Journal articleThe Christian Century · 2013
The used books I order from Amazon for $.01 plus shipping often come with personal endearments and messages of encouragement written on the title page, as well as sage and not-so-sage comments scrawled in the margins, all of which now belong to me. At the ...
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Journal articleThe Christian Century · 2012
First the body is reverently undressed, and any wounds on it are carefully cleansed. According to the witness of the prison doctor, before he went to the gallows Bonhoeffer removed his prison clothes and knelt in prayer. [...] they also bypass the profound ...
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Journal articleInterpretation Journal of Bible and Theology · January 1, 2005
The pastoral office is God's way of helping the church discern its true vocation in the world. Before the ordained ministry is a job or a profession, it is a gift from above. ...
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Journal articleThe Christian Century · 2005
It might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life. The thing I mean can be seen ... in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially ...
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Journal articleThe Christian Century · 2004
For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh [the flesh of ministry]. ...
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Journal articleThe Christian Century · 2003
Within seconds of beginning, King was echoing [Langston Hughes], W. E. B. DuBois and other militant intellectuals when he characterized the Negro as an "exile" in his own land. The first half of the address, which King read in a stern and businesslike mann ...
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Journal articleThe Christian Century · 2002
BUT ON THE WHOLE, recent interest in narrative preaching has changed the terms of the law-gospel debate. In narrative preaching the mode is less kerygmatic, less existentially decisive, less outraged by evil. The narrative preacher does not explicitly rive ...
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Journal articleThe Christian Century · 2001
You can't imagine this, [Shane] and [Leeta], but let me tell you a little about your future: at 28, Shane is drinking eight or ten beers a day and already daydreaming about retiring from his job on the second shift at the glassworks. Leeta is so exhausted ...
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Journal articleInterpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology · April 1996
The renewal of preaching will not begin with the discovery of a new form or style in which to cast the sermon. It never has. Our effectiveness as preachers depends not on the originality of our rhetorical choices but our conformity to language that ...
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Journal articleTheology Today · January 1, 1989
“The beautiful thing about Movement preaching was that every sermon presented the possibility of a focused response. Because every sermon was an expression of God's solidarity with the Movement, there was always something its hearers could do, hope, or suf ...
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Journal articleInterpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology · April 1987
As the expression of God's radical pastoral care, the Sermon on the Mount can only be interpreted as communities of Christians attempt to live it. ...
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Journal articleInterpretation · January 1, 1984
Recent interest in "story" as a form of religious discourse pervades theology and church life. Despite its universal appeal, story has its limits, which are fourfold: 1) preoccupation with story promotes aestheticism at the expense of historical tradition ...
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Journal articleEvangelische Theologie · November 1, 1983
The universality of Luther's appeal raises the question: Who are the most appropriate dialogue partners for Luther and Lutherans? dialogue with Luther occurs at many levels within the church, but in theology's conversations with non-theists, Luther's theo ...
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Journal articleChristian Century · April 2, 1980
So long as people continue to work at life, despise death and hope for eternity, the perennial anguish at preaching's irrelevance need not lapse into a terminal hopelessness. [Excerpt]. ...
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Journal articleCurrents in Theology and Mission · June 1, 1977
Dean Kelley's book, Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (1972), attributes the growth of the sects and conservative denominations to their rigidity and authoritarianism. The more flexible and ecumenical a church group is, he claims, the more it will ...
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Journal articleChristian Century · April 9, 1975
Although the eschatology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has a utopian phase comparable to that of Karl Marx, it is actually a two-stage exchatology, progressing from socialist principles reminiscent of the Marxist millennium to the abandonment of earth in h ...
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