Jamie Smith raises some provocative questions about the generational divide over issues of traditional belief and confessional subscription. I have a little hypothesis to float here, and I know it will be somewhat off-putting. But here goes: I think this is very much a generational issue. More specifically, I think this is a baby boomer [...]
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Tillich argues in his classic book Love, Power, and Justice that countless confusions and contradictions arise when we think of love merely as an emotion or irrational passion, or of justice as an independent or neutral calculation of rights and claims. Theologically speaking, the familiar opposition of love and power, as well as love and justice, [...]
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David Weir once argued that the emergence of Reformed covenant theology was motivated by theodicy, by a desire to show that God’s eternal decrees of election and damnation were not arbitrary or a faithless act toward His creation. This is a contested claim, since theodicy seems to be just one ingredient among several that go [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, re-reading O’Donovan (and some of his subsequent interactions with his critics) raised some questions for me. The first set of Anabaptist questions aren’t entirely novel, but they helped me to see the importance of O’Donovan re-placement of politics from a natural to a historical institution. So first, assuming a Yoderian or [...]
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