Articles by Lois Malcolm

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Christ the Key

Kathryn Tanner

Christ the Key

Aug 03, 2010 reviewed by Lois Malcolm

How is God involved in our lives? We often have difficulty answering this question. And when we do answer it, our ideas tend to be simplistic. We either think of God as an alien, almost magical force that immediately and directly intervenes in our lives, or we think of God as an enhancement—a better and larger version—of our natural capacities.

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God as best seller

Deepak Chopra, Neal Walsch and New Age theology
Sep 20, 2003 by Lois Malcolm
A walk down the aisle of any major bookstore reveals that spirituality sells, and that spirituality is not confined to the “religion” or “Christian inspiration” sections. Diverse though the literature on spirituality is, a body of popular teachings about God—and how we might experience God—is emerging within it.
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Divine Hiddenness, by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul K. Moser

Jan 11, 2003 reviewed by Lois Malcolm

If God exists, then why hasn't he made his existence sufficiently clear? The philosopher J. L. Schellenberg asked this question and concluded that God does not exist (Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason, 1993). If there were a perfectly loving God, this God would see to it that everyone capable and desirous of a personal relationship with him had the evidence to believe that he exists.

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The impossible God

An interview with David Tracy
Feb 13, 2002 by Lois Malcolm
With books like Blessed Rage for Order (1975) and The Analogical Imagination (1981), David Tracy became widely recognized as an important revisionist theologian—one who revised Christian categories in view of modern categories of thought.
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Radical, orthodox

John Milbank's recovery of theology

Oct 25, 2000 by Lois Malcolm

Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason, by John Milbank
The World Made Strange: Theology, Language, Culture, by John Milbank
Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, by John Milbank