Who Jesus Is, and Why That Matters for the Church: Remembering Carl Braaten By Andrew Christiansen Carl E. Braaten (1929-2023) was blessed with a long life, and was an active theologian for most of it, even up until a few years ago. Braaten was born in Madagascar to Lutheran mission... Read More...
Ranking the Theologians By Jeff Boldt When I get a rare moment of inactivity and my thoughts can wander, I often come back to the question of what makes a good theologian. Why do I like the theologians I like? These are rather imp... Read More...
Invasion By George Sumner Thirty years ago I wrote a dissertation on the Systematic Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg. At the time a critic said that Pannenberg had offered a powerful response to modernity just in time for no one any longer to care, and his subsequent... Read More...