Nathan Gilmour leads David Grubbs and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Rodney Clapp’s 1996 article “Why the Devil Takes Visa.”
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #160: A Little Exercise for Young Theologians
David Grubbs leads a discussion with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about Helmut Thielicke’s 1959 treatise A Little Exercise for Young Theologians. Michial’s joke
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Christian Humanist Profiles 28: Ice Axes for Frozen Seas by Walter Brueggemann
Cultural critics of a certain persuasion will sometimes suggest that the Bible is a force to conserve what is most stable in human society, to call us back from our radical delusions and into a[…]
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BrueggeBlog 8: It’s All Interpretation
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy God-Verbs The Gospel of Plurality Theological Dialectics My Creatio ex Nihilo Copout First to the Jews, then to the Nations Mediation and Dispute and Authority It’s All Interpretation It’s funny how pendulums[…]
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Brueggeblog 7: Mediation and Dispute and Authority
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy God-Verbs The Gospel of Plurality Theological Dialectics My Creatio ex Nihilo Copout First to the Jews, then to the Nations Mediation and Dispute and Authority It’s All Interpretation Many folks, if not[…]
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BrueggeBlog 6: First to the Jews, then to the Nations
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy Okay, so I left a bit of a gap between posts 5 and 6. Sorry about that. For the sake of those who want to refresh themselves[…]
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BrueggeBlog 5: My Creatio ex Nihilo Copout
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy I’m going to appropriate and extend Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of a tradition here and posit that to be part of the tradition of Bible-interpretation means engaging in[…]
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BrueggeBlog 4: Theological Dialectics
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy Up to a certain point, reading one book of the Bible at a time (or, sometimes, one segment of one book of the Bible) is the task[…]
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BrueggeBlog 3: The Gospel of Plurality
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy If the stories of the Biblical text are the core of the testimony (as I discussed in BrueggeBlog 2), certain questions arise: does the story of Job[…]
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BrueggeBlog 2: God-Verbs
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy My own Brueggemann revolution started with grammar: the main way that Israel articulates the core testimony about YHWH is in the form of verbs. I’m not sure[…]
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