27 posts tagged miroslav volf

So here are the thoughts of THA VOLF from his teaching at ETS. Yesterday. Please get some coffee, so some more blood would be in your brain, and remove any object you could throw at your monitor… he is stretching the borders… he might make you mad Here comes his thoughts… Do Christians and Muslims Believe in the same GOD? - I don’t want to answer this question.

In an impressive display of solidarity, intelligence, and single-mindedness, a group of Evangelical leaders recently drafted “An Evangelical Manifesto” which attempts to “address the confusions and corruptions that have attended the term Evangelical” and “to clarify where we stand on issues that

Sometimes God surprises us. Sometimes? Well, maybe he surprises us more often than that. Or it could be too that things that should leave us surprised and even gasping in wonder instead become commonplace to the point of being mundane. Those of us who follow Jesus can, over time, come to take certain realities for granted.

I hope that anyone reading this tonight (Saturday, April 3) isn't from my congregation, because that means they'll be getting a double dose of sermonizing. I posted another sermon recently on God as Giver and this one is the follow-up to that one. It's on spiritual gifts. Hope it provides some food for mind and heart.

Following his review of some of Calvin’s thoughts on the poor in Chapter 4 of Until Justice and Peace Embrace (to which the page numbers in this post refer, unless noted otherwise), Wolterstorff turns to the restating of some of the same themes by Dutch Christian statesman Abraham Kuyper.

I have been recently thinking through the nature of the ethical relation between people in the work of Miroslav Volf and Emmanuel Levinas. I have come to somewhat of a wall in my thinking and would love any thoughts and engagement that anyone would like to contribute.

As many of you know, bluechristian (a.k.a. Jon Trott) is part of the community Jesus People USA, in turn the sponsor of Cornerstone Festival. This year's line-up of outstanding speakers can be found on the official CornerstoneXchange Seminar program page.

This is Vanhoozer quoting Miroslav Volf on the practical implications of studying systematic theology. “Miroslav Volf rightly says that ‘at the heart of every good theology lies not simply a plausible intellectual vision but more important a compelling account of a way of life.’ The ultimate purpose

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie As Ericka and I prepare to move to Ottawa next week, my mind is drawn towards the projects that lay before me this fall. Working alongside and for the church is going to be, I think, a great challenge. I love the church so much, get frustrated with her so easily, and want to strive to see her in better health and in better spirits.

In this fourth (read 1, 2, and 3) of four Kistemaker lectures, Dr. Volf examines the question of whether Muslims and Christians share the same love of neighbor as expressed in the A Common Word (ACW) and the Yale Center Response (YCR) documents.