I just recently came across the website of Joel Garver, a professor of philosophy at LaSalle University. He has a number of his own writings posted, including a wonderful and sucinct sketch of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s life and theology. For any who want to understand this giant in contemporary theology, but find themselves daunted by the size of the Balthasarian corpus, this is a great place to start.
Daily Archives: April 26, 2007
Against Being Born Again: Wiliam Abraham
Posted by Halden
on April 26, 2007
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The language of new birth has been gradually cut loose from its natural setting in the neighborhood of the coming new age of God. It thus lost its connections with the convert’s needs to see himself or herself as an agent of the kingdom of God, called by a new birth to participate in the new creation and inspired by the Holy Spirit. It has cemented into patterns of morality that often neglect the weightier matters of the law and that focus on the peccadillos of individual, personal behavior. In some hands it has been very skillfully used to undergird the fortunes of the free-market economy, the fortunes of this or that nation, and the election of conservative politicians. Born-again politics is the ultimate secularization and prostitution of this fragment of the language of Zion and a perfect example of the degeneration of the concept.
William Abaham, The Logic of Evangelism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), 122-123.
A Greater Courage
Posted by Halden
on April 26, 2007
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I’d like to formally welcome my friend, and regular browser of my bookstore, Derrick Peterson to the theoblogosphere. Derrick is an avid reader of Wolfhart Pannenberg and knows his thought better than anyone else I know personally. I think we can all look forward to some excellent discussions on his new blog, A Greater Courage. And, incidentally in one of his first posts, Derrick takes up the gauntlet of the worst theological problem meme and offers us an extensive theological critique of Pannenberg, which should engender some good discussion.
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