Pannenberg combines the Old Testament witness in Genesis with Paul’s statements about Jesus Christ as the image of God in order to develop a Christian understanding of divine likeness. Paul understands that the image of God in Christ, the new Adam, to be that which all others must be transformed into and that which [...]

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This week’s episode is flat-out super sweet.  John Dominic Crossan is our guest and we spend most of the time talking about ideas surrounding his newest solo book, God and Empire.  Crossan was in town for a lecture series put on by WFU divinity school and Centenary United Methodist here in Winston Salem.  I was [...]

 

 Homebrewed Christianity 8 "John Dominic Crossan on God & Empire" [51:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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My buddy Aaron Stoller had a great idea, list off ten texts that make up your personal canon at the moment.  Go here to see the rules and then post your own and tell me.
1. Counting Crows, Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings
2. Clarence Jordan, Parables of Liberation
3. Vigilantes of Love, Audible Sigh 
4. Scot McKnight, Jesus [...]

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E. Scott Jones is a minister at the Cathedral of Hope in Oklahoma City and has a PhD in Philosophy from Oklahoma University. His lecture ‘The Theology of Pizzazz” (here in text) was recorded at Table Talk, a student group Chad and I helped start while we were at Wake Forest University Divinity [...]

 

 Homebrewed Christianity 7 "Scott Jones: A Theology of Pizzazz" [51:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I co-wrote this tune with brother Wesley, had a little inspiration by this book, and wanted to sing a worship song that centered on the redemptive work of the God who is love in the world. It is my Youth Group’s favorite song. I even heard it on a student’s Ipod after ’solider [...]

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The anthropology of Pannenberg focuses on the dignity and misery of human existence.  Here Pannenberg retrieves and develops an understanding of original sin and also human destiny in light of the work of the Son, so that sin and death do not eternally prohibit God’s gift of life found in the fellowship of God.

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A Muxtape Competition.  My friends Mike Lee is getting a Muxtape Competition going and I can’t think of an idea better than this one on the planet.  So Go HERE and make your 5 song mix (or mux) tape for the first competition.
The First Category is : THE LEAST_UNDERSTATED VOCAL STYLINGS
Get on this and tell [...]

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Dr. Tupper and I are doing a conversation on eschatology in the intro. theology class at WFUDS tomorrow and these two quotes are pulled out of his book.  I may write out my notes and post them later this week.
The vision of an eschatological tomorrow on the other side of death stretches the imagination to [...]

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So Chad’s Macbook died while we were trying to upload the newest podcast.  He is getting a new one with his hard drive mirrored onto it, so once the people at the mac store hook him up we will hook you up.  Until then check out some web hotness and  remember not to use you [...]

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Russell Moore, a president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, came up with a spicy bit of slander when he called Brian Mclaren ’serpent-sensitive.’   The Baptist Press has an article on this gem of an observation that you can read.  When I read it this is what I thought.
Russell Moore Thought:
1. Brian McLaren is a [...]

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