Resident Theologian
About the Blog
Second naivete
A personal scholarly trajectory regarding the historicity of ancient scriptural narrative.
My latest: a review of Mark Noll in The Christian Century
A link to my review of Mark Noll’s new book in the latest issue of The Christian Century.
You can’t die for a question
A follow-up reflection on biblicism, catholicity, martyrdom, and perspicuity.
The great Christian divide
Hashing out the differences between a biblicist and a catholic approach to Scripture, tradition, and the Christian faith.
More on post-biblicism biblicism
A few more points in addition to yesterday’s reflection on the odd phenomenon I’m calling “post-biblicism biblicism,” or PBB for short.
Biblicism beyond biblicism
There is a strange phenomenon in graduate theological education that I’ve never quite been able to understand. Here’s my best attempt at describing it.
Evangelical addenda
As soon as I hit “Publish” on the last post, I felt some unease about how it might come across. I re-read it, and let me offer a few further comments, especially before I go read what anybody else makes of it.
The problem with evangelicalism
There’s not only one, granted. But this isn’t one of those posts. It’s not a beat-up-on-the-evangelicals manifesto in nine parts. It’s not about evangelicals and politics, or about that popular Christianity Today podcast, or about which marks truly define an evangelical, and whether they ought to be doctrinal or sociological or other. This is a minor little comment about theology and hermeneutics. Here it is.
Blakely, Singal, and “stories”
I have a new piece in the latest issue of The New Atlantis called “Statistics as Storytelling.” The print journal is in subscribers’ hands; the issue will be online sometime this week, I imagine. (It’s jam-packed full of goodness, by the way: Nicholas Carr, Matthew Crawford, Phil Christman, Ari Schulman, Caitrin Keiper, Addison Del Mastro, and many others.) My piece is a long essay review of Jason Blakely’s book We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power. I’ll link to it in a separate post once it’s up.