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  • Recommended Reading: November 28 – December 4

    If you read one article this weekend, engage Internet Confessional by Clare Coffey If you have additional reading time, check out the selections below, gather (as always) from around the blogging world. Don’t see something you thought was a really good read this week? Let me know in the comments section.

  • MHT: Principle of Order

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. The third methodological foundation for historical theology incorporates aspects of an ordered approach to the study of the past. This is the great legacy of the Modern era on the study of history: a scientific approach…

  • MHT: Perspectivism

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. To satisfy both the postmodern critique and need for epistemological clarity, I suggest epistemological and methodological perspectivism. Perspectivism acknowledges the limits of the historian and their information, the selectivity of historical presentations, and the variability of…

  • MHT: Principle of Clarity

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. Epistemological clarity constitutes the second vital component for historical theological work. This necessity arises out of awareness of the postmodern critique of knowledge. As noted above, the postmodern challenge argues that historians can only engage the…

  • MHT: Principle of Awareness

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. With a metanarrative of developmentalism in a hand, I must now turn to some explicit methodological principles for undertaking the project of historical theology. First, methodological awareness forms the foundation for all solid historical theological work.…

  • After Death

    Last week, Conciliar Post ran a Round Table discussion what happens to human beings after physical death. Below are my reflections for your consideration. Just a couple of weeks ago, someone posed this very question—what happens to people after death?—while I was teaching a Sunday school class on the Apocalypse of John (the book of…

  • Recommended Reading: November 21-27

    Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! If you read one article this week, look at the Conciliar Post Round Table: After Death. For those of you with additional reading time (perhaps over some delectable leftovers), check out the following suggestions below. As always, if you think there is something else that I should be reading, feel free to…

  • MHT: Assessing Historical Metanarratives (Part II)

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. The metanarrative that seems most appropriate as the general approach to the history of Christianity is that of development. An approach seeking authentic developments—those which retain the first principles of a tradition throughout their entire development—appears…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving Dear Readers! Every Thanksgiving, I try to share some thanks and Thanksgiving themed comics for your enjoyment. Enjoy this year’s selection and take time to thank God for all of your blessings today!

  • MHT: Assessing Historical Metanarratives (Part I)

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. At long last, I turn to the second part of this series, which itself will contain two sections: first, a general discussion of which historical metanarratives seem best suited to the work of contemporary historical theology;…