Workin' Class

Lohfink’s discussion of the patristic-era churches touches on their self-understanding, communicated both through New Testament citations an...

Missionary activity often takes its impetus from the Gentile mission detailed in Acts, a much easier starting point for explanation than Jes...

Charismatic Christianity in its twentieth-century incarnations has re-focused attention on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and their operabili...

As a history of protestant theology would reveal, we tend to be really inventive and enterprising when it comes to escaping the teachings of...

Having read Kingdom Ethics for a previous course, I’m substituting Gerhard Lohfink’s Jesus and Community from our recommended reading list. ...

Disclaimer: this piece is a bit more apologetic than practice-focused, simply because I believe Wright offers is a perspective that can shif...

Among the questions that inform a worldview is the question ‘what is wrong?’ Often times, we ask this question and point fingers at others;...

Wright’s discussion of Jesus’ welcome to sinners (264-274) is thought-provoking, particularly as it pertains to the effect of Jesus’ welcome...

Wright makes a strong argument that Jesus’ hearers “were not expecting the end of the space-time universe,” the traditional read on eschatol...

Wright makes a lot of the role of story within an oral culture, and of the power of narrative in revealing and communicating one’s worldview...

Sorry this one's a few minutes late...call me lazy and indecisive; could probably write on topics from chapters 8-10, as well as 12, ...

In light of the paradigm of divine deliverance established in Israel's story and expected in the time of Jesus, Yoder makes the case tha...

Yoder's survey of the NT texts related to discipleship and imitation imagery, while it didn't linger on the scriptures, brought them...

"Jesus is here calling into being a community of voluntary commitment, willing for the sake of its calling to take upon it the hostili...

I admittedly am hesitant about wholeheartedly embracing Yoder's jubilee thesis, at least not as the overarching theme of Jesus' proc...

Yeah, about the last few lines of my final Shenk post... I swear, there has been midweek diligence, albeit for another class. Back to the bl...

My anabaptist leanings are strong, yet tempered by the concern that the ethic of discipleship tends to remove folks from society, particular...

Larry Miller's chapter on the church as a messianic society deeply resonated with me, and I particularly appreciated the closing words ...

Kuitse's chapter makes the necessary connection between pneumatology and missiology, and I found him insightful, particularly in making ...

Shank spends a good bit of his chapter on Jesus' messianic mission focusing upon the servant-elements of Jesus' mission, taking into...

In chapter two of The Transfiguration of Mission , David Shank suggests that we have historically drawn our Christology from Greek thought, ...

Tonight I was reminded of just how much a two-week intensive class changes one's routine. After class this afternoon and evening, I ret...

Came in a few minutes late today (actually 30), and entered an ongoing discussion about time. Jesus' proclamation of the anticipated ki...

05.01.06 Wess taught today, going through some material he'd put together around the Lord's Prayer, and bridging missional practice ...

The last post centered around practice theory; this one centers around that theory practiced. Ryan asked the question of what redeemed king...