Method w/ Tripp Fuller: • You broke some of the rules of German Protestant Systematic Theology that would have been part of your theological education. “Every consistent theological system lays claim to totality… in principle one has to be able to say everything… everything has to fit in w/o contradiction… an aesthetic charm… this is…
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Moltmann Conversation: Lightning Round
• JPII: He was a good pope.• Pannenburg: he is a very dear friend and opponent• Bonhoffer: died too early• Alfred North Whitehead: very complicated to read• Derrida: hmm… I think postmodernity is just another form of modernity.. okay – we have universal dangers which we can meet only united, we can not split up…
Moltmann Conversation – 1: Method/Life
• Talking about theological method is like listening to someone clearing their throat – if you do it too long, people will leave • Easy to tell, difficult to live through these years. Born in 20’s in Hamburg, secular family of educators, no connections to a church – NO church in Hamburg, • Went to…
Moltmann Conversation – Notes from Opening with John Franke
1. Job of theology – what is God doing in the world today? in the church today?2. Have you ever noticed Christians don’t and have never agreed? especially on BIG issues! 3. How do we make sense of that? 4. It’s not THE Christian tradition, but many traditions and ways of Christ.5. Franke hopes in…
Moltmann Conversation – Notes from 101 w/ Danielle Shroyer
Moltmann 101 I. impressionistic theologian (nice analogy) II. LifeA. Hamburg, Germany, secular parents, commune?, spent time gardening on Sunday morningsB. Loved Einstein, mathematics, science – apathetically joined the Hitler Youth – but was a terrible soldier, German POW – learned about God in the POW educational campC. Struck by the power of the story when…
theological hats
In the few days before this emergent village theological conversation event thingy I was kind of nervous. I was thinking about the fact that it has literally been like two years since I read a theological book. I’ve read… a few books between now and then, but nothing with the kind of depth that we…
thinking ecumenically and maybe a little politically
Lately, I have been having quite a few conversations, theologically and politically with fellow pastors. It would be fair to say that my current colleagues are more conservative than my colleagues in seminary or college. And what amazed me was the fear that “liberal” colleagues expressed 8 years ago over the Bush administration are the…
Who Would Jesus Smack Down?
This morning one of our small groups met and I started Joyce Rupp’s “The Cup of Our Lives” with them. It thought it went really well! I’m also now up to 5 youth and a male chaperone besides myself who are able to go on our youth mission trip this summer. Which is fantastic! I…