by Steve Thomason | Jul 30, 2013 | Books - Missional Church
Kelsey, David H. To Understand God Truly: What’s Theological About a Theological School. 1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992. An Appreciative Response to David Kelsey’s book To Understand God Truly | by Steve Thomason | A Term...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 30, 2013 | Books - Suburban Studies
Teaford, Jon C. The American Suburb: The Basics. New York: Routledge, 2008. The Author Jon C. Teaford is Professor Emeritus of Urban History at Purdue University. I was not able to find much biographical information about him. However, his students rated him...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 30, 2013 | Books - Epistemology/Hermeneutics, How Do We Think?
Introduction Hans-Georg Gadamer was born in 1900 and died in 2002. One could say that he was truly a man of the 20th century. This is fitting since his life and work demonstrated the transitional nature of the 20th century as the academic disciplines made a turn from...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 26, 2013 | Books - Epistemology/Hermeneutics
Tanner, Kathryn. Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology Guides to Theological Inquiry. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997. A Paper I Wrote on This Book A Presentation and Reflective Response to Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology by Kathryn Turner...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 22, 2013 | Sketches, Youth Ministry
We just finished our Youth Mission trip to the Wind River reservation in Wyoming with Youthworks. It was a great trip! This is the little sketchbook I kept to chronicle the trip.
by Steve Thomason | Jul 10, 2013 | Books - Epistemology/Hermeneutics, How Do We Think?
Habermas, Jürgen. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. The Author – Jürgen Habermas Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas’s work focuses on the...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 8, 2013 | Animation
I’ve been working on an animation project for the last couple weeks. It is getting intense now. I hope to have it finished before we leave for the mission trip on Saturday. The project is a six-minute edutainment piece on the peopled nature of hermeneutics for a...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 3, 2013 | Books - Missional Church, The Missional Church
Bevans, Stephen B., and Roger Schroeder. Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today American Society of Missiology Series ; No. 30. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004. Authors Stephen Bevans is Louis J. Luzbetak, S.V.D., Professor of Mission and Culture. He...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 2, 2013 | sermons2013
Text: Proverbs 1:1-7 and Luke 6:47-49 listen to the audio Words of wisdom. Our culture is obsessed with them. Look at the bookstore and noticed how large the self-help section is. There is a book about how to succeed in just about everything. Five steps to losing...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 30, 2013 | Personal Updates
My life is currently equal parts studying for comprehensive exams and church work. Last week I spent three solid days (seriously, until 9 or 10 at night) in planning meetings and youth meetings! All good stuff. The mornings are dedicated to processing books for comps....