Ben’s theological confessions meme is taking off at the moment.  And, as I’m the kind of person who likes to steal, bastardize, and parrot ideas, here’s something similar: Theological Proclamations.  Of course the utility of something like this is that you can be a lot less contrite and confessiony about things and feel free to let the theological crankiness roam.  I have no illusions about this becoming another meme, but if you feel like posting your own, go for it!

 I proclaim:  That Kim Fabricius has done what Carl Henry and evangelicals everywhere have always dreamed of: making the word ‘proposition’ into something theologically tolerable.  If only they liked the content of his propositions…

 I proclaim:  That narrative theology is not a dead end!

 I proclaim:  That Radical Orthodoxy is pretty much all bullshit.  Maybe all of it.

I proclaim:  That one of my biggest theological fantasies is beating John Milbank about the head and shoulders with tire iron.

I proclaim:  That Thomas Aquinas is neither the best nor worst of the western theological tradition.  He is great on some things and out to lunch on some others.

 I proclaim:  That Anabaptism and Roman Catholicism have the most to teach the church universal.

 I proclaim:  That monks, not politicos, economists, or soldiers deserve the credit for the preservation of western civilization.

I proclaim:  That infant baptism obscures the gospel and is one of the most problematic ecclesial practices to come out of Christendom.  And it did come out of Christendom.

I proclaim:  That any theologian worth his salt should drink beer!

I proclaim:  That evangelicalism in North America (at least) is a theological and ecclesial dead end.

I proclaim:  That  Moltmann my be careless and wrong about a lot of things, but he deserves a really, really, careful reading.  And you can learn some great truths from everything he writes.

I proclaim:  That German Theology is not the future.  In fact its pretty much run its course.

I proclaim:  That Lesslie Newbigin is the only modern authority that has carte blanche authority on missiological issues.

I proclaim:  That the future of theology will be in eccleisal communities, not the academy.  In fact I don’t really think that theology can really be done in the academy at all.  It just lives off its ecclesial inertia.