Daily Archives: May 28, 2009

Theology Blogging Pet Peeve

Posted by on May 28, 2009 23 comments

Ok, one thing I seriously can’t stand among theology bloggers is when the blog consists of virtually nothing other than of notifications about the author’s most recently published books, articles, or reviews.

Admittedly there aren’t tons of blogs that perpetrate this, but there are plenty where such announcements take up far too large a percentage of the posts on a blog. Not that theology blogs shouldn’t include this, its just that if you’re going to be serious about calling it a theology blog and not simply a self-promotion web device, you need to be sporting some content and discussion.

These are my feelings on this matter.

A Missionary Ethic of Incarnation

Posted by on May 28, 2009 1 comment

“If we cannot transcend the vulnerability of belief by positing as accessible a nonparticular ‘natural,’ might we then celebrate confessionally that light and truth have taken on the vulnerability of the particular? That would then call for and empower a missionary ethic of incarnation.

“The Challenge will still remain to find ways to translate and to work at a reciprocal adjudication of the varieties both of perception and of evaluation, where one provincial vision clashes and overlaps with another. But the way to do that is not to imagine or proclaim or seek or discover some ‘neutral’ or ‘common’ or ‘higher’ ground, but to work realistically at every concrete experience of overlap and conflict.”

~ John Howard Yoder, “The Hermeneutics of Peoplehood,” 44.

1,000 Posts and Counting…

Posted by on May 28, 2009 6 comments

This marks my one thousandth blog post. Thanks and appreciation to all who read the stuff I write and somehow find it interesting.

Here’s to doubling my total before the end of the year!

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