Beauty, Glory and the Trinity - Barth and Bentley Hart

The latest paper of the Barth Blog Conference is available here. It is given by Keith Starkenburg, lecturer at Trinity Christian College (IL, USA) and PhD candidate at the University of Virginia. His research examines Barth's doctrine of glory and his ecclesiology. The paper is entitled,

Beauty, Glory and Trinity in Karl Barth and David Bentley Hart

Go take a look!

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Paul Nimmo on Schleiermacher

Once again it's been a while since I blogged anything, but I thought I would flag-up this clip from the increasingly successful Modern Theology Timeline created by Tim Hull at St John's College Nottingham, UK. This is a recent interview Tim did with the Edinburgh based scholar Paul Nimmo on Friedrich Schleiermacher. It is a really good interview, and will go a long way to rehabilitating FDES for those who mis-read Barth and reject him outright. Happy watching!

Theology and globalization...call for papers

A new open-access journal, Soma, is calling for papers on the subject of theology and globalization for its first edition in 2011. Go here for details. Established scholars and previously unpublished scholars are eligible to submit...so go have a look

Floor tiles, theology, and divine interruption

Today I have had quite a cultured day: we had a family trip down to the Tate Gallery at Liverpool's Albert Dock. It was a welcome relief after a long and difficult week. One of the exhibits at the gallery got me thinking - as I guess art should - and also got me chuckling. Finally it got me theologizing. The exhibit was this: It is, as you can see, a series of floor tiles laid out in a square pattern. It's called "144 Magnesium Square" by American artist Carl Andre (b.1935). If you are thinking that there must be more to it, you are wrong. That's it. Tiles laid out and cemented to the floor (not exactly very well either - my dad, who is a professional tiler, would not be pleased). And that's what got me thinking and chuckling. The inevitable question to ask when you witness something as plain and ordinary as floor tiles is "is this art?" For many people viewing the exhibit alongside me today, it plainly wasn't: they were saying so quite aud

Michael J. Leyden

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