Growing up in a charismatic Uniting church in western Sydney, Australia, the only women I noticed who were active in professional ministry were missionaries. Sensing a call to God’s work, I subsequently (wrongly)…
The tenuous relationship of the modern pastor and modern theologian is evidence enough: something has changed in the relationship between theology and the church. Even a brief historical survey of theologians past…
At the recent 40th Anniversary of the Society of Christian Philosophers Nicholas Wolterstorff, one of the SCP’s founding members, gave a moving speech mapping the history of the society and reflecting on areas for…
Coming to work for an academic publisher fresh out of seminary, I often found myself starstruck. Not even a year earlier, I was nose-deep in the latest and greatest books in biblical-theological studies; now here I was…
What, if anything, distinguishes analytic theology (as a way to study of God and all things in relation to God) from a generic philosophy of religion (as a systematic study of religious ideas)?[1] Working within the…
If you look closely at several recent efforts to defend the penal substitution theory of atonement, particularly among popular audiences, there seems to be a (mostly) common argumentative strategy. It consists of…
Each month Blogos features an article created in partnership with the Logos Institute’s Logia initiative. This month’s Logia post is by Logia Director Christa McKirland. More information about Logia and additional…
In a recent article in History Today, the Oxford historian, Eleanor Parker, draws attention to what she calls “the myth of the solitary scholar.” (See…
Each month Blogos features an article created in partnership with the Logos Institute’s Logia initiative. This month’s Logia post is by Stephanie Nicole Nordby. More information about Logia and additional articles…
Growing up in the Bible belt as I did brings you into contact with a wide range of ideas of what constitutes the Christian Gospel. Strange as it might sound, one of the worst accusations someone could have said of me…
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