About/Index

Apocalypse and Analysis is a theology blog. For an introduction to this blog, see this post. Stephen, the author, is, well, the author. Here is a post about books that have particularly influenced him theologically. These days, posts tend to be about Bernard Lonergan, Scripture, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Pentecostal theology, and Thomas Aquinas.

Here is an index of some of the more substantial posts:

Book Reviews

Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of the Atonement (Gustav Aulén)
Honest to God (J. A. T. Robinson)
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Vladimir Lenin)
Peace to War: Shifting Allegiances in the Assemblies of God (Paul Alexander)
The Judgment of Jonah (Jacques Ellul)
The Lonergan Enterprise (Frederick Crowe)
The Sexual Politics of Meat (Carol J. Adams)
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (Umberto Eco)

Interviews

Interview With Brad Anderson on Chosen Nation: Scripture, Theopolitics, and the Project of National Identity

Textual Summaries

Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
Pars I
Question 1: From the Science of God and the Blessed
Question 2: Pointing and Aspiring to God’s Essence

Hans Urs von Balthasar
A Theology of History
Introduction: Introduction
Chapter One: Christ’s Mode of Time
Chapter Two: The Inclusion of History Within the Life of Christ
Chapter Three: Christ the Norm of History
Chapter Four: History Under the Norm of Christ

Bernard Lonergan:
Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
Introduction: Human Knowing as a Detective Story
Method in Theology
Introduction: Introduction to Method in Theology
Chapter One: Method
Chapter Two: The Human Good
Chapter Three: Meaning
Chapter Four: Religion
Chapter Five: Functional Specialties

Origen of Alexandria
On First Principles
Introduction: Introduction and Preface

Paul Tillich:
Theology of Culture
Chapter One: Religion as a Dimension in Man’s Spiritual Life
Chapter Two: The Two Types of Philosophy of Religion

Scriptural Commentary

Amos 2:4-16: God Does Not Have “A Heart for the Poor”
Romans 1:1-17: A Pentecostal Reading
Romans 12:21: Paul’s Letter to the Romans and the Law of the Cross
Revelation 1:1-3: Jesus Christ in Text and Event
Revelation 1:4-8: Jesus Christ in History and Eternity

On-site Essays

Balthasar and Lonergan on Human Freedom
Jesus’ Self-knowledge in Balthasar’s Mission Christology
Karl Barth’s Inconsistency on the Treatment of Animals
Some Notes on God as Father

Off-site Essay

This Ringing is Not New: Finding Rob Bell in the Reactionary History of Evangelicalism (Wunderkammer Magazine)

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