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The Church, Embracing Grace and Racism 2
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xscot mcknight
Let us define racism as an ideology of superiority in which a person, due to a biological or physiological or cultural condition, which are tagged as inherent to the person, is systemically considered inferior, leading both to ideas and policies of exclusion. Thus, as is found in Emerson and Smith’s influential book, Divided by Faith,…
Franke’s Character of Theology 6
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xscot mcknight
This is our last post on Franke’s book, The Character of Theology. Here’s my overall assessment: The book exposes themes that penetrate deeply into the fabric of doing theology and deserves to be read, especially by students who have teachers who disagree with Franke. Some kind of endorsement, I know, but Franke puts on the…
Franke’s Character of Theology 5
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xscot mcknight
This fifth installment of Franke’s Character of Theology deals with the second half of chapter 4: The Task of Theology. A brief on the second half of chp 4 Franke surveys how Scripture and tradition relate, and proposes three models (from Heiko Oberman): T1 (Scripture and tradition are indistinguishable), T2 (they are separable and equal…
Luncheon today
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xscot mcknight
My good friend, and both excellent evangelist and author, Garry Poole, invited me to a luncheon with Brian McLaren.
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