Senior Editor, @Kansas_Press @dwceditor | instructor @udseminary | #aapi | New book: “Who Is a True Christian?” (CUP)
Sep 23, 2018 • 53 tweets • 11 min read
1. THREAD. I've been an editor in political science at the University Press of Kansas (@Kansas_Press) for over a year now, and ever since I started I've been struck by something: the highly conservative character of the political science field.
2. As someone who spent the last 5 years editing books for an evangelical Christian academic publisher, I can say that working with university press-caliber authors in political science has felt like a lateral move in terms of political culture. It's truly *that* conservative.
Sep 14, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
1. Time for a rant thread. There are few things I loathe more than the claim that an interpretation of some beloved classical thinker or text is "biased" or "eisegesis." There's a lot going on in such claims that needs unpacking.
2. First of all, these claims assume the illusion of an unbiased interpretation, as if there is the "real" text or person lying "out there" for everyone to objectively see and admire. This doesn't exist and never has. As Barth says, "there is no exegesis without eisegesis."
Sep 12, 2018 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD. I'm often asked what the point of God-talk is given my thoroughgoing demythologizing approach to theology. Is theology reducible to politics? Is there any meaning to talk of divine action? These are perennial questions, but I have a few thoughts. 1/
This isn't going to be a thread on dialectical or existential theology. I'll simply say that God is an active subject in the sense that I define God as an event, a disruptive occurrence in the midst of life that mobilizes new forms of human existence and social action. 2/
Mar 1, 2018 • 102 tweets • 20 min read
I believe it's time for me to start my reflections on NT Wright's Gifford Lectures. I'll comment on each lecture after finishing it to simulate live-tweeting. Buckle up, folks. Here we go. #NTWGifford
The opening lecture is titled "The Fallen Shrine: Lisbon 1755 and the Triumph of Epicureanism" and looks at the modern age and how this relates to the study of natural theology & the historical Jesus. It is almost exactly what I expected.
Oct 31, 2017 • 37 tweets • 5 min read
1. Today is not just any Reformation Day, but #Reformation500 Day. That calls for another installment of #TwitterSeminary.
2. My reflections are prompted by the question: Just what was the Reformation really about? What was its essential aim?
