by Steve Thomason | May 25, 2012 | Sketches, Theology
These are my class notes from Trinity and Mission with Dr. Gary Simpson. I took the class at Luther Seminary this Spring 2012. I took the notes on my iPad using Noteshelf. From noteshelf I uploaded them to my dropbox account, then on my desktop uploaded them to my...
by Steve Thomason | May 19, 2012 | Sketches
These are the notes I took in Noteshelf on my iPad as Dr. Craig Van Gelder laid out 2,000 years of Christian missionary history. If you click on the image it should pop up full size.
by Steve Thomason | Mar 7, 2012 | Personal Journal
This is the timeline Dr. Van Gelder laid out for us today. Take-away…the Roman Catholic church had a powerful, creative, imagination of inculturation for two hundred years, while the Protestants were killing each other over doctrinal...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 3, 2012 | Theology
Dr. Simpson gave us his “Descartes 101” lecture yesterday. Great stuff. It is no wonder that rationalism rose to supremacy when you consider the fact that 20 million people died in the Thirty Years War. The thinkers of Europe said, “thanks, but you...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 1, 2012 | Personal Journal
We covered church history from 300 – 900 in class today. The church has always been polycentric. That means it has always had multiple forms in many parts of the world, from the very beginning. We (I) have been raised on such a Eurocentric view of the church...
