As I sit down in the computer room (and not the editing bay, mind you) of the Los Angeles Film Studies Centered where my wife, Piper, is trying to jump into the network of the “Film Industry,” I feel prodigal. I haven’t introduced myself to this wonderful blogging group’s readers, though my name has [...]
Tags: History, knowledge, Narrative, religious education, spanish education
You knew it had to happen. The moment I decided to make TVA a group blog, my endemic capitalist disease of diversification was coming down the pike.
I love the way TVA is working out — the balance between things like Kenny’s post about the politics of the RC-Anglican thing, Joel’s musing about apocalyptic movies, and [...]
Tags: Anglican, Desire, diversification, longtime reader, new blog, news, Prospects, Robert Minto, stream of consciousness, The Anti-moderate, tva
Entering “The Veil Away” as an author is an honor. Even before Robert and I became good friends I would be drawn to this blog time and time again. It has always offered an excellent example of theological, philosophical, and theoritical discourse. I earnestly hope to avoid spoiling the foundation already established.
A recent convert to [...]
Tags: adangerousconversation, blog, calvinism, Christian Reformed, Daniel Den Boer
My name is Matt Gerrelts, and as of today, I am about 13 days short of 21 years old and 143 days away from marrying my beautiful fiancee! I am a junior at Dordt college, and, after I graduate with my bachelor degree in philosophy, I hope to earn my masters and doctorate in theology. [...]
Greetings, readers!
I am a senior at Dordt College in northwest Iowa, and God willing, I will graduate in May with a degree in political studies and communications. I grew up in the Christian Reformed Church, and from a young age took on the role of official apologist for Calvinism at my non-denominational Christian K-12 school. [...]
The Veil Away is about to become a group blog. While maintaining its focus upon theology, philosophy, and cultural studies it will be expanded in several unique directions due to the expertise of its new co-contributors. Subjects like hermeneutics, science fiction, and linguistics, among others, will become more prominent. I will of course continue posting [...]
Tags: group blog, hermeneutics, jacob kroeze, joel veldkamp, kenny gradert, kroeze, linguistics, matt gerrelts, new energy, science fiction, Theology, tom swiftbird
In the next few days, you may expect several interesting new posts: (1. a proposal regarding theological criticism of films; (2. a post about aspects of the genetic fallacy; (3. a fairly extensive review of Bruegemann’s Old Testament Theology.
I will also be announcing an important and exciting change for The Veil Away — not the [...]
Tags: bernard mcginn, communist manifesto karl marx, david kelsey, dialectic of enlightenment, exodus and revolution, foundations of the christian faith, jacques ellul, john goldingay, karl marx communist manifesto, karl rahner, marva dawn, minima moralia, old testament theology, philip goodchild, sarah coakley, sigmund freud civilization and its discontents, theodore adorno, western mysticism
As the necessary — and all too-often neglected — prequel to my New Year’s thoughts, I have compiled my favorite personal accomplishments of the year 2009.
I successfully proposed to Rachel, thereby demonstrating that there is hope for us all.
I read over 300 books.
I broadened my mind in countless ways, some of the most important of [...]
Tags: academic conference, Accomplishments, calvinism, christian mysticism, College, contemporary philosophy, genesis, habit, history of ideas, liberation, marxism, mythology, personal accomplishments, pilgrimage, protestant theology, resolutions, top graduate schools, web venture
Well, my intention to resurrect my programmatic reading of Scripture has foundered on the rocks of reconsideration. The problem is that in my intuition, first, of the value of pursuing the theme of obligation, and then, in my second formulation, of pursuing the theme of self-sacrifice, I have merely been clumsily approaching the issue of [...]
Tags: Bible-reading, Jurgen Moltmann, old testament theology, relationality, retraction, Scripture, self sacrifice, subversion, Walter Bruegemann, Walther Eichrodt
One of the tasks of every theologian must be to determine the answer to this question. He or she knows the tradition in which they long to work—but the temptation will always be to regurgitate what previous theologians have written. The value of such regurgitations is purely rhetorical or commemorative, a maintaining of inherited knowledge. [...]
Tags: 20th century, contemporary society, economic groups, liberation, literary criticism, literary critics, oppressed groups, racial groups, sources of theology, textbook writers, theologian, theologians, theological truth
