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Critical Theology: Introducing an Agenda for an Age of Global Crisis

“Political theology” signifies two types of inquiry, concerning either the political implications of theological thought or the theological presuppositions of political theory. Recent surveys of the subdiscipline have tended to adopt the former approach. For instance, An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology (William B. Eerdmans, 2011), edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Jeffrey W. Bailey,…
Andrew Van’t Land
January 15, 2018
Review and Response

A Response to Ben DeVan

Ironically, for many Christians, the IVP “Behaving Badly” trilogy focuses on what is essentially their “trinity”: God, Jesus, and Paul. As much as I love Paul, I would never put him on the same level as the God of the Old Testament (YHWH), or the God of the New (Jesus). But perhaps the fact that…
David T. Lamb
January 15, 2018
Extended Review

A Response to Rick Kennedy

Rick Kennedy does me a great honor by reviewing not only my most recent book, but also, in a minor key, two prior ones and labeling them together a “trilogy.” Neither fame nor fortune have followed in my case, but I am pleased to be found, in Kennedy’s judgment, of writing a “thriller ... intellectual…
Thomas Albert Howard
January 15, 2018
Extended Review

The Christian College and the Meaning of Academic Freedom — An Extended Review

William C. Ringenberg’s The Christian College and the Meaning of Academic Freedom: Truth-Seeking in Community is a helpful read for academics and academic administrators, whether employed at faith-based or secular institutions. The author maps out tensions that arise around academic and religious freedom and, using case studies and historical insights, brings clarity and balance to…
Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham
January 15, 2018
Review and Response

God, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul Behaving Badly—A Review Essay

In his Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, the eighteenth-century founder of Methodism, John Wesley, strove for biblical commentary that penetrated deeply yet remained concise and clear. Discontent with mere intellectual insights, Wesley yearned to assist the “learned and unlearned” to understand better God’s ways so that they would progress in joy and character development…
Benjamin B. DeVan
January 15, 2018
Extended Review

From Bubble to Bridge —An Extended Review

Lauren Anders Visser teaches in the Communication Arts department at Trinity Christian College and serves co-pastor of Jacob’s Well Church Community in Evergreen Park, IL. In the foreword to From Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World, Eboo Patel references an increasing diversity and tension in society, and he states, “All of us…
November 15, 2017
Extended Review

Making All Things New —An Extended Review

Adam Perez and Glenn Stallsmith are Th.D. students in liturgical studies at Duke Divinity School. One of us (Stallsmith) had a high school chemistry teacher who displayed a bumper sticker in her classroom: “What in the world ISN’T chemistry?” Benjamin L. Gladd and Matthew S. Harmon would like pastors to ask a similar question when…