Theology
In a secular age, Bonhoeffer’s “religionless Christianity” is evergreen
Peter Hooten considers the concept in relationship to the theologian’s entire body of work.
How White Christians turned syncretism into an insult
Early-20th-century European and North American missionaries grew concerned about it—but never in their own churches.
Teaching theology in anxious times
“In God’s world, there are always new possibilities—some of which reside in things we find threatening.”
Imagination as a lens for making sense of the world
Cultivating a shared Christian imagination
A Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard
Clare Carlisle helps readers struggle with what it means to be human in the world.
When liturgy embraces difference
Rebecca Spurrier’s study of a “disabled church” and its lessons for all Christians
Kathryn Tanner’s anti-work ethic
The theologian doesn’t want finance capitalism to determine what we’re worth.
The “Christian century” and the people who lived it
Brian Stanley pulls off a readable, one-volume history of 20th-century Christianity.
How Christian was Meister Eckhart?
The eccentric preacher's ideas hover between God's absolute otherness and God's self-revelation in Christ.
In praise of gravity
My understanding of God has become a welcome object of gravity, as it moved from heady abstractions to my gut.
Engaging the mystics
While women have historically been bound by family obligations, household chores, or desperate poverty, there have been monasteries throughout history that allowed some to focus on their vocation without those typical pressures.
The New Testament in the strange words of David Bentley Hart
Greek and English do not work the same way. So what does it mean to create a literal translation?
A more intimate portrait of Bonhoeffer
Diane Reynolds’s book would be worth its price for its insistence on noticing the women at every turn in Bonhoeffer’s life.
Three in one around the world
What's more important: calculating the logic of the Trinity, or doing theology across cultures?
Does humility require doubt?
Mark Stenberg takes aim at Christian certainty. I'm not certain that's our problem.
A space where we can learn about white supremacy and the church together
Join me in June for Duke Divinity's 'Summer Institute for Reconciliation' to learn together how we can subvert the currents of racial hierarchy and racism that permeate our lives.
A conversation about theology and psychology
Pastors know that religion and psychology are intimately connected. But what about theology and psychology? Can these two very different fields of study talk to each other? What do theologians have to say to psychologists and vice versa?
On May 14 at 8 p.m. EST, the Century is cosponsoring an event with the Center of Theological Inquiry to explore these questions.
What do you do when you find out the theologian you respected is kind of slimy?
It happens all the time: I’m reading a beautiful piece of theology, and while the thinker is waxing on elegantly about God and man, he barrels in on the subject of women or Jewish people, and suddenly I’m hit by a barrage of nastiness.