out the closet: a meme

Following Ben Myer's lead

I confess: I warmed to Clark Pinnock's open theism in my youth

I confess: in many theological conversations I'm not always sure what is being said

I confess: I love studying theology and would be quite happy living in a theological library most days of the week

I confess: I often feel I have no idea how to square my Christian faith with other religions

I confess: theological study in no way equates to faithful discipleship

I confess: I find 'evangelical theology' dry and boring

I confess: I find theology and spirituality are closely linked together, they feed each other

I confess: I think baptist theology does have some problems when it comes to a theology of children

I confess: I once went on an alpha course ... but I've never read a purpose driven life

I confess: that one day I would like to write a book

I confess: blogging is becoming a great way to do theology

Comments

[jim gordon]

Hi Andy, I confess I am becoming a collector of blog miss-spellings, my own included.Your second confession is about 'theological conservations' - is this a subliminal yearning for the known, the familiar, the predictable, and even the 'sound'?!? Just kidding..and I haven't read a purpose driven thing either - does that make us aimlessly driven, or purposefully relaxed, or just sensible people trying to live our lives free of someone else's agendas?

[Dave Rattigan]

I confess: I'm a gay liberal Anglican who still enjoys reading theology blogs by Baptists. ;)

[andy goodliff]

Jim. thanks for the correction. My dad is always telling me to read my work through!
I resist books which seem formulaic and becomes not just a book, but a keyring, t-shirt, calendar etc ... the gospel or discipleship becomes something we market rather than cultivating those habits and practices which emerge from following Jesus

[jim gordon]

Andy,decided to play around with the idea that evangelical theology is dry and boring over at my blog - not having a go at your confession, just using it as a chance to highlight the good the bad and the ugly in Evangelical theology - and while acknowledging the bad and the ugly, wanting to put in a word for the good.

Hope to meet you later in the summer when we are around Oxford for the College Staff jamboree (sorry conference).

[andy goodliff]

i saw your post and agree with it. when you say later in the summer - i don't think i start until end of september.