Archive for August, 2009

August 12, 2009 1

Obligation and Creation

By Robert Minto in Creation, Eschatology, Obligation

This post is part of a series. Read the introduction here. Keep in mind the speculative and exploratory nature of these comments.
“… in the biblical description of creation, the vocation of God becomes definitive of the vocation of human life and of that of institutions and nations and other creatures and of all things whatever.” [...]

Tags: conscience, contexts, creation accounts, doctrine of god, figure of speech, genesis account, legal context, obedience, Obligation, sovereignty, theologians, theological reflection, william stringfellow

August 10, 2009 0

Iconography of a Glory Stain: or, Why Is There a Smashed Bug Dotting My I?

By Robert Minto in Death, Gospel, Mystery

A friend has recently accused me of being a wagon-circler. My preferred mode of discourse, it seems, is to ride my un-pin-down-able pony around the perimeter of some respectable idea and shoot arrows at it. I can appreciate this criticism. My suspicion, however, is that it’s inevitable. I see Christianity as far too dialectically vigorous [...]

Tags: anthill, elegant image, enormity, glory, glory stain, i, iconography, psyche, smashed bug, veil

August 9, 2009 0

Sunday Sundries

By Robert Minto in Blogging, Books, Periodicals, Sundries

Why “I need to spend more time with God” can be a lame diversion.
The introduction to a book which, after downloading and reading, you will need to read entire. Spoiler: the mall as the most religiously significant location in our towns.
Why we fear fundamentalism.
A remarkable collection of Christian journals from major universities.
Another of John Hobbins’s [...]

Tags: fundamentalism, john hobbins, journals, old testament, remarkable collection, Sundries, universities

August 7, 2009 2

About Reading the Bible & Theories

By Robert Minto in Obligation, Scholarship, Scripture, Theology

Theology is a kind of theorizing.
Many people don’t realize this. For some, a document like the Westminster Confession of Faith would be demeaned if it were called a collection of theories. To be theoretical is to be ephemeral, debatable, even disprovable. But confessions are theoretical—ephemeral, debatable, disprovable—even much more generally accepted confessions, such as the [...]

Tags: apostles creed, Ben Myers, Bible, Christ's body, eyes of faith, nature of theology, reading scripture, scientific theory, Scripture, theoretical nature, theories, Vollenhoven, westminster confession of faith, word of god and the word of man

August 4, 2009 0

The Subversive Pedagogy of Calvin’s Institutes: Series Introduction

By Robert Minto in Blogging, Books, Education, Politics, Rhetoric

“Tis those whose cause my former booklet pled
Whose zeal to learn has wrought this tome instead.” — John Calvin
One of the most fascinating things about Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion is the history of its slow accretion of content from a simple four part booklet to a voluminous tome. One aspect of the Institutes [...]

Tags: compass, couplet, evolutions, institutes of the christian religion, irony, john calvin, persecution, piety, posterity, protestant revolution, roman church, Theology

August 3, 2009 0

Harvard Business School and the Myth of Managerial Expertise

By Robert Minto in Books, Business, Characters, Education, Politics

A few days ago I finished the intriguing memoir of P.D. Broughton entitled Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School. Broughton attended the school in 2004-2006. He describes the roundabout path that led him to it: a distinguished career in journalism that left him, not unfulfilled, but unwealthy. To remedy this condition, [...]

Tags: After Virtue, Ahead of the Curve, astonishing truth, Books, cambridge massachusetts, harvard business school, harvard mba, harvard model, macintyre, managerial expertise, moral behavior, Philip Broughton, Virtue

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Archive for August, 2009

Obligation and Creation

Iconography of a Glory Stain: or, Why Is There a Smashed Bug Dotting My I?

Sunday Sundries

About Reading the Bible & Theories

The Subversive Pedagogy of Calvin’s Institutes: Series Introduction

Harvard Business School and the Myth of Managerial Expertise

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