"Remythologizing" is a mouthful of a word, and it may scare people a few away from Kevin Vanhoozer's fascinating book Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (2010: Cambridge University Press). Vanhoozer explains in great detail what he means by it, and I won't rehearse that here. But one of the reasons he picked the title...
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Pre-debate-
Mitt Romney must turn the tide. Newt has the momentum.
Here we go.
Newt gets to go first. Why?
Reagan as Newt. Washington establishment is uncomfortable.
Newt is not going to respond because he is above it.
Mitt got under Newt's skin. "You are a bad historian . . ." That is a lame response.
Santorum says he has...
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A love for the soul of the Republican party necessitates an evangelical vote for Mitt Romney.
The Republican party was born appealing to northern evangelical voters and those voters helped elect Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln led them in a great crusade to save the Union and free the slaves. Those old-line voters still exist in states like Iowa and Oh...
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The long time reader of these primary pieces will know our family has not been keen on the Gingrich candidacy. We think him unfit to serve in the office of President, but that doesn't mean we do not appreciate the good he has done. The family rule has been that if we oppose a person to think of ten nice things to say about him. We owe him that as a...
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Marriage forms families and families make a civilization. Many of us fail to live up to the high ideal of marriage, but the solution is not to declare our failures variations of the ideal and move on.
Marriage has been between one man and one woman for all of American history: our romantic ideal. Every part of this definition is under assault as...
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Vanhoozer says “My wager is that this brief detour into the dispute over the meaning of Dostoevsky’s authorship will yield theological dividends for understanding God’s communicative relation to the world.” (p. 311) Indeed it does, in two ways.
First, it sharpens the meaning of divine authorship in a way that clarifies the God-world rel...
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Reading in modern liberal theology, you begin to notice some recurring themes. Especially when liberal theologians get around to describing God, they tend to emphasize a few characteristics. You find these pervasive patterns of thought: that God is deeply mysterious, but is always opposed to oppression; that God is intimately and immanently near to...
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(I watch this debate with the family ranging from 73 to 17. We opine. Live blog, pardon many errors!)
Marriage
Newt is asked about his marriage.
He argues that it is not an issue and that it is a network problem for bringing it up. Newt answered the question calmly during the day and then ramped it up for the audience.
His "rage" is f...
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The Civil War, I am being told, was not about slavery.
It is true that there were other causes for the War, but the fundamental cause was the desire of Southern men and women to be secure in their property and the property threatened was slave property.
Don't believe it?
Since Wikipedia is down and you cannot check on Buffy episode titl...
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