Comments on: Is Blogging Superficial?

By: roger flyer

roger flyer — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:58:26 +0000

Andrew-Sometimes the ; is missed. I am a huge fan of Ben (and Halden, too)

By: mike W

mike W — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:54:57 +0000

We are blessed by having great blogs like this one to read, but there are plenty crap, nutcase, shallow, nauseating waste of time blogs out there. Maybe they are the kind of thing Jim is most accustomed to

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:48:14 +0000

Having been the first to lay into Packer (who can resist?), I would like to defend the criterion of “staying power” as deeply Pauline. You can’t really read 1 Cor 13 (or a whole host of other Paul texts) without being impressed by the importance of endurance for Paul. Remember to avoid strawiness! Which was, of course, Luther’s criticism of the book of James.

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:54:46 +0000

Roger, no problem. I am sorry if I misunderstood your comment. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell if someone is writing seriously or in jest. I did not mean to be overly serious.

By: roger flyer

roger flyer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:02:55 +0000

andrew-
sorry. didn’t mean to offend you. i agree with you…

By: roger flyer

roger flyer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:00:44 +0000

haha

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:47:01 +0000

That doesn’t negate the fact that he has a large majority of archived theological topics. I’m glad that’s all you got out of my post.

If there’s one thing that is bad about blogs its that people can make comments about what others have said, just for the sake of saying something. It’s unfortunate that blogs can be used as a vehicle for anonymous criticism

By: roger flyer

roger flyer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:36:07 +0000

See…generation gap.

By: roger flyer

roger flyer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:34:41 +0000

If I want to see what the popular topics are in theology I go to Ben’s blog, F&T, and I take a look at his archives categorized by theologian or topic.

…like Tom Waits or The Simpsons. ;

By: roger flyer

roger flyer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:02:06 +0000

“Excellent!” said Mr Burns.

By: myles

myles — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:17:00 +0000

This is a brilliant observation, Ben. Thanks.

I have some sympathy with Packer’s remarks, to the degree that most folks interested in theology get caught up with novelty or ‘current discourse’ without taking the time to have any idea where the discourse has come from or what water has passed under the bridge. It makes me crazy when I present at AAR regionals and have 50 year old professors asking me who this Barth kid is.

However, there is something to be said that the best discourse is had in conversation; books represent the final stage of those conversations, not the first. Unless, of course, you’re Descartes by the stove.

By: bruce hamill

bruce hamill — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:29:23 +0000

my quote of the week Halden!

By: Kampen

Kampen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:50:59 +0000

Also, as a pitch, check out ortusmemoria.wordpress.org
The only requirements for reading/commenting on the blog are rigor and leniency; rigorous academic critique, and leniency as in karitas.

By: Kampen

Kampen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:47:08 +0000

A Testimony:
After just over a year or so of following several theology blogs and being pointed to a number of figures to dialogue with, I agree that blogging can certainly push the thinking cap. It can, of course, do just the opposite. However, today I posted my first essay on my own blog project and received a helpful comment. Not only did the comment bring up several interesting questions, it inaugurated a dialogue. Also, more to my immediate concerns, it required me to bring an essay by Milbank into the conversation and thereby read him more carefully and form an opinion. Not only, then, did the blog post practice what I call “intentional thought community”, it also helped me to write a review paper for my class due Thursday.

By: Geoff Broughton

Geoff Broughton — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:20:33 +0000

Hauerwas really said “I regard spirituality as learning how to talk”? Now thats funny…