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 […]
Geoffrey Holsclaw gives a brief history of social impetus for capitalism and considers the Eucharist as a true paradigm for economic exchange.
Over the last several years of studying contemporary (continental) philosophy and theology and the theology of Augustine, I’ve noticed several recurring themes, or rather, inversion of themes between contemporary theological battles and those in which Augustine was involved. Of course these inversion only makes sense from a broadly Augustinian point of view (which you can […]
I want to continue the conversation (really just questioning) begun by James K.A. Smith between an ecclesiocentric view of mission and the “apocalyptic theology” of Halden, Kerr, and Siggelkow. (James commented on the Preamble). Really, I’m not offering a defense of an ecclesiocentric understanding of mission, but offering critical questions springing from “Kingdom-World-Church: Some Provisional […]
Frederiek Depoortere, Badiou and Theology (Philosophy and Theology). New York: T&T Clark International, 2009. Below is my review of Depoortere’s recent book on Badiou. For a less favorable review see Clayton Crocket’s over at NDPR (he sees it as incoherent, but I think this broadly has to do with differing theological outlooks). I would be […]
I want to put on the table some recent inversions of fundamentalism expressed under the guise of postmodern re-alignments. By fundamentalism I’m referring to the Christian fundamentalism created in the wake of the modernist debates in the US around the 1920 (a fun genealogy is here), not fundamentalism in ‘general’ if there is such of […]
Current discussions in the church—from emergent “postmodern” congregations to mainline “missional” congregations—are increasingly grappling with philosophical and theoretical questions related to postmodernity. In fact, it could be argued that developments in postmodern theory (especially questions of “post-foundationalist” epistemologies) have contributed to the breakdown of former barriers between evangelical, mainline, and Catholic faith communities. Postliberalism—a related […]
Rachel K. Ward is a writer based in Paris. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the European Graduate School where she was a student of Jean Baudrillard. She has written for The New York Times, Art Review, and others and is author of All for Nothing (Atropos Press, 2010). You can find more at rachelkward.com.