Jason J. Stellman
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Missionalism, Church Style
Even the least traveled among us understands that there are such things as cultural “no-nos” that one would be wise to avoid. Wearing a Los Angeles Lakers jersey in South Boston would be one example (albeit a commendable and heroic one to be sure). In the world of American evangelicalism, one of the most offensive […]
Worship and Life between the Already and the Not Yet
“Eschatology… precedes everything,” writes Rev. Jason Stellman in the preface to Dual Citizens. Life on earth can only be understood through the lens of what lies beyond: we can understand the past and present only in light of God’s promises for the future. This is the underlying premise of Stellman’s book, a richly biblical devotional […]
The Destiny of the Species
There’s a not-so-subtle irony in the fact that our education system promotes the idea to our nation’s young people that they are little more than highly evolved animals, and then, when little Johnny grows up and behaves like one, we conclude that his real problem is his lack of education. The idea that man is […]
Shortchanging the World?
As the editor and contributor, C. J. Mahaney begins the book Worldliness by posing the provocative question of whether 1 John 2:15 is still in our Bibles, or if we have, in true Jeffersonian fashion, simply cut out the beloved disciple’s exhortation: “Do not love the world” (15). The reason for such a metaphorical excision […]
“Christ & Culture Revisited” by D. A. Carson
In D. A. Carson’s Christ & Culture Revisited, the author seeks to bring some biblical-theological insights to bear upon H. Richard Niebuhr’s famous work, Christ and Culture. Carson begins with a reminder of Niebuhr’s fivefold typology for discerning the relationship of Christ to culture (chapter 1), and then moves on to provide what he calls […]
