We are facing a worldwide pandemic, causing financial uncertainty and disrupting our ability to travel or even gather in groups. Yet Bonhoeffer’s various seminary projects unfolded against the backdrop of Nazi Germany. Paul House considers what we might learn from Bonhoeffer in our context.
Why Start New Seminaries?
Reintegrating Theology With The Church
“Christian faith, and therefore Christian theology, emerges out of the shock of the gospel…the comprehensive interruption of all things in Jesus Christ (43).” So begins the late Professor John Webster (1955-2016) in a series of six lectures given in 1998 at the University of Otago in New Zealand, recently republished as The Culture of Theology.