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,...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 4, 2014 | How Do We Think?, postfoundational, The Trinity
The Deep in the Burbs Research project is a postmodern story about navigating the treacherous waters between the Scylla of absolutism/positivism/foundationalism and the Charybdis of relativism/nihilism/deconstructivism. ((Scylla and Charybdis refers to the hazards...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 1, 2014 | Spiritual Formation
I wrote the following passage today while working on the Spiritual Formation Frame of my dissertation. It kind of wrote itself as I was working. What I mean is that I had no intention of including Willard in this section. Then, when I looked more closely at...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 24, 2014 | ministry, Spiritual Formation, Theology
The purpose of this conference–Rethinking Faith Formation, held at Luther Seminary–is to create a space where church leaders can gather for encouragement and be challenged to rethink how we cultivate faith formation practices in our local communities. Here...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 17, 2014 | Personal Journal, postfoundational, The Trinity
Regarding Dualisms It seems that no matter where you turn in life you run into them. Dualisms. A dualism is when you find two polar opposite options to a single question that both have evidence for being correct. This is true in theology. Is Jesus God or human? Is it...
