Category Archives: Church

Webber: The Divine Embrace 9: What now?

Posted on March 20, 2008 by me

The final chapter in Webber’s The Divine Embrace is entitled Life Together, which is, of course, where all this ends, in church. One of my repeated critiques of a contemporary church experience is that it is essentially existential, focusing on the … Continue reading →

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Orthodoxy – Eastern and otherwise

Posted on March 13, 2008 by me

It seems that I’ve lived a very sheltered life, at least as far as life in the evangelical world goes. I thought that I had a pretty eclectic theological history, and understood evangelicals pretty well. I was raised Lutheran, as … Continue reading →

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Webber: The Divine Embrace 8: Everything must change

Posted on March 9, 2008 by me

Some of you might recognize Everything must change as the title to a rather poor book by Brian McLaren which I reviewed some time back. While McLaren – in my opinion – failed miserably in laying out a case for why … Continue reading →

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Webber: The Divine Embrace 7: What now?

Posted on February 29, 2008 by me

Part three of The Divine Embrace is entitled “The Challenge: Returning Spirituality to the Divine Embrace,” which is an excellent encapsulation of Webber’s point: we don’t need to find anything new, we simply need to recapture the church’s original understanding … Continue reading →

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