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Here are my notes on Exclusion and Embrace which I’m reading again in light of the Emergent Theological Conversation with Miroslav Volf in a couple of weeks. —IntroductionThe Cross at the Centerp.22 For Moltmann, God’s solidarity is revealed through his suffering on the Cross. God is for the weak and the oppressed. But what about […]

Here are a couple of interesting reviews of Hardt/Negri’s Multitude. The first is over at Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and is a fair summary of the book concluding with a mild questioning of the ontology of the multitude based in a “strong event.” Great introduction if you haven’t and/or won’t ever read the […]

From the first chapter of Speech and Theology. Here are a sting of quotes with my comments interspersed as a summary of the Introductory chapter of Speech and Theology, a great book I’m reading through (James K. A. Smith is a Reformed Evangelical writing in the Radical Orthodoxy series). (If you are the type of […]

James K.A. Smith, in Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation, agues for an incarnational account of language as formal indication (younger Hiedgger) through praise and confession (Augustine) in order to provide a non-violent (conceptual, linguistic, imminent) means of speaking of God (who is transcendent). I want to affirm this. But it also […]

I preached (and organized worship) this last week, so I was bit out of time for blogging. But I have still been reading. Here is the short of it. A bit ago over at generousorthodoxy we were talking about objectivity and truth, and it turned toward phenomenology, and Ken Archer’s great post on Husserl. After […]

“Not empiricism and yet realism in philosophy, that is the hardest thing.” RFM VI S. 23. Below is a summary reflection on Brad Kallenberg’s Ethics as Grammar: Changing the Postmodern Subject, particularly in regard to the above quote from Wittgenstein. These four propositions are Kallenberg’s attempt at showing W.’s pedagogical spiral of conceptions from primitive […]

Just wanted to let everyone know about a great new blogger (yes, I’m partial, he’s my pastor). David M. Fitch is now blogging over at the great giveaway, which is also the title of his new book, which really is fantastic, and I’m not just saying that. It is the best new book coming out. […]

this is from a larger paper I’m working that explores Augustine’s Eucharistic theology and its relation to politics. this is an introductory summary of people/multitude as hardt/negri see it. i will then move on to describe how the Eucharistic community enters into ethical/political practices that move beyond these two options. It is still however a […]

Posted below is part of a presentation I gave at the Ekklesia Conference last summer concerning the possible relationship between the Emerging Church and the Ekklesia Project. I’m reposting it because of an interesting conversation over at generous orthodoxy. For those in the Emerging Conversation or others who either use or dispise the phrase “counter-culture” […]

Now I would call myself part of the Emerging Church Conversation (whatever that is) and recently there has been quite a bit of conversation around Hauerwas and Stout. And while I have yet to work through Democracy and Tradition, it have heard from several at Princeton that Stout was not attempting to privatize religion and […]