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AndyRowell

  1. As usual, enjoying what Alan Jacobs @ayjay has highlighted for me to read this morning at: ayjay.tumblr.com
  2. Duke Graduate Program in Religion Ph.D. dissertations available online. 36 of them from 2007-2011. dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/browse?… H/T @goodacre
  3. A very fine judicious theological review of Christian Smith's Biblicism book by Mark Bowald. colossianforum.org/2012/05/16/boo… H/T Joseph Mangina
  4. Barth "It is not that theology itself has to preach" but rather to serve as "guard duty over the guards." Theology and Church, pp. 303-304.
  5. Barth: "I cannot help it if this word 'dialectic' . . . immediately becomes a bogy with which one frightens children." books.google.com/books?ei=UZi2T…
  6. Barth on Church's "relative" authority. "Under this presupposition, it would be judged better not to burn one another." books.google.com/books?ei=UZi2T…
  7. @grant_armstrong @davidhaus Recommended theology on twitter: see @faiththeology @WTravisMcMaken @james_ka_smith @theonetruemyles @agnologist
  8. RT @donaldmiller My main advice to young writers: Memorize poetry. As much as you can. It teaches an economy of words. /How bout tweets? :-)
  9. Most counties that voted against amend. have universities: Duke-Durha, UNC-Orang, NC St & Wake For-Wake, Davidson-Meck. wral.com/news/political…
  10. Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) writes, "I’m right where he is: I cannot justify watching football. Not with what I know now." ayjay.tumblr.com/post/222803666…
  11. RT @Andy_Staples Junior Seau's suicide: I hope football didn't do this but football has lost the benefit of the doubt. sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/a…
  12. For some, Barth’s dogmatic ecclesiology that they so admire, leads, Barth thinks, to polity that they find unpalatable. #dissertationpuns
  13. Bishop Will Willimon says guaranteed appointment is problematic but bishops can already partly resist it. ministrymatters.com/all/video/entr… @ShaneRaynor
  14. RT @bethfelkerjones No more tenure for Methodist pastors fb.me/1HYVTD7zj / Wow. United Methodist Church guaranteed appointment ended.
  15. I wrote a blogpost on Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Douglas Campbell, and Pauline Soteriology: andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/20…