Tag: John Stackhouse
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Best of It: Introducing Part III – “Making the Best of It”
[Series Index] With the previous post, we completed our review of the first two parts of John Stackhouse's Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World. Part I (Chapter 1) reviewed Richard Niebuhr's five-part typology from Christ and Culture. Part II (Chapters 2-4) offered resources for thinking about Christian realism by reviewing…
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Best of It: Dietrich Bonhoeffer – The Christian and the Church in and for the World (Part 3)
[Series Index] Today we conclude our review of the chapter on Dietrich Bonhoeffer in John Stackhouse's Making the Best of It.Religionless Christianity. Here Bonhoeffer is thinking of religion in the sense of trying to find timeless, universal truths in Christianity just as we might in other religions – it is an exercise in getting answers…
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Best of It: Dietrich Bonhoeffer – The Christian and the Church in and for the World (Part 1)
[Series Index] We've been discussing Making the Best of It by John Stackhouse. So far, we've revisited Richard Neibuhr's Christ and Culture typology, and we've reviewed two of the three theologians Stackhouse believes we can draw on as resources for thinking about Christian realism (i.e., C. S. Lewis and Reinhold Niebuhr.) Today we turn to…
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Best of It: C. S. Lewis – The Christian Individual
[Series Index] [Today we move into Part 2 of Making the Best of It by John Stackhouse. We will look at three twentieth-century theologians Stackhouse considers resources for recovering Christian realism: C. S. Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He devotes about forty pages to each of these men. I aim to extract some salient…
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Best of It: Revisiting Niebuhr’s Typology
[Series Index] Today we revisit the famous (for some, infamous) five-part typology from Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture as summarized in John Stackhouse's Making the Best of It. Niebuhr claims that any of the following types can be appropriate in certain circumstances. They are presented in the order they appear in Niebuhr's book: Christ Against…
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Best of It: Definitions
[Series Index] John Stackhouse lays out some important definitions to begin Chapter 1 of Making the Best of It. Culture Culture is the response we give to two "make" questions when thinking about a particular society: What do they make? What do they make of it? As Martin Marty wrote, culture is "everything humans do…
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Making the Best of It – Introduction
[Series Index] Today we begin a lengthy dialog with, Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World, by John Stackhouse. Stackhouse reminds us of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's question, "Who is Jesus Christ, for us, today?" He reminds us that in all we do, we start with Christ. His identity and mission will constitute…
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Stackhouse It Is.
Earlier this week, I asked readers for advice on which book I should review next. Blog comments and emails came out 2 to 1 in favor of John Stackhouse's Making the Best of It: Following Christin in the Real World. So, Stackhouse, it is. I expect to review John Stapleford's Bulls, Bears and Golden Calves:…
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The Role of Self-Interest in Christian Ethics
The role self-interest plays in ethical decisions has been a subject we have repeatedly visited here at Kruse Kronicle (especially regarding economic issues.) See here for an example. Self-interest is not selfishness. When we teach our children to look both ways before crossing the street or to eat their vegetables, we teach them to be…