. . . a fundamental task of leaders within Christian communities is, first and foremost, to be as authentically human as the Spirit will allow, guided by an encounter with the crucified and risen Lord
Keith StarkenburgOctober 25, 2023
All the characters were caught within or between the two sides of the house, often despite their best intentions. That’s where Jennings wants his readers to be, yet longing with him for something else.
Keith StarkenburgJune 30, 2021
The essays in this issue of Perspectives tackle a topic that might seem strange to readers habituated in the Reformed tradition. The word “deification,” if it rings a bell at all, is commonly associated with Eastern Orthodoxy or with Mormonism. Todd Billings, in his essay in this issue, notes that when students are first exposed to one of the ways that early Christian theologians thought about salvation – salvation as deification – they are taken aback. I often experience this…
Keith StarkenburgJuly 1, 2015
It is an old question, and it happens every fall. Every fall, I teach a required course on biblical theology as seen through the Old Testament and the Gospels. Every fall, we get stuck on the story of Rahab in the book of Joshua, and we get particularly stuck on the question of whether Rahab was justified in lying to Jericho about the whereabouts of Israel’s spies. Every fall, almost all of my students — whether they are products of…
Keith StarkenburgOctober 30, 2014
The question of this guest-edited issue of Perspectives can be asked in two ways. First, we are asking a broad question: How does Christian theology illuminate the weight and depth of our day-to-day lives, such that our lives can be experienced and shaped in accord with that weight and depth? As David Bentley Hart has recently claimed in “The Experience of God” (Yale, 2013), “We have, in fact, no direct access to nature as such; we can approach nature only…
Trygve Johnson and Keith StarkenburgOctober 30, 2014
The question of this guest-edited issue of Perspectives can be asked in two ways. First, we are asking a broad question: How does Christian theology illuminate the weight and depth of our day-to-day lives, such that our lives can be experienced and shaped in accord with that weight and depth? As David Bentley Hart has recently claimed in "The Experience of God" (Yale, 2013), "We have, in fact, no direct access to nature as such; we can approach nature only…
Keith StarkenburgSeptember 5, 2014
It is an old question, and it happens every fall. Every fall, I teach a required course on biblical theology as seen through the Old Testament and the Gospels. Every fall, we get stuck on the story of Rahab in the book of Joshua, and we get particularly stuck on the question of whether Rahab was justified in lying to Jericho about the whereabouts of Israel's spies. Every fall, almost all of my students — whether they are products of…
Keith StarkenburgSeptember 5, 2014