Last night we launched: Reconsidering Gender: Evangelical Perspectives Edited by Myk Habets, Beulah Wood and two other books edited by my colleague Myk. The man is a book production machine! I have a chapter in the Gender book: “The Image of the Invisible God: (An)iconic Knowing, God, and Gender” The publisher describes the book thus: [...]
Browsing Posts in Theology
This post follows my Theological education: some autobiographical reflections: Childhood. I arrived at University determined to use the opportunity of life away from home to explore existence without God or church. I was studying psychology, keen to see how the scientific method, with its empirical and experimental openness, could throw light on the mystery of [...]
Link now working, sorry :( I am still gradually expanding the open book Not Only a Father. I have added a section concerning “The Gender of Yahweh” to chapter five which (as a whole) is about “Theology of God as both Father and Mother“. This growing book is an experiment in publishing as discussion, not [...]
Kenton Sparks, (Biblical Studies, Eastern University) has a good (if somewhat polemic) short post, part 2 of a series After Inerrancy: Evangelicals and the Bible in a Postmodern Age in which he sets up nicely the inner-biblical problem of genocide in texts like Deut 7:2. I hope that it is more than merely a stick [...]
I’ve been podcasting my way through the E100 (100 “essential” Bible readings designed to give a good overview introduction to the Bible). Today we got to Exodus 12: E100-19: Exodus12: A great festival, but a huge theological problem. I faced a dillemma, the podcasts are billed as 5 minute Bible, so I can’t go much over [...]
Mothers’ day yesterday was a double disappointment. It was not that the children forgot to celebrate Barbara, they remembered :) It was not that the service failed to include women who are not mothers, it did include them. But I still had two frustrations. One was personal, but shared with huge numbers of others in [...]
Aristotle’s Feminist Subject has a post in which various translationsof Psalm 90 are compared. As always I’m astounded by the way most treat verse 2: בְּטֶרֶם׀ הָרִים יֻלָּדוּ וַתְּחֹולֵל אֶרֶץ וְתֵבֵל וּמֵעֹולָם עַד־עֹולָם אַתָּה אֵל׃ Before the mountains were born or you gave birth to the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you [...]
Yesterday I was reading bits of theses I am supervising (catching up after an Easter holiday), both were complex material, one because she is writing about Bakhtin (stimulating and likeable but not easy), the other because he’s dealing with two of the more difficult passages, basically dealing with the question of God’s commands to Israel [...]
Repost first posted in Sept 2004 Maggi Dawn in her “Three Must-Reads in blogville” drew my attention to John Sloas’ post in Crooked Line titled “motherly spirituality for a dad“. I started to post these thoughts as a comment there, but they grew… My “kids” are now thoroughly grown and have left the nest. I [...]
Nuts by s58y Tash has a really stimulating, really short post “Theology For Our Times. Stu exegetes the post in a comment ;) All I’ll add here (so you have to go read the post and think for yourself) is that “church leaders” must be nuts if they really think “salvation, end times, church leadership…” [...]
