Every tradition has its surprising voices, its thinkers who look at things slightly differently than most. Evangelicalism is no exception. Many surprising evangelical voices end up being embarrassments of one sort or another: everyone can choose their favorite example of this phenomenon Rather than seeking to expose these sorts of negative surprises, this book explores the surprising voice of the late evangelical theologian A. J. Conyers. Conyers's political theology is a resource for a robust evangelical theopolitical imagination. By learning from Conyers, evangelicals can overcome common...
Every tradition has its surprising voices, its thinkers who look at things slightly differently than most. Evangelicalism is no exception. Many surpri...
About the Contributor(s): Kimlyn J. Bender is Associate Professor of Theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. He is the coeditor of Theology as Conversation: The Significance of Dialogue in Historical and Contemporary Theology (Eerdmans).
About the Contributor(s): Kimlyn J. Bender is Associate Professor of Theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. He is the c...
How can we speak about God without assuming that God is nothing but our own speaking, nothing but our cultures effort to name what cannot be named? How can we deny that our speaking of God is always culturally located? To answer these questions, we need to pay close attention to what we mean by culture, and how we use this very complex term both in our everyday language and especially in the language of faith. Culture is an exceedingly complex term that nearly everyone uses, but no one is sure what it means. This work examines various uses of the term culture in theology today.
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How can we speak about God without assuming that God is nothing but our own speaking, nothing but our cultures effort to name what cannot be named? Ho...
How is God sovereign with respect to creation? Does creation affect God? Does God suffer or change because of creation? If so, how is this related to Christology? Why have these questions been so controversial in evangelical theology, even costing some people their jobs? This book is a collection of lectures given to the Forum for Evangelical Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Six theologians answer the questions above from a variety of perspectives. They draw on resources including the church fathers, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Jurgen Moltmann, process theology, and open...
How is God sovereign with respect to creation? Does creation affect God? Does God suffer or change because of creation? If so, how is this related to ...
