Showing posts with label social gospel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social gospel. Show all posts
Monday, April 27, 2015

A Reader Writes: If Karl Barth Was Addressing Fundamentalism in Europe, How Is It Possible to Say that Notions of Biblical Inerrancy Are Grounded in Defense of Slavery?

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In response to my posting last week about Fred Clark's response to Emma Green on the connection between the Southern evangelica...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ira Chernus on Obama's Semi-Niebuhrianism: Shadows and Suffering, Heading Nowhere

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Ira Chernus's critique of the "semi-Niebuhrianism of Mr. Obama (and of almost all media pundits who sling Niebuhr's name aro...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

David Brooks on the Atrophy of Theology Today: A Matter of Perspective

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I'm not surprised to see a number of leading figures of the American Catholic intellectual center celebrating David Brooks' recent ...
Friday, January 14, 2011

David Brooks on Niebuhrian Need for Renewed Sense of Sin: Where Does Incivility Arise in American Society?

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Moderate conservatives like David Brooks are eager to bring civility back to American society--to retie the now-frayed ties that bind us....
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

More Beck vs. King: Andrew Murphy on the Difference

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More fine analysis of the absurdity of Mr. Beck's claim to be a new Martin Luther King.  This piece by Andrew Murphy is at Religion D...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Jeremiah Wright's Little Rock Sermon: What He Said, What I Heard

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When I blogged about Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermon at New Millennium Baptist church in Little Rock yesterday, I mentioned that I might add a...

Jim Martin on Glenn Beck's Bête Noire: Christianity in All Its Disturbing Fullness

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Following his Saturday revival meeting for America, Mr. Beck continues his full-throated attack on the social justice teachings of Christi...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Remembering the Real Martin Luther King: True Revolution of Values Demands Justice for the Poor

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Tom Roberts' commentary at National Catholic Reporter about Mr. Beck's national revival meeting yesterday is well worth the read...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Candace Chellew-Hodge on Judge Walker's Prop 8 Decision: Prop 8 Defenders on Wrong Side of History

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Also at Religion Dispatches this morning, outstanding commentary about Judge Vaughn Walker’s prop 8 decision by Candace Chellew-Hodge.  S...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Paul Raushenbush to the President: Mr. Obama, Find Your Inner Niebuhr

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  A month ago, I blogged about Niebuhrian influences on President Obama’s political philosophy.  I noted that it has long been fashionable...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Shifting Moral Minds in a Society as Unfinished Task: New Year's Reflections on Women'

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Talking about the changing moral mind of social groups and the shifting moral consensus of a society may cause some who hear this theologica...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Societies' Changing Moral Minds, Changing Societies' Moral Minds: Reflections on the Eve of a New Year

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I ended yesterday’s posting with a comment about the changing moral mind of our society—about our culture’s developing moral consensus that ...