Earlier today I had the following stream of conversation on twitter (read bottom to top),

Here is my reply.
Let me first lay the context of the original statement, which is actually a stolen quote from Rowan Williams’ book. He is talking about Sonya, the character from Crime and Punishment, who Dostoevsky creates as the one who [...]

So in a recent post I talked about how the central that freedom has in the work of Dostoevsky. Why he sees it as being so important is that through our freedom we have to opportunity & possibility of fulfilling what it means to be human, what could be understood as the divination of man [...]

I want to try to spell out some of the ideas that Rowan Williams lays out in his chapter on the demonic in Dostoevsky’s writing. It is really interesting stuff, also is of interest following the Nightline debate of the Devil which I recently was able to watch and discuss with some folks.
I’ll first try [...]

I have begun preparations for a class, on the book of Romans, which I will be leading beginning in January. When my associate from church and I were at the emergent conference on Paul back a few months ago, he picked up a book on Romans by the theologian Dr. A. Katherine Grieb.
I haven’t read [...]