Bill Tammeus reviews Reclaiming Paul
Bill Tammeus, the religion columnist for the Kansas City Star, attended the first session at the Reclaiming Paul Conference. See his blog for a few comments on Mike Gorman’s presentation.
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Grace and Giving
Just a few more days until the Reclaiming Paul conference. I share the sense of excitement and expectation that Tim Keel expressed in his post last month:
I am excited and hopeful that by talking about Paul and what he believed and what he said we might be infected by the same Spirit that animated and [...]
Justification & Pacifism
I grew up with a doctrine of salvation (nobody used the technical terminology of justification by grace through faith) that was basically “believe in Jesus and your sins are forgiven”—a juridical transaction with God that didn’t demand much of me politically. It saved my soul while leaving my body free to be ordered by the [...]
de-privatization
There has been a lot of discussion on this blog about the question, “What are we reclaiming Paul from?” It seems to me that there are several important answers to that query, but for now I want to focus on just one (though I think it has wide-ranging implications)—reclaiming Paul from the private sphere.
In much [...]
Paul, the man
I am really excited for the Reclaiming Paul conference next month.
I am excited to interact with theologians who have made it their life’s work to interact with Paul’s writings and share with others the riches they have found there.
I love theology and think we need to have some important conversations about how we have understood [...]
Who Gets Paul?
A couple years ago, I was in a discussion about Dietrich Bonhoeffer when someone made the interesting comment, “Bonhoeffer bends a lot of different ways.” When I asked her to elucidate, she said, “Everyone reads Bonhoeffer, everyone claims him, and everyone quotes him approvingly: mainliners, evangelicals, Catholics.”
That got me to thinking about how rare it [...]
The Dreaded End?
If you are like some people in my community of faith, hearing the words “Paul” and “judgment” in the same sentence might not be your favorite topic of conversation. It seems before poor Paul can get a word in, visions of doom-and-gloom sandwich boards or angry people standing on street corners with megaphones may come [...]
What Are We Reclaiming Paul From?
This upcoming conference titled “Reclaiming Paul” begs a very simple question—what are we reclaiming Paul from? The title hints at the reality that as Protestants and Evangelicals we enter into Paul’s text with certain prejudices. When my church community recently followed the lectionary through Romans, I noticed how difficult it can be to free Paul [...]
Paul: Friend of Christ
I must admit that I am not sure where all of the fault lines in this conversation about Paul and the emergent church lie. Based on the earlier postings it would seem that Justification clearly seems to be one of them. As a way of clarifying some other ones, I offer the following reflection to [...]
Was Paul a Misogynist?
When I spoke to the Philadelphia Emerging Cohort about Paul, one of the biggest gripes was Paul’s view of women. Texts bearing Paul’s name, especially 1 Timothy 2:8-14 and 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, have a long history of undergirding a patriarchal view of church leadership.
But there is a countervailing strain in Paul’s letters as well, one [...]