During Church I often find myself analizing my Amercian, conservative, evangelical, pseudo-’mega church’s worship style. I spend time questioning mostly ‘why’ and ‘how’ they do worship hoping to understand their theology behind the manner they do things. I see their … Continue reading →
Posted in Christianity, Church Living, Emergence, Emerging Church, Random Bloggings, Religion, Theology
|
Tagged Add new tag, Anthropology, Christianity, Earl Barnett, Emerging Church, Faith, George Orwell, Linguistic Determinism, Religion, Theology
|
I’m looking for a comprehensive book chronicalling Christian Heresies. A ‘Dictionary of Christian Heresy’, if you will. Does anyone know any good books like this? Earl
I’m currently reading for an upcoming blog comparing ‘post-modernity’ and English Deism and in the process think I’ve developed a litmus test (I’m sure that I am far from the first) to determine where someone falls between the ever popular … Continue reading →
This post comes as a response to accusations that I wanted to address clearly and directly. So, why preach? As much as I’m getting sick of making lists, I’ll do so for the sake of simplicity for readers. 1) Preaching … Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Christianity, Church Living, Doug Pagitt, Emergence, Emerging Church, Random Bloggings, Religion
|
Tagged Calvin Park, Christianity, Church, Earl Barnett, Preaching
|
Read the article here. I’m not going to comment on this aside from stating that, as much as the Church may want to condemn same sex relationships, they’re not going away and burying our head in the sand (read: hatred … Continue reading →
From his sermon, ‘Shall the Fundamentalists Win?‘: “If a man is a genuine liberal, his primary protest is not against holding [conservative] opinions, although he may well protest against their being considered the fundamentals of Christianity. This is a free … Continue reading →
Posted in Brian McLaren, Christianity, Church History, Emergence, Emerging Church, Harrold Emerson Fosdick, Historical Theology, N.T. Wright, Religion, Stephen Chalke, Theology
|
Tagged Brian McLaren, Christianity, Church History, Earl Barnett, Emerging Church, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Historical Theology, Liberalism, N.T. Wright, Religion, Stephen Chalke, Theology
|
A mentor handed me Piper’s new book ‘The Future of Justification‘ today and said to me… ‘Earl, justification doesn’t have a future. It’s a term that Luther made up to fit his need, and it worked for then. But now, … Continue reading →
Len has tagged me. Here are the rules: Once you’ve been ‘tagged’ you have to write a blog of ten weird/random facts/habits/goals about yourself. At the end choose ten people to be tagged, listing their names and WHY you chose … Continue reading →
This is an excerpt of Rudolph Bultmann’s “The New Testament and Mythology” taken from The Christian Theology Reader (2nd Ed.) pgs 71- 72: “The cosmology of the New Testament is essentially mythical in character. The world is viewed as a … Continue reading →
Posted in Alister McGrath, Books, Christianity, Church History, Historical Theology, Religion, Rudolph Bultmann, Theology
|
Tagged Alister McGrath, Biblical Interpretation, Christianity, Earl Barnett, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Liberal Protestantism, Religion, Rudolph Bultmann, Theology
|
Do many of us, as American-Protestant-Christians, operate from the assumption that God does not reveal ‘truth’ beyond our ability to comprehend it? I’ve met a lot of Christians who seem to operate from the perspective that any new theology or … Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Christianity, Church History, Church Living, Emergence, Emerging Church, Random Bloggings, Religion, Theology
|
Tagged Christian Living, Christianity, Church, Earl Barnett, Protestantism, Religion, Theology
|
The Things We Lost in the Fire I won’t go into too much detail, but I watched this movie on DVD last evening and it is easily one of the best movies I’ve ever watched. This movie realistically shows the … Continue reading →
I first was introduced to H. Richard Niebuhr’s 5 models of Christianity’s interaction with culture (from his book Christ and Culture) while reading Alister McGrath’s book, Christianity’s Dangerous Idea. Since being introduced to Nieburhr’s models I’ve also found that D.A. … Continue reading →
Posted in Alister McGrath, Books, Christianity, Church History, Historical Theology, Random Bloggings, Religion, Theology
|
Tagged Alister McGrath, Christian Ethics, Christianity, Church History, Culture, Earl Barnett, Niebuhr, Theology
|
Doug Pagitt has put chapter one of his new book, A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in , up on his blog. Check it out. Earl
I was fortunate enough to sit down today with my pastor, Dr. John Hawco, and ask his definitions of both Biblical Infallibility as well as Biblical Inerrancy. These are the definitions I received: Biblical Infallibility – The Bible ‘is not … Continue reading →
My subscribers dropped by 25% following this post. Wow. Either I’m an ignorant fool they don’t want to read anymore or I’m touching on a nerve. It really could be either one. Earl
