Geoffrey Holsclaw

I’ll be back next week, hopefully with a more regular blogging schedule.

(more thoughts on time and ecclesiology prompted by Graham Ward’s Cities of God) Recently (for about 2 years now) I have raged against the motion of the Universal or Invisible Church first promoted by Augustine and later used by the reformers to justify their separation from Catholicism, and currently used (by evangelicals) to refer to […]

(i said I was going blog light, but this just popped out while I was working on something else. that’s why it’s so rough…) There is no space of cultural engagement, no place of overlapping interests, no room in the public square for the Church. The place of intersection between Church and culture is a […]

well, june is here. I have so much that I want to write about, but so little time to do it. Besides preaching twice at my church, going on a week long vacation, a good friends wedding, and preparing to speak at a week long youth retreat, I’m still trying to find time to hangout […]

What African Theologians can teach the Emerging Church —– Below are some of the preliminary notes that I’ve been preparing for a workshop I’m co-leading at this years Ekklesia Project Gathering with Scott Bader-Saye. They are still rough. Please help me think through the issues. This will also deepens my previous “Post-Constantinian Cultural Studies” post. […]

I don’t usually just link to another site, but I think this is really great post. It’s a 20 point rant against the Christian sub-culture by Adam Smith. It pretty much sums up what I think also.

– Indigenous postmodern Faith- Now, back to our initial question: How can we replace the project of relevance with the project of identity. What is the religious past and cultural present of Western Christians? a.Religious Past– coming to terms w/ our religious past, or who are we by examining both: i.De-westernizing: living beyond the encroachments […]

but I was wasting my time doing this… Which poem are you? Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold You’re probably strongly political, and a pacifist. Hey, and you’re also slightly depressing. You think a lot of things suck and are pointless. Congratulations! Click Here to Take This QuizBrought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests.

Part Two The Question of Identity: Ancient Parents and African Siblings Two test cases: Early Church Fathers and African Theologians Church Fathers– -church fathers interacted w/ both Judaism and Graeco-Roman culture. The question of Judaism concerns their religious past, seeking a dis/continuous relationship with it. So they appropriated OT and NT as the unified revelation […]

Below are some of the preliminary notes that I’ve been preparing for a workshop I’m co-leading at this years Ekklesia Project Gathering with Scott Bader-Saye. They are still rough. Please help me think through the issues. This will also deepens my previous “Post-Constantinian Cultural Studies” post. —– What African Theologians can teach the Emerging Church […]