Experimental Theology


...trudging into the distance in the bleeding stinking mad shadow of Jesus...the Lord out of dust had created him, had made him blood and nerve and mind, had made him to bleed and weep and think, and set him in a world of loss and fire... --Flannery O'Connor

1.30.2026

Psalm 139

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"Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in ...
1.29.2026

God Is Not a Hot Mess: Wrath and Guilt as Anti-Relation to Love

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In yesterday’s post I described how classical theism contradicts (to my eye) penal substitutionary atonement. That is to say, if we describe...
1.28.2026

Classical Theism Contradicts Penal Substitutionary Atonement

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Over the last few years I have been describing Jesus’ death on the cross as a theophany of God’s love for us. I expound on this in my upcomi...
1.27.2026

On Finitude and the Problem of Evil: Part 5, To Exist is Good

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In the last post we reflected upon David Kelsey's work in his book Eccentric Existence . Following Kelsey, if we take our creation theol...
1.26.2026

On Finitude and the Problem of Evil: Part 4, The Creation Theology of the Wisdom Tradition

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In Eccentric Existence , his epic two-volume work, David Kelsey makes the choice to ground his theological anthropology in the creation theo...
1.23.2026

Psalm 138

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"thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name" There’s a curious line in Psalm 138:2. A literal rendering of the Hebrew, given ...
1.22.2026

On Finitude and the Problem of Evil: Part 3, Evil and the Fall

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In the last post I made the point that to exist is to be shadowed by finitude and contingency. And if our experience of finitude and conting...
1.21.2026

On Finitude and the Problem of Evil: Part 2, Existence as Creatures

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We are born into contingency. We are finite creatures subject to entropy. We cannot hold ourselves in being. We slide into nothingness. Bibl...
1.20.2026

On Finitude and the Problem of Evil: Part 1, The Happiness of Sisyphus

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Albert Camus famously opens his book The Myth of Sisyphus with these lines: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that...
1.19.2026

On Intentionality: Part 8, The New Normal Was the Old Normal

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Last post in this series reflecting upon intentionality. Gathering up these reflections, let me suggest that I’ve made two big points. Fir...
1.16.2026

Psalm 137

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"Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks." We reach what is, perhaps, the most notorious line in ...
1.15.2026

On Intentionality: Part 7, The Heart of the Christian Moral Life

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Over the last few posts we've been discussing concerns about how calls for intentionality might contribute to the fragilization of faith...
1.14.2026

On Intentionality: Part 6, Tradition is No Escape

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In this post I want to pick up where I left off in the last post.  To recap, one of the ways many low-church non-denominational Christians a...
1.13.2026

On Intentionality: Part 5, Seeking a Thick Culture

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Given the modern loss of a taken-for-granted Christian culture, what have been some Christian responses? Where do we see people trying to re...
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