John Milbank, Slavoj Žižek, and Creston Davis, Paul’s New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology (Brazos Press, 2010). Reviewed by Maxwell Kennel Maxwell Kennel is a student in Philosophy and Rhetoric & Professional Writing at the University of Waterloo Ontario, Canada. His research interests include the continental philosophy of religion, speculative realism, […]
Thomas previously gave a meditation on why title the blog “Justice Outside the City.” Here are a few thoughts of my own on the title. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968. A year to the day before King was killed, he gave a speech at Riverside Church: “Beyond Vietnam — A Time to […]
George Nolfi’s recently released film (March 2011), The Adjustment Bureau, has brought the philosophical-theological question of free-will to the big screen in an engaging way. Based on the short story, Adjustment Team (by Philip K. Dick), The Adjustment Bureau tells the story of David Norris (Matt Damon) and Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) – two driven […]
Doug Frank. A Gentler God: Breaking Free of the Almighty in the Company of the Human Jesus. Eugene, OR. Wipf & Stock, 2010. $22.40. I must confess, at the outset, that I know Dr. Doug Frank. I was a student in the Oregon Extension program he cofounded in southern Oregon and I have […]
Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke University, is an ex-bricklayer, lover of four-letter words, author of the recent memoir Hannah’s Child, and was named “America’s Best Theologian” by Time Magazine in 2001–which proves that the people at Time never actually bothered to read Stanley. Silly journalists. Hauerwas has published an embarrassing […]
Steven Knowles, Beyond Evangelicalism: The Theological Methodology of Stanley J. Grenz (Ashgate, 2010). Reviewed by Jonathan Heaps Jonathan Heaps has an MA in Philosophy from Boston College and lives in a small intentional Christian community in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a peculiarity worth noting that Stephen Knowles’ overview and critique of Stanley […]
Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend is still one of my favorite one-shots’ of all time. I’ve tried and tried to craft some deft theological spin on it. I’ve failed every time. At the end of the day, it very well may be Morrison just being Morrison. You know, ripping on the world for not being […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw] I hope the state isn’t paying attention.
It is not impossible to go out and find pop music with a distinctly Christian message. The Contemporary Christian Music scene has plenty of artists who are doing just that. The medium however can be somewhat confusing. The sound of many songs seem drawn explicitly from the Top 40 list. It seems Christians want to […]