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Vote for DET! 22 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch… 17 Aug 2013 | 05:36 pm
…or, Something to keep you busy over the weekend… …or, The Past Fortnight in the Theoblogosphere. Summer is almost over. *sighs Professional structures return to my life on Monday, as new students...
Gollwitzer on Christianity, Atheism, and the Existence of God 15 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
Once more onto the Gollwitzer band-wagon, shall we? Gollwitzer is perhaps best known for being on the receiving end of Jüngel’s attention in God’s Being is in Becoming. Well, I went back and read the...
"Thank You" - Paul Ricoeur and Karl Barth 13 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
A footnote in Paul Ricoeur between Theology and Philosophy: Frederick Lawrence tells of a lecture that Ricoeur gave at Boston University in the 1970s. A questioner, objecting to an argument of Ricoeu...
My Most Recent Publication 9 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
My addiction to writing book reviews apparently knows no bounds, although I will say that I have spoken with an “accountability partner” about this . . . In any case, it works out to your benefit, gen...
All truth is God’s truth: Calvin on philosophy and theology 7 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Calvin wrote a letter to his mentor, Martin Bucer, that seems to date from early 1549. Bucer had been displaced from Strasburg by the Interim - the Schmalkald League having been defeated by the Holy R...
Highlights from the DET Archives 5 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
Summer is a good time to click around on websites, and I hope that some of you, gentle readers, have been clicking around here at DET. However, if you have not yet had occasion to do that, I thought t...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch… 3 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
…or, Something to keep you busy over the weekend… …or, The Past Fortnight in the Theoblogosphere. Well, then. The last link post was three weeks ago, and quite a bit has happened since then. Before ...
Paul Zahl's (un)Ecclesiology 31 Jul 2013 | 05:18 pm
No one has ever awakened in the middle of the night anxious about ecclesiology per se (225). In this, my final post on Paul Zahl’s Grace in Practice: A Theology for Everyday Life, I will focus on Zah...
Paul Zahl on Law and Grace in Everyday Life 29 Jul 2013 | 05:57 pm
“In life there are two governing principles that are at war with one another. The first is law; the second is grace…. The law crushes the human spirit; grace lifts it” (1). “Law is hell on earth. It ...