Resident Theologian
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Aping the Inklings
A plea—to myself first, then to others—to stop centering the Inklings and other “modern classics” as the north star for popular Christian writing today.
You can’t die for a question
A follow-up reflection on biblicism, catholicity, martyrdom, and perspicuity.
Mapping academic theology
Sharing and reflecting on John Shelton’s genealogical web of liberal mainline institutions, theologians, and ethicists in the wake of Barth.
I’m in LARB on Hauerwas, Barth, and Christendom
This morning Los Angeles Review of Books published an essay review of mine on Stanley Hauerwas’s latest book, which came out earlier this year, titled Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth.
The vanity of theologians
The love of God in Christ is the model of all good theological work. That is Barth's basic thesis: “If the object of theological knowledge is Jesus Christ and, in him, perfect love, then Agape alone can be the dominant and formative prototype and principle of theology.” Yet who among us would claim to consistently meet this standard? It is one thing to agree that teaching ought to be an act of self-emptying love on behalf of students, but quite another to teach that way.