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David Gushee

Seeking the Kingdom

Opinion: Let’s get out of Afghanistan

Seeking The Kingdom

By David Gushee

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

(ABP) -- It's time to get out of Afghanistan, because it's a war we can no longer win -- or afford.

Seeking The Kingdom

By David Gushee

Monday, August 24, 2009

(ABP) -- The national debate raging over health-care reform has become a maelstrom of competing claims and counterclaims. It has been deeply infected by political demagoguery and hysteria.

Opinion: Christ at the center of life

Seeking The Kingdom

By David Gushee

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

(ABP) -- I have spent much of the summer reading the massive Fortress Press critical edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics. Insights drawn from that reading will show up in this column now and again in days to come. Here’s a first shot.

Seeking The Kingdom

By David Gushee

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

(ABP) -- Moderate Baptists have distinguished themselves from their more conservative and fundamentalist brothers and sisters for a generation through their elevation of freedom of conscience to a near-absolute good. While the conservatives who came to dominate the Southern Baptist Convention increasingly focused on defining and requiring (their particular version of) doctrinal orthodoxy, moderate Baptists proclaimed that freedom of individual conscience before God is a more distinctive Baptist principle than doctrinal conservatism.

Seeking The Kingdom

By David Gushee

Friday, July 10, 2009

(ABP) -- The past decade or so has witnessed a surge of Christian theological work that features the kingdom of God as its central theme. This is certainly not the only current trend in theology or ethics. On the right, a revived neo-Calvinism holds sway in many quarters. Meanwhile, many younger scholars (among them many Baptists) are attracted to the narrative theology and character ethics most associated with Duke Divinity School’s Stanley Hauerwas and Notre Dame’s Alasdair MacIntyre.

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