Towards a New Missional Mapping?
Jason Clark will be presenting this recent digest of missional theology later in November at 'Seek the Welfare of the City'. We thought that it would be helpful for you all to engage it here. Is there any pointing mapping the missional church? Is there a future for Evangelicalism? Let us know. Towards a New Missional Mapping? Read More
Reflections on the Summer of 2010, by Daniel A. Siedell
Reflections on the Summer of 2010 Daniel A. Siedell Classes start next week. As I hustle to put together course syllabi for the fall semester my work this summer has forced me to reconsider the contours of my academic vocation. We academics live in bubble. We live in a world in which seminar rooms, the lecture hall, faculty meetings, academic conferences, and "close... Read More
Specters of Rage in an Age of Change – Sloterdijk and the “End” of the Postmodern
Multiple Specters Perhaps we can adapt just one more time Marx's well-known and overadapted opening to The Communist Manifesto that a "specter is stalking" us. It was this same "specter" that Derrida back in the mid-1980s adapted in Specters of Marx to rejuvenate what by then was his already aging project of deconstruction to produce first the "political",... Read More
Do we really get Romans? A little Badiou and Žižek can help.
It's been said that reformations and revolutions in Christianity begin with a re-reading of Romans. That is certainly true of the Protestant Reformation with Luther's epoch-shaking insight into the meaning of the phrase "the righteousness of God." It is true as well of Barth's commentary The Epistle to the Romans, which in the words of a Catholic... Read More
Frederick Douglass on the Economics of Human Stock and “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
The following post comes from Cynthia Nielsen who is a PhD candidate at the University of Dallas and blogs at percaritatem.com. By the shedding of whose blood have we become one of the wealthiest nations in the world? To begin an answer, why not turn to one whose back bore many a bloody lash for the sake of the so-called “American dream.” In his 1852 oration,... Read More
Symposium: The Politics of Discipleship – Part 1
Today we begin our three-part symposium on Graham Ward's new book, The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens. Because our contributions for this symposium are longer than some of our other chapter-by-chapter symposiums, I'm making the papers available as pdfs, with a little teaser below. Our first contribution is from Ronald Kuipers, Senior... Read More
An impression
In God, Death, and Time, Emmanuel Levinas claims that the immanent experience of a transcendent God amounts to a reversal and referral of the desirable (God) to the nondesirable (the Other). This correlation results in a mission to approach and engage the Other, especially as the Other is figured in the needy, the oppressed, and the... Read More
