started 1/26/17 Kindle Version (More) Musings and Methodologies Book has changed a lot since original publication, but the core argument remains. Atonement theories tend to outlive their usefulness. “The Structure of What Follows” – Outline of rest of book Part 1: The Stories We Tell About Sin and Shame “Sin doesn’t really exist as a […]
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Book Notes – The Unbearable Wholeness of Being
Posted: June 20, 2014 by Todd in Books, TheologyTags: consciousness, cosmology, evolution, Ilio Delio, Integral, Integral Spirituality, integral theory, love, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Teilhard, wholeness
The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love Ilia Delio This is the best book I’ve read this year. A beautiful theology based on understanding evolution as the human story. Here are my notes: Introduction “In my view, evolution is the story.” The area where evolution has the least influence is theology due […]
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why
Posted: January 29, 2014 by Todd in Books, Culture, TheologyTags: change, church history, cultural change, emergence, emergents, emerging church, hyphenateds, Phyllis Tickle, progressives, re-traditioning, rummage sale, The Great Emergence, tradition, traditionalists
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why Phyllis Tickle – 2012 (Reprint Edition), Baker Finished re-reading August, 2013. Best parts to re-read are chapters 1 and 5. Brief Summary: Roughly every 500 years, the church seems to have a “giant rummage sale,” shedding off old ways of being, doctrine, and practice, adopting new […]
Book Notes – The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity
Posted: January 29, 2014 by Todd in Books, TheologyTags: consciousness, Cynthia Bourgeault, G. I. Gurdjieff, Georges Gurdjieff, GI Gurdjieff, Gurdjieff, Holy Trinity, Jacobe Boehme, Law of Seven, Law of Three, The Work, Trinity
The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity Cynthia Bourgeault – 2013, Shambhala Publications Finished July, 2013. This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read. It’s a tough, but rewarding read. Try your best to read it as a mystic for the best results. Summary/Notes: Introduction Compares […]
Book Notes – Naked Spirituality: A Life With God in 12 Simple Words
Posted: January 29, 2014 by Todd in Books, Ministry, TheologyTags: brian mclaren, growth, human development, life phases, Naked Spirituality, seasons, spiritual growth, spirituality
Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words Brian D. McLaren Finished April, 2012. Helpful Chart Summary: Simplicity Right vs. Wrong Dualism Dependence Complexity Effective vs. Ineffective Pragmatism Independence Perplexity Honest vs. Dishonest Relativism Counterdependence Harmony Understanding of Purpose and Timing Interdependence of Mutuality Syntopical Learning: [Resonating with Thinking, Fast and Slow] O seems […]
Releasing the Need for a Perfect Jesus
Posted: January 27, 2014 by Todd in TheologyTags: grace, jesus, perfection, wholeness
Traditional Christianity often teaches that Jesus was perfect and without sin. The proclamation that Jesus is perfect and without sin isn’t something Jesus claimed of himself – in fact he denied it (Mark 10:18). Rather, it is a doctrinal formulation of the church. While, well-intentioned, and certainly a laudable statement of devotion and worship of […]
Jesus as Product Placement
Posted: June 17, 2013 by Todd in Culture, TheologyTags: Christ and Culture, Man of Steel, Product Placement, Superman
Integral Wesley
Posted: June 7, 2013 by admin in Ministry, TheologyTags: Claire Graves, faith development, human development, Integral, Integral Spirituality, James Fowler, John Wesley, Sermons of John Wesley, Spiral Dynamics, stages of faith, The Almost Christian, Wesley
I’ve been reading quite a bit lately in the area of Integral Spirituality, Spiral Dynamics, and human/faith development in general. While admitedly anachronistic, I think Wesley had an innate sense about how faith develops and I can see in his sermon, The Almost Christian, a proto-version of the stages advocated by Ken Wilber (integral), Claire […]
Saved from Sacrifice – Book Review
Posted: December 12, 2011 by Todd in Books, TheologyTags: atonement, book reviews, books, girard, mark heim, rene girard, reviews, saved from sacrifice, substitutionary atonement theory
I just finished reading a book that I think has made a big impression on me, Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross by Mark Heim. I had read about the “Girardian” perspective on Jesus’s crucifixion various places, mostly, I think on Brian McLaren’s blog and was intrigued and wanted to learn more. Mark […]