Theology

Emerging Essentials

In Why We’re Not Emerging, Kevin DeYoung writes: If the emerging church struggles to find a theological center, it struggles even more to define theological boundaries – not just what they are, but

Tim Keller: What is an Evangelical?

I didn’t have many takers on my question, “What [doctrines] would you put in the essentials list?” So I’m going to go back to a talk by Tim Keller last year

How big is the gospel?

As Justin Taylor has noted, there’s a lot of discussion going on right now about how to define the gospel. Here is a summary: * At T4G a couple of weeks ago, Mark

Deciding what doctrines belong where

After my post on controversy and three levels of doctrine, I came across a short piece written by a Fellowship pastor who is a bit older than me, and who’s certainly seen

Dwell Conference reflections

Some reflections on Dwell: * The strong emphasis on missional theology and practice was refreshing. You should really have theology without mission or mission without theology, but not many conferences balance the two well.