Comments for Shored Fragments http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins' (TS Eliot, The Waste Land) Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on About by apassionforthepossible http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3046 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:16:49 +0000 #comment-3046 Dear Steve,
Greetings from Donetsk Christian University. Thanks for your excellent blog. I appreciate the deep and thoughtful (yet accessible) reflections contained on this blog (particularly the posts on liberal theology and women in ministry) and I intend to stay tuned.
Best wishes and blessings from a Baptist brother working in Eastern Ukraine,
JTS

]]> Comment on My preaching and speaking by Richard Woodhouse http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/my-preaching-and-speaking/#comment-3036 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:38:58 +0000 http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/?page_id=1004#comment-3036 I am reading your new book, “Quest for the Trinity”, and I am finding it a very good historical and also contemporary relflection on the origins of the Doctrine and where some of the current theories have gone wrong. I think that the work of scholars like Larry Hurtado and Richard Bauckham have been of great help and go a long way in helping us understand Early Christianity. The points made by you in numerouse parts of the book about the importance of Worship of Jesus, is an astounding fact of Early Christian belief. This is something that I can remember C. F. D Moule and Richard France pointing out back in the 70′s and 80′s. Also the German scholar Martin Hengel as well. It puts the history of religions theories of Christian origins on the defensive. Though you would never know this from popularized versions of it paraded at every Christian Holiday on Secular TV documentaries. A really good book. You are to be thanked for producing such a good work. Thank you. Rick from the USA

]]> Comment on How new is the ‘new perspective’? by Taming the Shrewd? On Polemical Rights and Rhetorical Wrongs | The Calvinist International http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/how-new-is-the-new-perspective/#comment-3031 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:02:36 +0000 http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/?p=449#comment-3031 [...] which had eluded everyone until very recently. His misapprehension of traditional doctrine has been pointed out by Stephen Holmes, and Mark Seifrid has also shown how Bp. Wright’s haste to arrive at his innovation leads to bad [...]

]]> Comment on About by Jen Hoos http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3009 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:54:27 +0000 #comment-3009 Steve…I’m currently reading your “Listening to the Past” book and I’m wonding if you can point me in the direction of the best comprehensive book on the doctrine of the Trinity from a historical theological perspective. Thanks in advance. Email addy is Jen4short@gmail.com.

]]> Comment on Church Growth in Britain 5: analysis by Rite and Ritual – Christian Edition | Eudaimonaic Laughter http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/church-growth-in-britain-5-analysis/#comment-2997 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:47:18 +0000 http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/?p=1222#comment-2997 [...] Christianity is currently haemorrhaging people, Conservative Christianity is attracting some but driving many more away.  And Atheism doesn’t answer the non-theological questions religion [...]

]]> Comment on Queer Hippo: musings on human sexuality by framed, pt. 1 | gaysubtlety http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/queer-hippo-musings-on-human-sexuality/#comment-2944 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:18:29 +0000 http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/?p=593#comment-2944 [...] found this article (consequently by a side-A brother) to be a helpful reminder of how the conversation must be framed: [...]

]]> Comment on Of a troublesome comma in the Creed by Sean McGever http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/of-a-troublesome-comma-in-the-creed/#comment-2923 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:13:01 +0000 http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/?p=1294#comment-2923 Steve, good word. Yes, as you know this is the opening idea of Prof Wright’s How God Became King, Ch. 1 “The Missing Middle”. Kingdom Theology does like to emphasize this point. Obviously he is well aware of the context of the creed, and even more aware of the opposite problem, the Jesus “of” the comma, focusing only on the life of Jesus.

You make a great point about creeds being removed from their functional usage in the midst of devotion, gathering and liturgy. I wonder how ST takes this into account, or if there is even a way to do that. I have a few ideas about some might have done that in the past but they are too premature to attempt to spell out at the moment.

Thanks again! I’m giving that app a download for a peek.

]]> Comment on Defining liberal Christianity by Defining Liberal Christianity » epiklesis http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/defining-liberal-christianity/#comment-2908 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:36:01 +0000 http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/?p=1191#comment-2908 [...] Steve Holmes | Defining Liberal Christianity [...]

]]> Comment on ‘Egalitarianism’ as a slippery slope? by Theology Round-Up –September 2012 | Cheesewearing Theology http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/egalitarianism-as-a-slippery-slope/#comment-2907 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:02:33 +0000 http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/?p=1253#comment-2907 [...] response to Rachel Held Evan’s post on being an Accidental Feminist. Steven Holmes looks at the “slippery slope” charge that is leveled against egalitarianism. Amy Hughes offers some of her own thoughts on the [...]

]]> Comment on Another myth about gender and church leadership by ruth http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/another-myth-about-gender-and-church-leadership/#comment-2903 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:19:55 +0000 http://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/?p=1281#comment-2903 especially the anarcho- bit!!

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