Hicks, John Mark, Johnny Melton and Bobby Valentine. A Gathered People: Revisioning the Assembly as Transforming Encounter. Siloam Springs, AR: Leafwood, 2007. A Gathered People is the last installment of the series that John Mark Hicks refers to as his “Stone-Campbell sacramental trilogy” (12), the other two volumes being Down in the River to PrayContinue reading “Review of A Gathered People”
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John 4
John 4 may be my least favorite chapter of the book. I know, I’m not supposed to make those kinds of judgements, but I’ll have to live with the consequences. In the first place, the chapter is too long—it should have ended with the extended woman at the well ordeal. Who made up those chapterContinue reading “John 4”
Neo-Restoration is . . .
NR is . . . A call for community discourse among members of Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. Many members of Churches of Christ (CofC), particularly younger members and perhaps especially students preparing for ministry, are faced with growing uncertainty about the legitimacy of the Restoration Plea and the shape, limits, and direction of the CofC inasmuchContinue reading “Neo-Restoration is . . .”
John 3
There are pieces of the Nicodemus story that usually get a lot of press. If you’re from my tradition, what’s he saying about baptism? If you’re a “born again” Christian, the passage has some critical language for you. And the place of 3:16 goes without saying—after all, it outsells even “Footprints” in the realm ofContinue reading “John 3”
John 2
In chapter 2, John is setting us up nicely for the rest of the book. A critical eye trained on the Gospels leads us to the conclusion that John has relocated the “cleansing of the Temple” from the end of Jesus’s ministry to the beginning. If we can reconcile ourselves to the evidence (I’ll letContinue reading “John 2”
John 1
A couple of things stood out as I read John 1 this time. Having just finished Mark, with his very gradual and inductive conclusion about Jesus’ identity, John strikes me as opening with a lightening offensive on the identity of the story’s main character: the Logos incarnate, the true light, God the one and only,Continue reading “John 1”
Review of The Jesus Proposal
Rubel Shelly and John O. York, The Jesus Proposal: A Theological Framework for Maintaining the Unity of the Body of Christ (Siloam Springs, AR: Leafwood, 2006). Shelly and York have put forth a unity program based upon “relational faith.” This phrase divides nicely into the two primary facets of their proposal, one salutary and one rather dubious.Continue reading “Review of The Jesus Proposal”
Scripture & Mission 