Tag: theology
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Creation Groans; But Why? (RJS)
Jesus Creed: Creation Groans; But Why? (RJS) RJS is a Chemistry professor and a regular blogger at Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed blog. It is a fascinating take on the Romans 8 passage where Paul talks about all creation groaning. She writes: … Most of the commentaries on Romans 8 I've looked at trace the reference…
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How the Church Fails Business People – 2
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 19, 2023.) The business world frequently hinders our integration of faith with work, but the church also creates its own obstacles. We continue today with John Knapp’s How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can…
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What Good’s a Theologian?
Jesus Creed: What Good’s a Theologian? Inside the lecture room we make a distinction between biblical scholars and theologians. The former are either Old Testament or New Testament, and the latter specialize in systems of thought, whether they focus on telling us what theologians teach (Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Barth) or what is to be taught…
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What does business literature have to do with theology?
Call and Response Blog: Roger Owens: What does business literature have to do with theology? Questioning the place of pagan philosophy in Christian theology, Tertullian asked, “What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?” The question his heirs are asking today is, “What does Harvard Business School have to do with Duke Divinity School?” Many…
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Christian Theologians Prepare for Extraterrestrial Life
Wired: Christian Theologians Prepare for Extraterrestrial Life Little green men might shock the secular public. But the Catholic Church would welcome them as brothers. That's what Vatican chief astronomer and papal science adviser Gabriel Funes explained in a recent article in L'Osservatore Romano, the newsletter of the Vatican Observatory (translated here). His conclusion might surprise…