The other day a friend let me know that he had read Mark Strom’s Reframing Paul: Conversations in Grace and Community, something he had been meaning to do since reading my review first published here in June of 2005. Going back tonight and rereading that review myself has reminded me of just how earth-moving that [...]

Another great quote from Character of Theology, this time from author John Franke himself:
The church, the community of Christ’s disciples, is sent into the world to be the representative of the mission of God after the pattern of the sending of the Son by the Father and the Spirit by the Father and the Son. [...]

On this final weekend before the beginning of a new semester at Westminster Theological Seminary, I’m desperately trying to finish several books on my “want-to-read” list before they are eclipsed by the “have-to-reads” of course requirements. (Not that many of our have-to-reads wouldn’t be want-to-reads anyway!) One of the books I’m finally getting through is [...]

Joel Garver’s Wright and the Emergent Church is a solid refutation of Richard D. Phillip’s celebration of the out-of-context quotation as an art form on the Reformation21 blog. Phillips pounced on Justin Taylor’s insinuation that Bishop Wright and the Emergent Church are at least dating, if not engaged, because the back of Wright’s latest book [...]

Was the Reformation of the sixteenth century the “final word” of God’s post-canonical work in his church? Some of my fellow seminary students seem to think so. One of them recently remarked to me in the bookstore that it is “impossible” that any modern scholarship or movement in the church could make anything more than [...]

Steve Bush’s article A Different Kind of Evangelical on the emergent-us site has helped me realize that, while I definitely have increasingly “post-conservative” leanings or sympathies, there are things included in his broad definition about which I guess I’m still pretty “conservative.”

Keith DeRose has posted part one of a planned two part response to an interaction between him and Brian McLaren over to what extent (if any) there has been a major historical turn into a postmodern era, and to what extent it has or should effect the church. I was encouraged by the irenic* tone [...]

As you’ve probably noticed, it’s not enough to be a just a follower of Jesus Christ anymore. When I first enter a Christian chat forum or comment on a blog, everyone wants to sniff out what I am. Reformed? Arminian? Liberal? Conservative?
So it’s time for the Foolish Sage to foolishly run up his colors, put [...]

Reformation 21, the online journal of The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals has a review of John Franke’s The Character of Theology.
Steve Bush responds here.
Deja vu all over again.

The Word Made Fresh: A Call for a Renewal of the Evangelical Spirit
To be evangelical is to be committed to the Lordship of Jesus Christ-the Word incarnate-in all areas of life and to the supreme authority of the canonical Scriptures-the written Word-in all matters of faith and practice. To be evangelical also entails being characterized [...]