testament context. Witherington is very convincing! … Continue reading
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Nooma DVD 012 – Matthew : a short review
This Nooma sees Rob Bell in sombre mode; he doesn’t reach those heights of joyful intensity I saw in the previous Nooma I watched – Breathe – instead, he talks about grief and loss. He tells the story of a … Continue reading
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Interpreting the Bible in Velvet Elvis: binding and loosing
From an Anabaptist perspective, what excites me most about Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis is the way in “Movement two: Yoke” it talks about using ‘binding and loosing’ to interpret the Bible together. In Jesus’ world, it was assumed you had as … Continue reading
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Eschatology in Velvet Elvis
One of the things that Rob Bell touches on in Velvet Elvis is eschatology. He does a great job of explaining the ‘new heavens, new earth’ idea, countering the popular misconception that the afterlife involves being sucked off to a … Continue reading
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Velvet Elvis: repainting the Christian faith by Rob Bell
What is it? It’s difficult to categorise. The subtitle says it best, probably – an attempt to repaint what Christian faith means for believers in the 21st century. Bell’s perspective is an exciting neo-evangelicalism. He has an orthodox faith, but … Continue reading
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Devouring theology
Earlier this year I fell back into my old trap of devouring theology, and I can sense it happening again. I was hungry for books on house church, mission and emerging church. I read about six books on these topics … Continue reading
Tom Wright’s Living Faith – a disappointment
http://orders.koorong.com/search/details.jhtml?code=0801065623 We bought these DVD talks introducing Christianity thinking it would be a great evangelism tool – an Alpha Course with better theology! The problem is in the presentation. With an eye on the US evangelical market, the producers have … Continue reading
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