Separatism, Pietism, and Apocalypticism

"Bonhoeffer saw the chief temptation faced by Christians as the lure to withdraw out of the world into pious enclaves, to erect private spheres of religiosity or to view religion as one activity or dimension of existence in addition to the others. The Gospel is not a call to be religious in this sense. Bonhoeffer …

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Grenz and Olson on “What is Theology?”

I will be teaching a class in seminary called "Theology and Culture" in a little over a week. I look forward to the opportunity. Most of the classes I teach are topics of classic evangelical missiology. These topics are generally so focused on the practice of missions, the theological foundation is sometimes rather murky. But …

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