Why are we hard, even difficult, with the people with whom we largely agree? When we discuss our theology, we are often not simply giving our opinions, but our convictions. And it is sometimes hard to delineate between ourselves and what we believe.
The body is never neutral in worship, “never merely a body,” but always interacting with other bodies, with traditions and assumptions, with cultural locations, with expectations and limitations, and with the Creator of bodies.
What does the poet John Keats have to teach the pastors of the church? John Bauerschmidt expands on a suggestion of Eugene Peterson, and suggests how we need to maximize our “negative capability.”
By Joey Royal
Augustine of Hippo, teacher of rhetoric, admirer of Cicero, initially found the Bible crude and unsophisticated. He found both the form and...
