My new book, Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough, examines the most hotly contested issues of our day: Is it possible to know anything?; Does the kingdom of God include non-Christians?; Is hell for real and forever?; Must you believe something to be saved?; Can you belong before you believe?; Is [...]
Archive for November, 2008
the bottom line
Posted in Emergent Church, Theology, tagged Add new tag, depravity, don't stop believing, michael wittmer, original sin, postmodern, postmodern innovators, postmodernism on November 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Christians make the best lovers
Posted in Christian Worldview, Theology on November 26, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Next week I am guest blogging every day on Zondervan’s koinonia blog (so stop by and make a comment if you’d like). I just composed this one this morning, and before I send it in I thought I’d invite any helpful feedback that you might have. Here it is.
I want to try out a thesis [...]
emergent christians and sexual ethics
Posted in Emergent Church, Ethics on November 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is a recent blog post from Tony Jones, the director of Emergent Village. Any thoughts on his newfound view? The post can be accessed at http://blog.beliefnet.com/tonyjones/2008/11/same-sex-marriage-blogalogue-h.html.
My ETS handout
Posted in Emergent Church, Theology, tagged anti-emergent church, don't stop believing, Emergent Church, grand rapids theological seminary, michael wittmer on November 24, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Since some of you asked, here is the handout for my ETS paper, which will give the general sense of my talk.
Machen on McLaren: A New Kind of Liberal?
Michael Wittmer Evangelical Theological Society
Grand Rapids Theological Seminary November 20, 2008
Michael Wittmer, Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus is Not Enough (Zondervan, [...]
ETS memories
Posted in Christian Worldview, Emergent Church, Theology on November 22, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I just returned from Providence, and though I have more than I can share and not enough time to say it–as there is a stack of papers and writing projects to attend to, here are some personal highlights.
1. Papers–heard a very good one on the latent universalism in Brian McLaren and (I forget his first name) Young, [...]
Gone Fishing–at ETS
Posted in miscellaneous on November 18, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’ll be gone for the rest of this week, fishing for friends, new books, and theological insights at the annual Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, Rhode Island. So if you write a comment this week, it won’t be posted until after the Ohio State-Michigan blowout on Saturday. Meet me here for the post-game celebration.
Response to Rollins in Grand Rapids
Posted in Emergent Church, Theology on November 17, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Here is a short response I wrote over the weekend to the Rollins article posted below. The religion editor of the GR Press said that he is inclined to run it as a guest editorial, so I am hopeful. Any comments or suggestions before it runs?
Near the end I ask why Rollins was invited to [...]
Peter Rollins in Grand Rapids
Posted in Emergent Church, Theology on November 15, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I know I said that I would be off for a week for the ETS conference, but my morning newspaper had this article on Peter Rollins. You can read it at http://www.mlive.com/grpress/lifestyles/index.ssf/2008/11/community_offers_christianity.html. I am contemplating a guest editorial response in the paper, which I may post next week for your feedback. For now, what do you think [...]
what are the weaknesses of emergent?
Posted in Emergent Church on November 14, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I will be gone next week to the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in Rhode Island, so I may not be able to get to this blog after Monday (if I don’t take my computer then I can stuff more books in my carry-on without paying extra to check a bag). Here is an abbreviated synopsis [...]
what do you like about emergent?
Posted in Emergent Church, tagged Add new tag, anti-emergent, don't stop believing, Emergent Church, michael wittmer, postmodern, postmodern innovators, postmodernism on November 11, 2008 | 14 Comments »
My new book, Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough, just arrived. I drove to Zondervan’s warehouse on Friday and picked up over a thousand copies for myself and then spent the weekend reading through them. The first thirty or so were great, the next twenty just seemed like more of the [...]
