Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality - - Part III

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DSSHS and Antinomianism Classically, ‘antinomianism’ applies to any theological position that downgrades the authority or integrity of the...
Monday, July 28, 2008

The Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality: Part II

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DSSHS and the Divine “As If” As others have pointed out, the term ‘Trinity’ occurs but once in the document, and there the three distincti...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

The ELCA Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality: Part I

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Over the next few days I shall publish here my response to the ELCA Sexuality Statement. Below is Part I: Since the time of David Hume (171...
Friday, July 04, 2008

Why is the "Literal Sense" so Problematic? - An Excursus on the Sexuality Issue

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Believers in the pews are often bewildered how it can be that theologians and church leaders often proclaim positions at glaring odds with w...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Thinking Hegelian Thoughts

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It can happen to you anywhere, and sometimes with the least provocation. You can be having a good day, a clear day, a day when you know wh...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Why Worry about Not Being Able to Do Other than What One Did Do?

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So many Lutherans care so desperately about freedom that one would think it is part of our tradition. Of course, in some sense it clearly i...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

The "Sexuality Issue"

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Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are confused these days about sexuality. They want to figure out if engaging in...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The Power of Words

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lI am always am disquieted when I hear theologians talk confidently about the "power" of the Biblical word and then go on to claim...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Nomological Confusions

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Lutheran theology classically distinguishes the first and second use of the law. The first use is civil. Here the law works to keep human be...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

The Authority of Scripture

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Many people are concerned about the problem of the authority of scripture. But how can the Bible have such authority when seeming textual au...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

On Semantics in Theology

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I am convinced that the mainline denominations are dying because they have violated semantic probity. While there seems to be some prima fac...
Monday, April 09, 2007

On Contra-Causal Freedom to Accept of Reject Grace

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I received a very thought-provoking response which asked me to rethink my "Fundamental Seven" ( http://www.wordalone.org/docs/wa-f...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007

Theological Doctrine as Grammar: The Meaning as Use Ruse

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Wouldn’t it be great to be able to assert the great doctrines of the Church without having actually to violate one’s ontological scruples ab...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007

Theological Semantics and the Problem of Interpretation

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The sentence 'the cat is on the mat' is meaningless until it has been given an interpretation. We define a function from the sentenc...
Thursday, April 05, 2007

On the Theological Equivalency of East/West Trinitarin Models

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Theologians are oftentimes too lax in getting clear on the types of claims they make. Take, for instance, the claim that the East and West m...
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Sunday, April 01, 2007

Trinitarian Confusions between East and West?

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Richard Cross has argued that the East and West do not really "adopt radically divergent accounts of the Trinity" (Richard Cross, ...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Confusing the Epistemic and Semantic Primacy of Christ

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As some may know, I am the author of the so-called “WordAlone Fundamentals,” a set of affirmations that I think get at the heart of some bas...
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