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A theology of government

By Kenneth Nehrbass

Jul. 9, 2018

  By Ken NehrbassThis is a series of blogs on the theology of culture, which really can be seen as a "theology of everything" if culture is everything we think, have and do as members of a society.  In this post, I introduce ideas that are central to a theology of ...

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Is there a such thing as cultural identity? And why is cultural identity important?

By Kenneth Nehrbass

Jul. 4, 2018

By Kenneth NehrbassAll over the world, people seem to reify their behaviors as cultural facts. For example, Aussies may avow their cultural identity in terms of informality ("We don't even call our physician 'doctor') and collectivism ("When a poppy stands out from the others, we clip it'). Or many ...

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What is cultural identity, and how is it different from cultural studies?

By Kenneth Nehrbass

Jul. 4, 2018

 By Kenneth NehrbassAll over the world, people seem to reify their behaviors as cultural facts. For example, I have heard Aussies avow their cultural identity in terms of informality ("We are so informal that we don't even call our physician 'doctor') and collectivism ("Don't be too puffed up ...

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Progress in Theology

By Fred Sanders

Jun. 21, 2018

There’s an important sense in which theology doesn’t ever change at all. There’s a logos of theos, a knowledge of God, that is truly immutable. To speak of this unchanging character of the knowledge of God, though, we have to raise our eyes higher than

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Good without Quality, Great without Quantity

By Fred Sanders

Jun. 20, 2018

In the fifth book of Augustine’s On the Trinity (Prologue), having declared for the umpteenth time his inadequacy in writing about such subjects, he lays down some rules for how we should think about God: Thus we should understand God, if we can and as

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A theology of education

By Kenneth Nehrbass

Jun. 14, 2018

by Ken NehrbassThis is a series of blogs on the theology of culture, which really can be seen as a "theology of everything" if culture is everything we think, have and do as members of a society.  n this post, I introduce ideas that are central to a theology of ...

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