Sublime

Stoicism is a school of philosophy founded in classical Greece that flowered in the Roman Empire and has been reinvigorated by modern interpreters.

The purpose of the cultural analysis above is to show that when the good life is sped up to living multiple lifetimes (intragenerational), the decay rate is short and the present is compressed—which puts the denomination in crisis.

Peace, Walter Brueggemann

To read Augustine in the twenty-first century is to gain a vantage point that makes all of our freedom look like addiction.

Augustine is our contemporary. He has directly and indirectly shaped the way we understand our pursuits, the call to authenticity.

Schleiermacher,

The fact that this movement, which in the first years of this century seemed so vital, has all but disappeared, points to the frenetic search for solutions to the crisis of these churches. Emergent church was a broad coalition of younger leaders seeking to frame a “new kind of Christianity” with new forms and practices of church life that claimed t

Merold Westphal,

James K. A. Smith is fast becoming a major voice in the world of postmodern theology. One of his major strengths is his ability to show that theology matters inside and outside the world of scholarship.