Comments on David Walsh’s The Priority of the Person
It was comforting to read this particular book, with its crisp and concentrated expression of Walsh’s Personprojekt. It gave me the sense that I was more or…
It was comforting to read this particular book, with its crisp and concentrated expression of Walsh’s Personprojekt. It gave me the sense that I was more or…
History has an ineradicable place in Christian theology.[1] In the Judeo-Christian tradition, history is the “place” where God’s revelation and offer of salvation is made to human…
It will be useful to return to the theme of time and space, which we noted in our second chapter on the New Testament materials. We recall…
We have endeavored to practice the craft of biblical interpretation along the lines of our participative approach, on the premise that all forms of interpretation might be…
Readers will likely know that Jesus studies and Christology, like other fields of study, exist within an intense conflict of approaches, stemming from the social and historical…
What was most surprising to you as this book’s author? There may yet be further surprises for me as time passes and I think back upon it.…
Your Kin-dom Come: The Lord’s Prayer in a Global Age. William Thompson-Uberuaga. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2018. The purpose of this book, William Thompson-Uberuaga tells us…
I have placed “finality” in quotation marks, since I am not sure it is part of Voegelin’s lexicon. Still I believe it is roughly equivalent to the…
Being, Becoming, and Metaphysics The reader will have noticed that we have used the language of “being” throughout this entire book. The book’s commitment to history and…
History and Place, Historiogenesis and Geogenesis We have seen how our contemporary cross-cultural, global horizon has introduced some new challenges to Christian faith, some of which are…
Political Theology: An Introduction. Michael Kirwan. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009. Breadth and suggestiveness recommend this book to us. The breadth is reflective of the map…