You scored as Neo orthodox. You are neo-orthodox. You reject the human-centredness and scepticism of liberal theology, but neither do you go to the other extreme and make the Bible the central issue for faith. You believe that Christ is God’s most important revelation to humanity, and the Trinity is hugely important in your theology.…

In what is otherwise a valuable article, Chris Hedges repeats a charge that has become something of a commonplace among critics of the Bush administration’s foreign policy: This myth, the lie, about war, about ourselves, is imploding our democracy. We shun introspection and self-criticism. We ignore truth, to embrace the strange, disquieting certitude and hubris…

Martin Luther’s pretty far down there… You scored as Karl Barth. The daddy of 20th Century theology. You perceive liberal theology to be a disaster and so you insist that the revelation of Christ, not human experience, should be the starting point for all theology. Anselm 80% Augustine 80% Karl Barth 80% John Calvin 73%…

An article from Books & Culture on Bonhoeffer and the just war vs. pacifism question. Everyone wants to claim Bonhoeffer – just warriors appeal to his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler; pacifists point to his writings, especially Discipleship. I confess that I have a hard time with the view – sometimes brought up…

Christianity is not reconciliation with death. It is the revelation of death, and it reveals death because it is the revelation of Life. Christ is this Life. And only if Christ is Life, is death what Christianity proclaims it to be, namely the enemy to be destroyed, and not a “mystery” to be explained. Religion…

Having been hanging around Lutheranism (at least in its ELCA version) for about five years now, I’ve noticed that, like many other mainline Protestant denominations, there are several distinct sub-groups or factions that appear to co-exist with varying degrees of tension. For instance, most readers are probably familiar with the divisions within Anglicanism between evangelicals,…

Following the George Lucas approach of setting expectations so low that you can’t help but exceed them, the new Batman flick looks like it’ll be light years ahead of the last two horrible, horrible entries in the series. The two typical approaches to the character are either campy (think the 60s tv series) or ultra…

This is interesting (via A Conservative Blog for Peace) – Am I objecting to the notion of America being a “Christian nation,” especially because I am Muslim? No, not at all. Like I said before, I have absolutely no problem with this being a nation based upon Judeo-Christian values, because those values are my values.…

Marcus says that the churches don’t need to abandon the supernatural worldview of traditional Christianity in order to survive, but that they should re-think their sexual ethic, since the sexual revoution is a fait accompli. I think he may be on to something, though I might quibble about a few things. During much of the…

Well, sort of. A good editorial on fear-mongering about religion (via Jesus Politics): Exposés of right-wing Christian America are often hardly less apocalyptic than the pronouncements of the radio preachers citing Revelation. The sky is falling, the new brown shirts are taking over, our beloved republic is being conquered by fundamentalists who are as crazy…