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Merry Christmas!
I hope all those who celebrate enjoy the season! Blogging will be minimal for the next week or so.
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From religious diversity to “confessional pluralism”
In the final chapter of The Many Faces of Christology, Tyron Inbody looks at the issue of religious diversity. He considers the standard responses–exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism–but finds them wanting for familiar reasons. Exclusivism, in addition to resting on a questionable and selective interpretation of the biblical witness, greatly exacerbates the problem of evil by…
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Favorite music of 2011
As always, these are based on what I listened to and enjoyed the most, not on an objective, “critical” take. Five metal albums: Anthrax, Worship Music Hammers of Misfortune, 17th Street Darkest Era, Last Caress of Light Red Fang, Murder the Mountains Cormorant, Dwellings Honorable mentions: Obscura, Omnivium; Argus, Boldly Stride the Doomed; Sinister Realm,…
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“Are you the one who is to come?”
Tyron Inbody has a very interesting chapter on Christianity and Judaism in his Many Faces of Christology. With “post-Holocaust” theologies, he notes that the contention between Judaism and Christianity isn’t over Jesus’s teachings–which scholars now believe fell largely within the parameters of 1st-century Pharisaic Judaism. Nor is it over his death–which was not the fault…
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Bad blogger
I’ve been a little under the weather and extra busy this week, so the Advent series may have to go on hold. I hope to have some more time for blogging soon.
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Christology and worries about “theosis”
I’m reading Tyron L. Inbody’s The Many Faces of Christology, and while this isn’t a direct comment on the book, it is inspired by something he writes about. In discussing the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries, Inbody emphasizes that these were about soteriology first and foremost. All the seemingly esoteric talk about…
