(14) Marc Cortez announces a new blog written by Western Seminary faculty.
(13) Nick Norelli reviews The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown by Kostenberger, et al.
(12) Steve Hall explores a “theology of Christian hospitality”. See also Pt. 2 and Pt. 3.
(11) Ben Witherington III talks about capital punishment.
(10) Todd Miles answers the question, “What about those who died before hearing the Gospel?”
(9) Peter Enns tells us why it is good to doubt God. Also, he wrote a short article on “reading Ecclesiastes Christianly”.
(8) Brian Gronewoller explores Christianity’s geographical shift.
(7) Tony Jones blames evangelicals for the emerging movement.
(6) Mark Noll explains Protestantism today.
(5) Mason Slates proposes we think of Scripture as sacrament.
(4) Walter Brueggemann relates “the oracle of newness” in Jeremiah 31.31-34 to the Occupy Movement.
(3) Darrell Bock discusses language in the first century.
(2) Daniel Kirk tells us why the Synoptic Problem does matter when there are people starving in the world.
(1) Derek Ouellette juxtaposes Scot McKnight’s understanding of the Gospel with N.T. Wright’s.
October 29, 2011 at 8:06 am
No offence to Tony Jones, but are people still reading books connected to the emerging or emergent movements anymore? I think those 15 min. of fame are over. I don’t say this as one who disagrees or agrees with them, I just don’t think their ideas carry the same weight they did 5 years ago.
When he says “evangelicals” are to blame for the emerging movement. I would ask: “Can you define evangelical for me?” This is now known to be a VERY diverse group. Hardly homogeneous.
The other question I have is: Did Tony write that article almost as a post-mortem of the emerging movement? Like, now that it’s just about past its time, we can identify some trends from the movement…?
October 29, 2011 at 11:00 am
@Greg: Whenever I see events related to the emerging church I joke to myself that I wonder if the Jesus People will be present as well. The emerging church has lost a lot of steam in my opinion. It has morphed quite a bit to include some hybrid of social gospel liberal Protestantism, and pieces of evangelicalism, but I don’t know that it has a recognizable identity anymore.
What Jones said that did make sense is how he rooted the emerging church in evangelical approaches to youth ministry. I can see the cause and effect there.