This picture is an image of a planet orbiting another star. Way cool. And theologically perhaps way interesting.
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Month: February 2009
The shallow character of many strategies for renewal [of the Church] is revealed just to the extent that the resulting churches cannot understand how Christians might face persecutions. This is particularly a problem in America, where Christians cannot imagine how being a Christian might put them in tension with the American way of life. This is as true for Christians on the left as it is for Christians on the right. Both mistakenly assume, often in quite similar ways, that freedom is a necessary condition for discipleship.
— Stanley Hauerwas, Commentary on Matthew 13.
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Pete Rollins Denies the Resurrection
How sad. Or is it? Go to Everyday Liturgy to find out. Great stuff!
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The Argument Sketch
This Monty Python sketch should be required viewing for bloggers, lawyers, and theologians:
This is an excellent, accessible report from Theos and the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.
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Bird on Beale on Inerrancy
Michael Bird critiques Greg Beale’s formulation of inerrancy. Bird’s most important points, I think, are about the phenomena and genres of scripture. Beale and others who insist on a rationalistic definition of inerrancy cannot handle phenomena and genre issues without a priori strong-arming and unsustainable mental gymnastics — at least not without in practice violating the very notion of inerrancy they supposedly hold. (Check out Beale’s excellent commentary on Revelation and try to explain how his amillennial view — which seems sensible to me — and explain to me how its use of apocalyptic as a genre differs from Pete Enns’ reference to ancient near eastern literature that parallels the OT).