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Book Review: A Change of Heart, by Thomas Oden

January 14, 2016 by Mark Hansard No Comments

Oden writes a riveting tale about his own turn from theological liberalism to classic Christianity.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: autobiography, Book Review, Center for Early African Christianity, conversion, intervarsity press, paleo-orthodoxy, patristic scholarship, theology, Thomas C. Oden, Thomas Oden

Who Am I? Bonhoeffer as a Historical Mentor in Prayer: Part 2

November 3, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

Preface In the process of completing the Christian Devotional Classics series, I was inspired to dig into material which I wrote on the prayer life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Theology and Practice of Prayer[footnote]SF/ST 777: Theology and Practice of Prayer. Laurie Mellinger, Ph.D. Evangelical Seminary. Summer 2012. Course Description: This course explores various aspects of the interplay between theology and prayer. […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Prayer Tagged With: Christocentrism, Confessing Church, conversion, dietrich bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge, Finkenwalde Seminary, gratitude, Karl Barth, Karl Bonhoeffer, Letters and papers from prison, Luther, Nazi, rule of life, The Cost of Discipleship, Theology and Practice of Prayer, Who Am I? Dietrich Bonhoeffer as Historical Mentor in Prayer

Who Am I? Bonhoeffer as a Historical Mentor in Prayer: Part 1

October 27, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 2 Comments

Preface In the process of completing the Christian Devotional Classics series, I was inspired to dig into material which I wrote on the prayer life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Theology and Practice of Prayer[1]. My intention had been to do such last fall, but I found my time too pressed with transitioning into my new role as Associate Director of […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Prayer Tagged With: conversion, dietrich bonhoeffer, Nazi, Psalms, religionless Christianity, rule of life, Theology and Practice of Prayer, Who Am I? Dietrich Bonhoeffer as Historical Mentor in Prayer

Review: The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert

June 25, 2013 by Kate Peterson 7 Comments

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Pittsburgh: Crown & Covenant Publications, 2012). 154 pp. Rosaria Butterfield is the kind of woman she herself once bitterly opposed. The homeschooling pastor’s wife and adoptive mother of four was not raised in the Reformed Presbyterian Church. She was a self-described “lesbian postmodernist,” (p. 41) […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: autobiography, Christian hospitality, church, conversion, education, English and Queer Theory, faith, gospel, homeschooling, LGBT, pastor's wife, postmodernism, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, sexuality, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert

Academics Coming to Faith

August 7, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Do we enter the fall with the anticipation of colleagues coming to faith? Several years ago, InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministry Staff Christian Anible wrote The Conversion of a Scholar: A Reflection on Augustine’s Confessions.  Take a few minutes to read his essay and prayerfully consider who God has called you to be present with in […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Public Intellectuals Tagged With: Augustine, Confessions, conversion, evangelism

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