Barry Taylor writes about “fluid theology” in a recent Out of Ur blog, an excerpt from the new book, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope. His point is difficult to make out, but, as far as I can tell, he is calling Christians to accept the potential dissolution of the institutional church in favor of a [...]
In this post, Scot McKnight publishes a letter from a pastor struggling with some Christian leaders’ reactions to the “emerging church,” and an extremely lively conversation has ensued. I am not going to comment on the post itself, but many of the comments talk about “the” emerging church or “the” evangelical church. This is a [...]
In reading God’s Rivals, I became very frustrated with Origen. On the one hand, we have a legitimately brilliant theologian and pastor, a la Bonhoeffer. As McDermott writes, “By night he studied the Bible and by day he prepared his students for martyrdom.” On the other hand, Origen was quite comfortable engaging in wild speculations [...]
