Articles & Essays

It is fitting to believe that the Triune God resurrects the whole of creation along with Jesus Christ and the church?

The burden of this article is to consider how theologians identifiable as white Christians can articulate theologies of place in dialogue with indigenous cultures and theologies. The need for care and caution in this dialogue was recently made clear to me by an indigenous leader.…

Matthew Boulton’s recent work justly celebrates Barth as liturgical theologian, a characterization shared with a few of Barth’s leading interpreters. Using Barth’s theology as a key source, Boulton’s constructive claim is that “the catastrophe of sin is liturgy’s original and continual work; the miracle of…

When neighborhoods gentrify, residents can be physically displaced as well as psychologically displaced. This psychological displacement can occur even if the resident is not physically displaced. In this article, Keith E. Starkenburg and Mackenzi Huyser explore the significant impact that neighborhood changes have on one’s attachment to place as…

Abstract Theological treatments of land, place, and the built environment are increasingly common. Most Christian theologies of place take their cues from the presence of the Triune God. However, a theology of place must also reckon with issues of diversity, pluralization, and tolerance, and thus…

According to John Betz, Barth’s difficulty with the analogia entis comes from “an aesthetic prejudice for the sublime against the beautiful” (John R. Betz, “Beyond the Sublime,” Modern Theology (2005), 370). David Bentley Hart, who is a close collaborator of Betz, makes similar claims in The Beauty of the…

Since the publication of Richard Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Alvin Plantinga has often engaged some of Rorty’s claims about truth and justification as the offerings of a philosophical gadfly. In particular, Plantinga has summarized Rorty as saying that “truth is what our…