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    Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age
    Augustinian Studies 46 (2): 255-257. 2015.
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    Buoys for eccentric existence
    Modern Theology 27 (1): 14-25. 2011.
    David Kelsey's Eccentric Existence argues that what we need is a “systematically unsystematic” account of human existence, a set of “buoys” or non‐negotiable convictions articulated on the basis of canonical Scriptures, leaving abundant room for philosophers and other non‐theologians to make their contributions. Embodied persons themselves/ourselves are constituted in three irreducibly complex canonically biblical narratives as creatures, reconciled, and consummated—although it is not always cle…Read more
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    Ruminations on modern theology
    Modern Theology 26 (1): 20-25. 2010.
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    Roger Haight's mediating christology
    Modern Theology 23 (1): 107-112. 2007.
    Roger Haight's Christology is an instance of distinctively modern Vermittlungstheologie, to be distinguished from biblical or traditional versions of mediation because it employs an apologetic method to restore putatively lost Christological immediacies. In so far as such a theology seek to communicate Christian doctrine “in a language of commonly shared principles”, it cannot do justice to Jesus Christ's singularity—although the best way to further criticize any mediating Christology would be b…Read more
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