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.
Browse My Theological Library
Deep in the Burbs is my PhD Dissertation, Luther Seminary, 2015
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Theology Posts
Reading, Reading, Reading…
These are my textbooks for the classes I’m taking this semester. There are more books that I'll read for specific papers, so this represents about half of the reading. Yee-ha! Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. 1997. The postmodern turn, Critical perspectives. New...
The Church…
An important quote from The Missional Church in Perspective... The church is. The church does what it is. The church organizes what it does.
Stripping Roses from the Cross
A passage from the chapter titled Luther's Theology of the Cross in Christian Dogmatics by Braaten/Jensen Particularly important is the manner in which Luther moves to strip the roses from the cross. Christ comes among us and dies a real death "wrapped in our sins."...
Lesslie Newbigin on the Role of the Church in Society
I finally finished reading Newbigin's book The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. I will post my overall response to the book eventually. For now, here is one last quote that I felt needed to be shared. If the gospel is to challenge the public life of our society, if...
Fare Well Rob Bell
As usual I am Johnny come lately to the party. Most of the hubub has quieted over Rob Bell's book Love Wins. The parley is now passe. It was entertaining, however, to passively observe the blogosphere ignite after Piper's simple tweet "farewell Rob Bell." I didn't...
Lesslie Newbigin on Election
Another inspiring passage from The Gospel in a Pluralist Society (pp. 86-87) To be chosen, to be elect, therefore does not mean that the elect are the saved and the rest are the lost. To be elect in Christ Jesus, and there is no other election, means to be...
on knowing and believing by Lesslie Newbigin
We have to conclude that [Bertrund] Russell's account [the scientific method] does not do justice to the way science actually works. If we attend only to the textbook writers and the popularizers of science we get the impression that all this is "fact," quite...
Definition of the Church
"the church is not simply a group of individuals who gather together because of a common faith. Rather, it constitutes a proleptic and ecumenical community that anticipates the fuller reality of God's eschatalogical and ecumenic consummation." - Ted Peters, God: The...
A Mighty Wind
If you were a citizen of North Minneapolis or Joplin Missouri and you heard the words, "there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting," how might you react? Wind is a mysterious and powerful thing....