by Steve Thomason | Jan 12, 2015 | Personal Journal, Personal Updates, postfoundational
I have already stated several times that one key assumption behind the DITB project was that theology is not the process of constructing an abstract, systematic model of God. At least, it shouldn’t be. Unfortunately, much theology is just that. Modern academic...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 8, 2015 | Personal Journal, Personal Updates
It is time to attempt a simple synthesis of what the research revealed in direct relation to the research question itself. The data seem to indicate that an increased awareness and understanding of the social Trinity impacted the ideation and praxis of spiritual...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 28, 2014 | Personal Journal, Spiritual Formation
This is how the internet works…for some of us, anyway. I was on Facebook and saw two of my academic colleagues–Ken Reynhout and Josh de Keijzer–shared a post by Peter Enns that was written by Jeannine Brown. (check out the animation I did for...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 11, 2014 | Adult Learning, Building Community, Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, postfoundational, Religious Education, Spiritual Formation, Spirituality in Adult Learning, The Trinity, Theories of Adult Learning
Deep in the Burbs is a story of people in formation. The task of this project—to ask how an increased awareness and understanding of the social Trinity might impact the ideation and praxis of spiritual formation in suburban ELCA congregations—implies that something...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 8, 2014 | Spiritual Formation
I’m beginning to work on a project that is tentatively called “The Journey: Finding Your Way for a Life in God” The following three images are the three metaphors from which I will draw throughout the course. It will be an eight-session course,...