Elaine Storkey has a new piece over at the fulcrum website looking at what the future may hold for the Church and culture at large. The closing paragraph ends with a call to action and cultural engagement. I agree with this and simply want to comment that evangelical leaders are (aim to be) pretty good [...]
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Elaine Storkey: The Next Decade
Posted in Mission, Neo Calvinism, Storkey: Jesus and Politics, Technology, anglican, kingdom of God, neocalvinist, reformational, world view, worldview on January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Who gets to narrate the world?
Posted in Book Review, Books, Mission, Neo Calvinism, kingdom of God, neocalvinist, ordinand, reformational, world view, worldview, tagged Humour on October 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Jake Belder, via his blog, introduced me to the book ‘Who gets to narrate the world?’ by Robert E. Webber. My copy arrived today and I have ploughed through the first few chapters. So far, so good. Webber encourages us to look at the comprehensive biblical narrative which is desperately needed as Christians face real [...]
Deep Church By Jim Belcher: Part 3
Posted in Book Review, Books, Calvinism, Mission, Neo Calvinism, methodology, neocalvinist, postmodernity, reformational, worldview, tagged belcher, c.s. lewis, Carson, dooyeweerd, driscoll, emergent church, Emerging, kuyper, Piper, van til on October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Chapter 4 is entitled ‘Deep Truth’ and explores issues of epistemology. He thinks that traditionalists have often misrepresented postmodernism and have failed to understand postmodernity as emergent leaders understand it. Is postmodernity in all forms the enemy? Lstenign to the rhetoric of some evangelicals you would think so. However, he also criticises the emergent church [...]
Deep Church by Jim Belcher: Part One
Posted in Book Review, Books, Mission, Neo Calvinism, Soteriology, Trinity College, ordinand, postmodernity, reformational, tagged Dan Kimball, Deep Church, Emergent, Emerging, Grudem, Jim Belcher, Mark Driscoll, Piper, Rob Bell on September 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The librarian at Trinity college, Bristol is excellent. I told her about the book ‘Deep Church’ by Jim Belcher which had recieved numerous good reviews. She ordered a copy which I was able to pick up today.
The book explores a path, which he calls Deep Church, which can be taken which avoids both traditional evangelicalism [...]
Tasty Worldview Quote
Posted in Historiography, Neo Calvinism, methodology, neocalvinist, reformational, world view, worldview on May 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Naugle, in his significant study of the concept of worldview, describes the crucial role of stories and meta-narratives..
‘These stories that establish a symbolic world do indeed guide all forms of human activity. Worldview narratives create a particular kind of ‘mind’, and serve in a normative fashion as ‘controlling stories’. The most fundamental stories associated [...]
Worldview Podcasts with a Difference
Posted in Mission, Mp3, Neo Calvinism, Technology, neocalvinist, reformational on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My good friend Rocky (aka Mark Roques) who works with WYSOCS and Reality Bites has developed a series of entertaining and challenging podcasts on worldview. Anyone interested in worldview or looking for fresh ways to engage youth(or house group, or church) with important issues should check these out.
Click here for more details.
My particular favourite (so [...]
Galatians and Worldview
Posted in Historiography, N.T. Wright, reformational, tagged essays, Galatians, Hermeneutics, N.T. Wriight, Pauline Studies, worldview on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Narrative and Ontology is also discussing worldview. I thought I would repost this old post in case its any use to anyone doing work on worldview.
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I started a paper a few months back which sought to offer a worldview reading of Galatians. Here is the first part of if. I have added the rest of it as [...]
N.T. Wright: Worldview Quotes
Posted in Historiography, N.T. Wright, reformational, tagged worldview on September 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just a collection of quotes from N.T. Wright
In order to answer the question ‘Why?’ in relation to the past, we must move from the ‘outside’ of the event to the ‘inside’; this involves reconstructing the worldviews of people other than ourselves’1
’Worldviews are the basic stuff of human existence, the lens through which the world [...]
Missional/Non Missional Neo-Calvinism: Help Needed
Posted in reformational on August 15, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I am currently writing a critical reflection of my time in Hamilton, Ontario in which I want to make mention of the influence of the Dutch Reformed community in the area. Reflecting upon my conversations and observations with many neo-calvinists/reformed types [If you are one of these folks- Thank You, Thank you] I am thinking [...]
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