Theology

Theology is one of those scary words that either intimidates people or rallies them for a fight. It shouldn't be that way.

 

Theology is just the process of talking (or doodling) about God.

A Friendly Introduction to Theology

This playlist of videos comes from a course I taught at Grace Lutheran Church in 2016. It builds off of the book Making Sense out of the Christian Faith by David Lose and combines it with my cartooning style and theological perspective. Watch. Share. Enjoy.

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The MeWe Principle Updated

The MeWe Principle Updated

I drew these sketches and wrote these words in August, 2012: There is no I in this picture. The subject is not in the singular. God is inherently WE in God's Trinitarian essence. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit collectively form the subject WE. God said, "We create...

Book | In Search of Self edited by van Huyssteen and Wiebe

Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel and Erik P. Wiebe. In Search of Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Personhood. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2011. The following two paragraphs provide a good flavor for this collection of essays that explore the human self in an...

How Do We Navigate Between Opposite Extremes…and Survive?

How Do We Navigate Between Opposite Extremes…and Survive?

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...

The Holy Spirit, Twitter, and Practical Wisdom

I believe the Holy Spirit moves through Twitter. I know that sounds weird, but the story I am about to tell is one that has happened often to me. Yesterday I started writing an essay about dualisms and how we can navigate between seemingly polarized opposites. I'll...

A Meditation on 1 John 2:1-17 and the Trinity

"My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the...

When scientists and theologians agree that being is at all levels relational, they do not tell us only something about God and the world. They throw light also on our ordinary everyday life as human beings. If we live in a relational universe, not as external visitors to it but as parts of it, any individualistic approach to existence is bound to contradict not only the will of God but also the truth of our own being. A relational ontology, if it is ontology in the true sense of the word, cannot but cover all aspects, all areas, and all levels of existence: the divine, the cosmic, the social. Such an ontology acquires its full significance as it helps us understand that a relational existence, a transcendence of the boundaries of the self for the purpose of communion with the other, an existence of communion in otherness, is not a matter of our bene esse but of the very esse of ourselves and of the world in which we live. In engaging with relational ontology we encounter all that ultimately matters in existence.” (Zizioulas in Polkinghorne. The Trinity in an Entangled World. 156)

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The Importance of Relational Ontology | A Quote from Zizioulas

When scientists and theologians agree that being is at all levels relational, they do not tell us only something about God and the world. They throw light also on our ordinary everyday life as human beings. If we live in a relational universe, not as external visitors...

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