Family needs and school matters forced me to take a break from blogging for the past several months. I have missed the conversations. My Summer language intensive is almost done and I will be returning to the blog this Friday.
I am also aware that we have picked up a lot of new readers this year and thought it would be good to wade back in via some introductory material. It will be a nice way to orient folks to our unique flavor of christian theology.
Starting this Friday (with A is for Atonement), Callid and I am going to work our way through the alphabet – highlighting each day a different topic and why it matters. I will be asking (as I am prone to do) ask if it might look different in the 21st century.
I will post at both HBC and then here.
We will start with ‘Atonement’ on Friday and I am leaning toward ‘Baptism’ on Saturday. I am going to utilize two resources:
- The Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms by Stanley Grenz – $6 on Kindle
- Essential Theological Terms by Justo Gonzalez – $10 on Kindle
What topics would you like to see covered? I am open to suggestions.
After we go through the alphabet, I am going to circle around and covers theologians/authors who’s work is important to know about.
I will pair 2 each day:
– Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Catherine Keller for K, – you can hear the Homebrewed podcast with Kim [here] and with Keller [here]
– James Cone and John Cobb for C, etc.
This should be a fun Summer Series to get new people involved and oriented to what we do around here!
Let me know what topic you want addressed for this first A-Z.
July 10, 2014 at 3:05 pm
B – Bible (or S – Scripture) = how to interpret it, what Scripture is and is not etc.
J – Jesus (or C – Christology)
R – Resurrection (similar to atonement)(Rapture theory?)
D – Demonology
S – soteriology
T – Trinity
O – Original sin = what it is understood to be etc
I – Incarnation (process perspective)
E – Eschatology (specifically from a process perspective)(ecclesiology)
P – Process theology (pneumatology)
G – Gender of God
H – Hermeneutics
July 12, 2014 at 1:46 am
Holy Guacamole – that is an impressive list 🙂 -Bo let’s see what I can do