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  • MHT: Pre-Modern Historical Consciousness

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. While labels are always problematic in some sense, for the sake of this analysis perspectives on history are designated as broadly pre-Modern, Modern, or Postmodern.[2] Admittedly, this schema privileges somewhat the Modern narrative of superiority over…

  • Method and Historical Theology: Introduction

    Long attentive to its past, Western civilization often fails to address questions concerning how to appropriately and accurately understand history. This is especially true in the realm of Church history and theology, where faith has often found itself cast as the reason for not engaging the inconvenient events of the past. Over the month or…

  • Recommended Reading: October 28 – November 4

    If you read one article this week, make it Thin Places by Timothy George. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following selections from around the blogging world. As always, if you think there is something else I should be reading, let me know in the comments section below.

  • How I View Martin Luther

    Last Friday, Conciliar Post hosted a Round Table discussion on Martin Luther. I would encourage you go click on over there and peruse the reflections on how Christians from a variety of denominations view the “first” Reformer. My response to this Round Table is as follows: My perception of Luther arises from many experiences with…

  • Book Review: The Gospel of the Lord (Bird)

    Gospel Studies exists as a relatively neglected filed which has long taken a back seat to the study of the Historical Jesus or perspectives on Paul. Yet—argues Michael F. Bird—this realm of study stands ripe with opportunities for research and theological growth. To begin addressing the historical problem of how the life and teachings of…

  • Recommended Reading: October 24-30

    If you read one article this weekend, engage Historical Is Not Enough by Carl Trueman. For those of you with additional reading time this All Hallow’s Eve (or those of you looking for something to do between rings of the doorbell), check out the following selections below, gleaned from around  the internet this week. As…

  • Book Review: A History of Christian-Muslim Relations (Goddard)

    Islam and its relationship with Christianity remains a subject very much on the minds of many in today’s world. Indeed, for much of the past fifteen years the Western world and its media has routinely faced the question, “What is Islam and how does it affect us?” What few people seem to understand, however, is…

  • Recommended Reading: October 17-23

    If you read one article this week, check out Lecture Me. Really. by Molly Worthen. For those of you with additional reading time today, check out the following selections below, gleaned from around the internet. As always, if you think there is something else I should be reading, let me know in the comments section…

  • Blogging and Saint Patrick

    The past two weekends have been especially busy, as I’ve attended and presented at two conferences. The first was ‘That They May Be One’: The Past, Present, and Future of Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue”, hosted by Saint Louis University and the St. Irenaeus Orthodox Theological Institute. Though I am neither Orthodox or Catholic (yet, as my colleagues…

  • Blogging Ecumenically: A Way Forward

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on Orthodox-Catholic online dialogue, originally delivered at the “That They May Be One” Conference. In this series, I have drawn upon the ecumenical website Conciliar Post in order to examine how Orthodox and Catholic Christians dialogue in an online environment. Through this overview, I have argued…