David Clough on Barth's Theological Development

This is part two of an interview I did with Professor David Clough on Karl Barth. Here David tackles Barth's theological development and the issues in Barth's theology after the famous Anselm book, "Fides Quaerens Intellectum". Part one can also be viewed here.

Watch this space for another interview, this time with Professor Tom Greggs (soon to be of Aberdeen University) on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This interview is part of the same project as the Barth clips, and in available via St John's College Nottingham.

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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 Established scholars and previously unpublished scholars are eligible to submit...so go have a look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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