Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
I’ve been listening to lectures by Tom Wright the last couple of weeks, downloaded from the NT Wright Page. So far it’s been “Jesus and the Kingdom” and “Jesus and the cross”. Tom introduces us to the context in which Jesus proclaimed his message, lived, died and rose again.
He’s seen with a bit of suspicion by more conservative Evangelicals. Maybe it’s because he introduces more data to give us fresh perspectives for understanding Jesus and Paul. So far I’m enjoying Tom’s honest grappling with the New Testament text.
From Wikipedia:
Tom (N.T.) Wright is the Bishop of Durham of the Anglican Church and a leading British New Testament scholar. Ordinarily he is known as “Tom Wright”, although his academic work has always been published under the name “NT Wright” (Nicholas Thomas). He is generally perceived as coming from a moderately evangelical perspective. He is associated with the so-called Third Quest for the Historical Jesus, and the New Perspective on Paul (along with James Dunn and E. P. Sanders). He argues that our present day understanding of Jesus must be connected with what is known to be true about him from the historical perspective of first century Judaism and Christianity.
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Monday, August 22nd, 2005
I’ve finally got round to podcasting. At the moment I’m hosting the mp3 files on my work web site. I’m listing the podcasts at PostKiwi Podcasts: Duncan Macleod On Line Out Loud.
At this point I’m putting up existing audio files like my sermons at Logan Uniting each week. First one is on generosity. This week I took out a few pauses and ums. Don’t know if I’ll bother each time. Though it does cut down on the length. I’ve exported from Audacity to mp3 at 16 bit rate. Keeps the file size below 5 MB.
RSS Feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/PostkiwiPodcasts. If you’re using the latest version of iTunes you can subscribe using that feed.
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Monday, August 1st, 2005
Stephen Said and Al Hirsch have put out an 11 minute podcast at Neurotribe this last week. Good listening. Especially in relation to their comments on Australian theology.
Stephen: So where would you say is the place for theologising in the Australian context? Where is that done? Who would you say are the major contributors to the conversation?
Alan: Well that’s a good question, because I don’t think, in terms of any published author, that anyone’s doing it in any significant way in this country. Do you know of any doing a theologising like McLaren?
Stephen: Not in such a public forum. I’m not sure if that’s just the nature of the Australian context or what. I can rattle a few names of people that you and I know but they’re not systematising it and putting it out in the public domain.
Alan: I think that highlights the distinction. It’s very very hard to find someone who’s doing the specific theologising particularly in the missional context. What we are finding is that people are doing a lot about missionary thinking. If you had to zone it down it goes down to missional ecclesiology. How the church shapes itself in light of the mission.
So… is it true? Who in Australia is rethinking our theology of mission and church and getting it down for others to read? I can think of Dean Drayton with his fresh look at the New Testament, “Which Gospel? Three New Testament Perspectives”, published by Mediacom. And there’s Mark Strom, “Reframing Paul: Conversations in Grace & Community” back in 2000, published by IVP.
Is our theologising happening mostly on blogs and other web sites?
Anybody out there?
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