Patheos blog article on the Holy Spirit.
Phil Wyman's Four Square No More Blog post.
The Transform Gathering East Coast page.
Informational films I've made (with Kristina) about Quakerism are here.
Tony Jones' post about Pentecostalism and the Emergent Church is here.
Sam Laurent's profile (almost to the bottom of the page) from Drew is here.
Sarah Walker-Cleaveland is currently working on some pneumatology stuff and her home page is here.
Short list (for posterity’s sake) of Tony Jones‘ list of Top Ten Myths about the Emerging Church, delivered at Emergence Now at Columbia Theological Seminary January 27, 2010, and reported real time via Bruce Reyes-Chow (who is there as well) through Twitter with @breyeschow.
#1 “Emergence is just about theological debates and publishing contracts.”
#2 “Emergence only appeals to younger people.”
#3 “Emergence is a reformation of evangelicalism.”
#4 “Emergence does not believe in authority.”
#5 “Emergence is confined to the American church and white guys.”
#6 “Emergence doesn’t appreciate church history.”
#7 “Emergence has a spokesperson.”
#8 “Emergence is a new way to ‘do church’.”
#8.5 “Pomomusings is the official blog of the emergent church.”
#9 “Emergence is anti-denominational”
#10 “Emergence is trying to put the conventional church out of business.”
UPDATE 1/27 : Tony posted the slides from yesterday’s talk here.
On a recent video from the Transforming Theology project, Phillip Clayton asked Tony Jones how the internet and Google have been at work changing theology. Jones replied that it allows for a greater, more broad based, access to information, and forum for feedback. I agree.
In a Dec. 14 post on his blog, Jonathan Brink writes about uncertainty, truth, interpretation, and Stephen Colbert’s interview with the Conservative Bible Project guy. Those are all things I love thinking about.
In a Dec. 14 post on his blog, Blake Huggins writes about Jurgen Moltmann, Jean Francois Lyotard, and Chris Rosenbrough commented that “… these are first and foremost the questions that need to be asked and definitively answered and those answers are found no where else than in the inerrant and inspired text of scripture.” Blake replied that “… I think it is impossible for anyone to simple “begin in the text” or pose the question “what does the text say?” I don’t think the text or us as readers exist in a vacuum.” This reminds me of Stanley Fish’s comment that “”strictly speaking, getting ‘back-to-the-text’ is not a move one can perform, because the text one gets back to will be the text demanded by some other interpretation and that interpretation will be presiding over its production.”
In a serendipitous convergence of things, this very day I finished writing a piece called “Towards a Heraldic Gospel: From Monorthodox Doctrine to Theopoetic Perspectives on Revelation and Repentance.” It addresses all the things that Jonathan, Blake, and Chris were discussing, and I wonder, if, in the spirit of the Tony Jones and Phillip Clayton conversation, real people are interested in chomping down on some theology with me and giving it a read. That’s my request: given that you are a hyper-extended community of interpretation that might actually be interested in theology, is there anyone out there who would be interested in chatting?
There have been a few great back and forths on The Image of Fish already, and I thought it might be worth testing the waters to see if this larger scale communique would be received as well.
Anyone who would be interested and giving it a read can download it directly here. If anyone does bite, I’d love to do a back and forth via skype for a few minutes so that it could get posted here as well… Comments are good too though.
This morning, Tony Jones published on his blog the contents of a chapter he wrote for The Justice Project. In it he discusses the utility of some aspects of postmodern thought to the faithful Christian. His particular consideration of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur and the hermeneutic of humility prompted me to add on to some thoughts I started in my comments of the transforming possibility of text. I have been engaged by the work of Paul Ricoeur since I first read him, and I imagine I’ll further address some of his thoughts as I proceed. He has lots to offer.
In this particular video I am mostly concerned with his idea about the Second Naïveté.