Response to Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Introduction or Invocation

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Here Bolz-Weber talks about how very few people fit neatly into God’s prescribed parameters for sexual expression. This of course is true. And I would agree with her that it is wrong that the Conservative Evangelical community for far too long has made it out like there are those with a normal sexuality and everyone else. Those with a normal sexuality may…..

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Response to Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Background Points to Keep in Mind Throughout this Series

Yes I’ve Read the Whole Book

I know some might accuse me, given the way I am approaching this series, of just diving into each chapter and simply tearing apart each paragraph as I see fit. And they might say that this is not a fair way to respond to the book as I might not understand the full arguments being made…..

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This next series that I am about to embark upon is a response, not a review. At first I was just going to write another review, but others in my community have already done this and I feel that this book (Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber) is too important to simply write another review about it. I am going to be writing a full-length response to this book. I will be covering the book chapter by chapter, paragraph by paragraph. I understand that…..

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TECHNICAL ARTICLE

Preliminary Remarks

This response is to a man by the name Daniel Hawkins, as the title of this article clearly implies. He responded to one of my mini-debates with Hendrik over on Alisa Childers’ website. To see that full exchange, you can go to her website that I’ve referenced many times on this site and search for her podcast and article on her responding to Pete Enns.

Daniel responded to this mini-debate first with a comment, then…..

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So I have apologized a bunch of times for my past lapses between blog articles, but at this point I’m not going to apologize so much as just admit my embarrassment. For blogs to work, they take a lot of attention. I felt like I started out strong, but have definitely fizzled and this bums me out for sure. I am going to try hard to get back on track, but I know that I’ve made similar promises in the…..

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Oh man oh man, my poor, poor, pathetic, sad, and very neglected blog. Thank you so much to my regulars whom I have been in contact with for being so patient. To anyone else, I thank you for your patience as well and apologize for the massive delay. I have been absolutely immersed in the work of beginning this church plant. After my divorce, I genuinely thought my formal ministry days were done and I was ok with that as…..

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Finally! Oh man I’m so sorry to everyone that it has taken me so long to get back to this series, but I’m so pumped to be doing so as this is such an important topic. I’m going to do my best to do a good job with this article, but if there are more typos than usual or even more less than stellar grammar, syntax, etc., than usual, it is because I am having to rush a bit as…..

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In this response I will again be speaking directly to Hendrik and I will be flipping things around and asking him to seriously deal with the insurmountable problems that are attached to his position.

The most crucial problem with all progressive Christian approaches to Christianity is the doctrine of inerrancy. The progressive Christian cannot have it both ways. He or she says that he or she believes in the gist of the Bible or the basic theme of the Bible…..

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Hey all, I’m back and a couple days earlier than I said at that! I will be providing the next installment from the Progressive Christian Marcionism series on Mon. But today I wanted to respond to a comment that was made to me by a guy named Hendrik over on Alisa Childers’ website. It comes in the context of Alisa’s most recent article on Rob Bell. Please look through the comments for the context. Before I do respond I want…..

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So I don’t have a lot of regular readers (yet! Lord willing of course), but I do have some and I’m so grateful to them. And they have been asking what is taking so long with my next blog article. While I have actually talked to all of them personally, I still felt that I should put up something official in case anyone else comes by the site and wonders what is up. I unfortunately have taken so long and…..

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