- Church and Postmodern Culture has been hosting a great 6-part conversation (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6) on Nathan Kerr’s Christ, History and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission. Be sure to also check out Halden’s posts on Kerr’s book too: Mission and Apocalyptic Ecclesiology and The Church as Polis? Some Biblical Reflections
- The latest edition of Journal of Reformed Theology (3/1, 2009) is out and includes articles by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Christoph Schwöbel , Robert Letham, Dirkie Smit, Steve Holmes and Seung Goo Lee on the Trinity
- “Where are the Protestants?”
- Registration is now open for the 2009 Karl Barth Conference at Princeton Seminary
- Lots of Barth-related book reviews:
- Christophe Chalamet reviews Stefan Holtmann’s “Karl Barth als Theologe der Neuzeit”
- William Barnett reviews Eberhard Busch’s “Barth”
- David W. Congdon reviews P.H. Brazier’s “Barth and Dostoevsky”
- David W. Congdon also reviews R. Dale Dawson’s “The Resurrection in Karl Barth”
- John L. Drury reviews Stephen Wigley’s “Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar: A Critical Engagement”
- Shannon Nicole Smythe reviews “A Shorter Commentary on Romans by Karl Barth
- Shannon Nicole Smythe also reviews Donald Wood’s “Barth’s Theology of Interpretation”
- Jason T. Ingalls reviews Matt Jenson’s “The Gravity of Sin: Augustine, Luther, and Barth on Homo Incurvatus in Se”
- Jason T. Ingalls and W. Travis McMaken review Willimon’s “Conversations with Barth on Preaching” and Yocum’s “Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth”
- Alexander Massmann reviews Matthias D. Wüthrich’s “Gott und das Nichtige: Zur Rede vom Nichtigen ausgehend von Karl Barths KD § 50”
- W. Travis McMaken reviews Paul T. Nommo’s “Being in Action: The Theological Shape of Barth’s Ethical Vision”
- Shane Wilkins reviews Neil MacDonald’s “Karl Barth and the Strange New World within the Bible: Barth, Wittgenstein and the Metadilemmas of the Enlightenment”
- Byron Smith posts on Dying for the half-hearted and the corrupt
- Peter Liethart asks if there’s not even something right about the vision of Christendom
- Ben Myers posts a great quote from William Cavanaugh on Church and eucharist
- Steve Holmes asks What is evangelism?
- A wonderful excerpt from a new biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945. Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance is on its way in October. How awesome is that!
- Unmasking lies about Picasso
- John Pilger on the loss of freedom in totalitarian Britain
- Lawmakers Debate Establishing “Truth Commission” on Bush Admin Torture, Rendition and Domestic Spying: ‘… How did we get to a point where we were holding a legal US resident for more than five years in a military brig without ever bringing charges against him? How did we get to a point where Abu Ghraib happened? How did we get to a point where the United States government tried to make Guantanamo Bay a law-free zone, in order to deny accountability for our actions? How did we get to a point where our premier intelligence agency, the CIA, destroyed nearly a hundred videotapes with evidence of how detainees were being interrogated? How did we get to a point where the White House could say, “If we tell you to do it, even if it breaks the law, it’s alright, because we’re above the law”?’
- Italians get together to remember Calvin
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