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Matthew Y. Emerson (Ph.D., Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Dean of Theology, Arts, & Humanities at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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At the beginning of The Divine Comedy, in Canto I of Inferno, Dante opens with these famous lines:
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In one sense, Marilynne Robinson’s Jack is a simple love story, one complicated by the harsh realities of Jim Crow, but still at bottom the beautifully quaint tale of how Jack Boughton and Della Miles met and fell in love […]
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Walter Strickland's "Liberation and Black Theological Method" is an important summary of how 20th century black theologians approached the theological task.
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The manner in which we conduct ourselves as theologians is as much a part of the theologian's vocation as is the formal study of dogmatics.
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There is a way to say more than the Bible says by insisting that theology consists of only repeating phrases from the Bible.
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I’m pleased to publish this guest post from Dr. Matthew Emerson. Recently, Christiane Tietz’ Theology Today article, “Karl Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum,” was a hot topic in one small corner of the internet, occupied mostly by academic theologians. Tietz’ […]