Mark Buchanan promises to investigate some areas of life which are not prominently featured in systematic theologies. This should be interesting. He starts with interruptions. Systematic Theology is a central part of the curriculum of any seminary. Systematic Theology takes the messiness, the sloppiness, the ambiguity of our God-thoughts and puts it all into neat …
Cross posted from Jo at Grasa Mesak: I have been reading the text of Arlindo Marcal’s wonderful new children’s book, ‘Istória kona-ba José Mehidór’, and attempting an English translation. I cannot pretend that my Tetun is good enough for me to serious believe that I could translate this myself into English. But I do know …
What does Deep & Wide (Andy Stanley, Zondervan 2012) promise? Deep & Wide’s subtitle is Creating Churches Unchurched People Love To Attend, which pretty much sums it up. Stanley has planted a church in Atlanta which now has 33,000 people attending a number of campuses, so something’s going on. In five sections he provides some …
For those of you interested, Tim Keller and Sam Shammas have compiled The New City Catechism, a fifty-two Q&A catechism that draws from a variety of already existing reformed catechisms to synthesise a body of work which embraces historical theological teaching while seeking to address contemporary concerns. Read about the project at The Gospel Coalition. …
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