During Pres. Obama’s first year in office, he testified that Reinhold Niebuhr was his favorite theologian. R. Niebuhr is of course famous, in part, because of his writings on “Christian Realism.” I am under the impression that the vast majority of American Christians live under the Christian Realist moniker without ever having heard of Reinhold […]
James Davison Hunter. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. 368 pages. $20.12 hardcover (Amazon). It’s hard to resist the spectacle of the Wachowski brothers’ film Speed Racer. Their visual evocation of a kind of live-action anime hovers and […]
In this article, Dr. Raschke addresses the crisis in theological education brought on by the rapid deinstitutionalization and deprofessionalization of Christianity; he suggests how theological education should re-imagine itself in a postmodern context.