a wise old professor…

22Jan09

A wise old professor of theology was known to enjoy philosophical sparring with the younger, more zealous students. As he was lecturing one day on postmodern theory, he said, hoping to rouse one student in particular,
“And so we dare not expect that plurality of persons—not even two persons—can come to a purely uniform agreement [...]

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Was Barton Stone emerging?

23Jul08

We pause here with the “emerging then, emering now” series to respond to a friend’s comment on Barton Stone and his intersection with Emergent/emerging church sensibilities.
Here is the section of Jomato’s comment that I interact with:
now if i may offer an observation on your post: it appears that barton w. stone would stand out in [...]

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Tags: barton stone, emergent, epistemology, missional, post-restorationist, postmodernity, stone-campbell movement

reality checkered

25Mar08

One afternoon in a city park, an old man walked up to two young men at a checker board.  He began watching the progression of their slow, calculated game.  He chuckled to himself, These boys don’t know what they’re doing.  The bystander had played on the checkerboard literally thousands of times—he was well-schooled in the [...]

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Tags: parable, paradigm, postmodernity, Wittgenstein