Take & read: Practical theology
New books that are shaping conversations about practical theology
Theology
Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?
When we make sense of suffering, we lose our ability to protest against it.
Candida Moss asks what bodily resurrection means
How early Christians thought about bodies and how we do
The relational religion of Martin Buber
Behind the man’s life’s work is a broken-hearted child.
Jesus in conversation with three women in the Gospels
What the Bible doesn't say about hell
Doing theology with the assumption that queer people belong
Linn Marie Tonstad summarizes a far more interesting conversation about sex and gender than the one I grew up with.
Not just suffering
In Luke’s postresurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic.
She was the C. S. Lewis of her time.
I see love incarnate in suffering flesh, a body bearing a body in pain for love.
The pastor and mentor to Martin Luther King formed a vision of resistance around prayer, not politics.
Rowan Williams sees creation through the human, divine Christ
The incarnation doesn’t require a miracle; it reveals one that’s already there.
Elaine Pagels’s lifelong search for the sacred
Pagels vividly recounts her spiritual experiences. But she won’t let herself be bound by any tradition.
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