Volf, Dawkins, Wright, Smith, Derrida, and Tim.

My friend Tim Barenscheer and I have been highly involved with each other's development as we journey through our philosophical wonderings and thoughts on the Kingdom of God. It's a beautiful thing having a contemporary and friend with whom honesty and vulnerability exist genuinely without pretense. I've been sharing my thoughts with Tim about my "Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Philosophy" course including readings from Roxburgh's The Sky is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition, Dawkins' The God Delusion, and James K.A. Smith's Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church. Tim has been conversing with Caputo's What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church and has given me two of N.T. Wright's volumes, Jesus and the Victory of God and The New Testament and the People of God, that I've been wanting and will work through this summer following my course. I gave Tim Miroslav Volf's The End of Memory. Anyone desiring to have a greater understanding of Jesus, culture, and the Kingdom of God may want to check out any or all of the aforementioned texts.

Success makes me happy?

What is success?
What is happiness?

Slippery when following.

Tony,
Well said. Thanks, Adam, for including this post.
There is nothing unslippery about Jesus, that is of course, if we allow the real Jesus to be the one we follow. Following Jesus is risky and disenchanting to popular, comfortable life. If we are daring enough to follow we may slip and fall away from empire worship including the state-nation and the doctrines that suppossedly define the church.
Travis

The preceding was a comment I posted in response to a post by Tony Jones included on Pomomusings.

One final thought for the coming year...

... the Church will be subversively reformed. Part II of the Protestant Reformation is in process and is moving. There is no individual leader. No Martin Luther. That is where the subversiveness enters.

FLUX.

"All is flux." - Heraclitus.

I don't know what life holds.
I don't possess clear vision of the "road ahead."
I don't know.
And that is GOOD.

DISCLAIMER: In an effort to recover from my previous post's usage of modernistic bulleted notes I am defining flux as continuous, fluid movement as opposed to the modern science notions involving measured rates of movement, strength of a force, or a refining substance. Though all may be applicable my original thought processed the existential movement through life.

DISCLAIMER II: I do not necessarily embrace all the thought of the pre-Socratic, Ionian philosopher Heraclitus nor do I necessarily dismiss all his propositions.

JUXTAPOSITION / TOUR / CONSUMPTION / SUBSEQUENT.

This post is to provide a perspective of the direction that my blog will progress for an undetermined amount of time. The next several posts will include thoughts and questions on:

• giving and the juxtaposed consumerism of the supposed celebration of Jesus entering earth in the form of man.
• the neo-lecture given by Rob Bell as introduced in the post below entitled "THE GODS ARE NOT ANGRY TOUR."
• philosophical wonderings that consume much of my mind.
• life experiences and the subsequent production of community, journey, and revelation of truth.

Please excuse the effect that modernism has had on me as revealed by my use of bullets in the above list.