Items of Note (6/9/10)

• Kingdom-World-Church: Some Provisional Theses
  Nate Kerr, Ry Siggelkow, and Halden Doerge ask the “ecclesiocentrists,” Where in the world is the church?
• Which Kingdom? What World? Whose Church?
  Jamie Smith undertakes a quick response. Choice quote, sure to raise apocalyptic hackles: “No one will accuse you of light prose. Seriously, this sentence is positively Milbankian.” (Update – 6/9/10: See also Marquette theologian Stephen Long’s response.)
• Actions Now Have Consequences
  Ephraim Radner analyzes Rowan Williams’ Pentecost letter, which for all its gentility must be the Anglican version of a nuclear option.
• Symposium: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
  The newest Modern Theology hosts pieces on Taylor’s weighty tome by Stanley Hauerwas, Fergus Kerr, Graham Ward, Gregory Baum, et al. Plus: Taylor’s response.
• Living God’s Ongoing Story
  Michael Horton reviews N.T. Wright’s After You Believe in Christianity Today, suggesting that Wright misreads the reformers on virtue. Wright responds briefly here.
• Are You a Christian Hipster?
  In advance of Brett McCracken’s new book, take the Hipster IQ test. Try and beat out the score of this very square Calvinist: 91/120.
• Vanhoozer II – Anything of Substance?
  Calvin scholar Paul Helm continues (see part one) to go after the metaphysics of Kevin Vanhoozer’s new volume Remythologizing Theology.
• Two Kingdoms and Cultural Obedience
  Neo-Calvinist (but not New Calvinist) David Koyzis strikes at the Reformed subset of two-kingdoms theology.