Like Minded Deviants

Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Macro-Economics. 

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*Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think of the "Bookshelf" to theory and "Tool Box" as praxis. 

Join us for the second episode of our new "Toolbox"* where we delve into a theological engagement and critique of Socialism and The Pathetic God.

• Bob Goudzwaard, Capitalism and Progress: A Diagnosis of Western Society.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1979 (ISBN: 978-0853647706).
• David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
• Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).

Readings:

1. ‘Socialism and the Planned Economy’, Hay, Chapter 5
2. ‘Treasures on Earth: Economic Ethics in the Kingdom Way’, Gushee & Stassen, Chapter 18
3. ‘The Socialist Countermovement’, Goudzwaard, Chapter 7

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*Note: Each Toolbox episode pairs with a shorter "Toolbox" mini-episode, on for a short lecture unpacking or describing the particular topic  of each "Bookshelf" episode. Think of the "Bookshelf" to Theory and "Tool Box" as praxis.

Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Socialism.

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*Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think of the "Bookshelf" to theory and "Tool Box" as praxis. 

Join us for the first of our new "Toolbox"* For a theological engagement and critique of Capitalism and The Pathetic God.

• Ellul, Jacques, Money and Power.  Second Edition, Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter-Varsity Press, 1984 (ISBN: 978-0877849162).
• David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
• Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).

Readings:

1. ‘The Capitalist Market Economy’, Hay, Chapter 4
2. ‘Treasures on Earth: Economic Ethics in the Kingdom Way’, Gushee & Stassen, Chapter 18
3. ‘Money’, Ellul, Chapter 3

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*Note: Each Toolbox episode pairs with a shorter "Toolbox" mini-episode, on for a short lecture unpacking or describing the particular topic  of each "Bookshelf" episode. Think of the "Bookshelf" to Theory and "Tool Box" as praxis.

Join us for the first of our new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Capitalism.

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*Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think of the "Bookshelf" to Theory and "Tool Box" as praxis. 

In the Church today there is confusion as to how storied, biblical truth might be translated into principles, themes, and motifs that later can be applied to the world that surrounds us.  Like finding a common note in a song, or a common image in a story, we can locate repeatedly appearing images, ideas, or themes running throughout the biblical story, ones that can help us evaluate the economic and political world around us.

In this episode we explore a particular, overarching concept we believe to be at the center of biblical resource management, something that needs to be at the center of all economic systems – Stewardship.

To fit the flow of conversation we have been having so far, our overarching image will need to agree with the topics examined in previous episodes: grace, love, justice, and the kingdom of God.  In future episodes, we will use this approach to evaluate the dominant, overarching economic systems available in the world today, i.e., capitalism and socialism.

Texts:

• David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
• Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).

Readings:

1.   ‘Christianity and Economics: Theological Ethics’, Hay, Chapter 2
2.  ‘Treasures on Earth: Economic Ethics in the Kingdom Way’, Gushee & Stassen, Chapter 18

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What is the goal of all of this?  Where was Jesus headed?  If we are to offer grace as God offered grace, if we are to love in a way that aligns with the Cross, if we are to be just in a way that frees the chains of the poor, how does that fit with the message of the gospel, the message that Jesus came to preach, the core of the message found in the New Testament?

The core of that message can be found in the phrase ‘The Kingdom of God’ – but, as Christian persons who often claim to know about the teachings of the New Testament, we very seldom focus on this central concept.  Why is that?  Why do we find ourselves so ignorant of the central idea that Jesus came emphasizing? In this episode we try to hone in on this concept so that we might find out what the phrase means, and why it matters to us as we try to live lives in the shape of Jesus.

Texts:

• David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, 2nd Edition, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
• J. Andrew Kirk, Good News of the Kingdom Coming: The Marriage of Evangelism and Social Responsibility, InterVarsity Press, 1983 (ISBN: 978-0877849384).
• Stephen Charles Mott, Biblical Ethics and Social Change. Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2011 (ISBN: 978-0199739370).
• Howard A. Snyder, Models of the Kingdom,  Wipf and Stock, 2001 (ISBN: 978-1579107017).

Readings:

• ‘Jesus Began to Proclaim: The Reign of God’, Gushee & Stassen, Chapter 1
• ‘Why the Tide Has Turned’, Kirk, Chapter 3
• ‘The Long March of God’, Mott, Chapter 5
• 'Models of the Kingdom: Sorting Out the Practical Meaning of God's Reign', Snyder (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43052383)

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Justice is a concept, a concept that can be very theoretical and abstract.  But, we must ask ourselves, what does justice look like?

Justice - like everything else we examine  -  must look like Jesus!  Jesus came to fulfill justice proactively, in community, so that we might live and participate in a way that is dynamic, actively toward the fringes and margins of the system, so that those who have previously been excluded by the system might taste participation in the community.  In order for that to happen, we must overturn the tables of our definitions, dismantling the static structures of ‘justice’, which actually are very unjust to the poor.

Come Deviate with us, as explore it means to corporately embody the sort of justice we are speaking about here, as we embrace the Christomorphic shape of justice we find in the picture of Jesus.

Texts:

• David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, 2nd Edition, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
• Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique, Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).
• Stephen Charles Mott, Biblical Ethics and Social Change. Second Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (ISBN: 978-0199739370).

Readings:

• ‘Weightier Matters of the Law: Justice’, Gushee & Stassen, Chapter 7
• ‘God’s Justice and Ours’, Mott, Chapter 4

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The word justice appears in a lot of places in the biblical record.  As a community seeking to follow the pattern of Jesus – a community attempting to live in a way that is Christomporphic, that is ‘in the shape of Jesus’ – we must put the idea of justice as central to our understanding of the good news as did Jesus.

The trouble is, though, we often do not know what justice is.  We often see justice as a ‘one-size-fits-all’ rule that everyone needs to obey equally.  The idea of justice needs to be parsed and better understood. Come deviate with us as we seek to better understand what justice means, especially in light of the call to those who feel prompted to follow a pathetic God.

Texts:

• David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, 2nd Edition, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
• Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique, Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).
• Stephen Charles Mott, Biblical Ethics and Social Change. Second Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (ISBN: 978-0199739370).

Readings:

• ‘Weightier Matters of the Law: Justice’, Gushee & Stassen, Chapter 7
• ‘God’s Justice and Ours’, Mott, Chapter 4

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So many of our popular songs, hit movies, favorite poems, social media spin around us the notion of love.  We all teach about love, sing about love, long for love, shoot--we even cry out for love! That being so, surely we must know what love is, right?!  No doubt, we got love down, don’t we, since we seem obsessively focused on it almost all of the time? Not so fast! Let’s be real, WE know, that YOU know, that we really mean different things when we say, ‘we LOVE tacos’ and ‘we LOVE our significant other’ .

We think the problem might not be that we are so unfamiliar with love - instead, might we not be too familiar with it? If that is so, how might we recognize the kind of love that the gospel story describes about what God in Jesus did for us?  Is love even the best way to describe what we find in the gospel story?  Come Deviate with us and start the conversation! 

Texts:

• David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, 2nd Edition, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
• Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique, Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).
• Richard B. Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics, HarperOne, 1996 (ISBN: 978-0060637965).

Readings:

• ‘The Greatest Commandment: Love’, Gushee & Stassen, Chapter 6
• ‘Three Focal Images: Community, Cross, New Creation’, Hay, Chapter 10

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