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July 28, 2004

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More on Blogs and theology...

Remember the post I entitles “Prophecy?“? It referenced a Blog post made by Dan at TheyBlinked stating that bloggers will become the next theologians.

Maggi Dawn has some more thoughts on the issue here:

My expertise – what I have to offer to the church, and to the blog-village – is in theology. I doubt that makes me a better blogger, and I know for a fact it doesn’t make me a better Christian. It doesn’t mean I know more about God than you do; it doesn’t mean you can’t disagree with me; it doesn’t mean I’m right all the time. It just means that I have an area of specialist knowledge that is often useful to the church. Most Emerging Church blog-readers don’t have the time or the inclination to slog through four years learning New Testament Greek, or reading everything from St Paul to Pannenberg in order to be able to comment confidently and succinctly on atonement theory or the doctrine of the Trinity. Why should they? They’re already too busy studying medicine, psychology, software, education…
My response (as posted in Maggi’s comment section):
I agree with you Maggi… While I don’t disagree that blogging has opened up a new arena for theology — one that allows lay-people (or unschooled people) to voice their opinions in a respected way. And Will says it well: “Blogging can be a spiritual discipline…”

“While not every blogger may become a theologian, per se, I think every blogger can help to make our theology better.
I do believe that blogging has created something new — something that challenges the norm by allowing erstwhile unheard voices to be heard. I believe that “certified” theologians are being changed and challenged by these voices. This is what blogging has done for theology.

In my original post, I said that I believed what Dan said but that I sensed a bit of skepticism in his writing… Maybe that was just me after all. I don’t know if those of us who Blog about theology (albeit, in my case, somewhat irregularly) will become theologians, but we definitely have the power to change theology as we know it.

And the power to change someething can be more powerful than the structures that surround it (thanks, Jesus!).

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Comments (3):
hey tim, thanks for visiting my photoblog. i’ll try to see if I can make an RSS feed…. i don’t really know what it is! :)

jenn () (URL) - July 28, 2004 at 08:04 am

I agree thatg bloggers can bring about a new theology because they need not be affiliated with a specific religion.

For example, most theologians go with the assumption that God is an all perfect God who decided to create the physical world. What if God creates the physical world because God is physical? What if God creates by growing and maturing the way the rest of the world operates?

We have been using the same definition of God for the last four thousand years. It’s about time for a change.

John (URL) - March 17, 2005 at 9:58 pm

Thanks for stopping by, John… You may get a kick out of this recent entry I wrote:

http://sense-datum.org/tim/pivot/entry.p..

timsamoff () (URL) - March 18, 2005 at 06:12 am

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