Karam Forum 2017 opened with a rich, challenging lecture from Kevin Vanhoozer on “Learning Christ.” Vanhoozer argued that over the last two centuries, theological education has been structured according to implicitly secular understandings of academic knowledge. Biblical interpretation, he said, is not merely a pursuit of academic knowledge but is, at bottom, a form of […]
Archives for September 2017
Economics of Love at ETS, Human Flourishing at AAR
Heads up if you’re attending ETS in Providence or AAR in Boston this November! The ON will be serving up stimulating panels at both meetings. The Economics of Love at ETS Tom Nelson will discuss his transformative new book, The Economics of Neighborly Love, at the Oikonomia Network’s annual lunch event during the Evangelical Theological Society […]
Amy Sherman on Karam Forum Classroom Applications
Amy Sherman, senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute and director of the Center on Faith in Communities, gave a two-session presentation on “fresh pedagogies” for theological education at the inaugural Karam Forum. Most theological education follows the “sage on the stage” model, which Sherman affirms is useful and valuable. But other methods are needed, because […]
Teaching Old Testament and New Testament – Women at Work
Stories from, about and for women at work have not often been told as prominently as those of men in Christian contexts and discussions about work and economic life. Where to Start? One important starting point for Christians must be to take a fresh look at what the Bible has to say about women and […]
Forster on the Mission of Higher Education at Karam Forum
Karam Forum 2017 closed with Oikonomia Network Director Greg Forster’s inspiring call to renew the vision of Christian higher education serving God’s people and God’s world. Forster emphasized that the church’s crisis of discipleship and the world’s public crises have a common root – the church needs to find new ways to infuse the holy […]
Faith, Work and Eschatology
Note: This article spotlights the work of John Taylor, an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. One of the persistent tensions in Christian theology and practice has been between under-realized and over-realized eschatology, which could also be called the balance between realized and future eschatology. The question is how much the final eschatological blessings […]