Christian Humanist Profiles 204: Defending Shame
Everyone agrees that shame is a terrible feeling. So isn’t it logical that we should avoid feeling shame? And doesn’t that also mean that it’s bad to make other people…
Christian Humanist Profiles 116: The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing
Augustine called the Sermon on the Mount “a perfect standard of the Christian life.” John Calvin said it “collect[ed] into one place the leading points of the doctrine of Christ,…
Christian Humanist Profiles 56: Paul’s Divine Christology
In the early second century, Pliny, the governor of the Roman province of Pontus and Bithynia, wrote a letter to his emperor, Trajan, about Christians who “were accustomed to meet…
Christian Humanist Profiles 55: The Pastor as Public Theologian
“Feed my sheep,” Christ commanded Peter, and Peter passed on that command to others: “shepherd the flock of God that is among you … [so that] when the chief Shepherd…
Christian Humanist Profiles 39: Defending Substitution
Bearing shame and scoffing rude, in my place condemned he stood, sealed my pardon with his blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior! These lines from P. P. Bliss’s classic hymn are…
Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #155.2: Caedmon’s Hymn
David Grubbs chats with Nathan Gilmour about the hymn of Caedmon, a poem from the Old English version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
BrueggeBlog 1: Back into the Biblical Theology Fray
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy There are all sorts of good things about defending one’s dissertation. I never have to correct a student again when he addresses…