Christ, History and Apocalyptic: a week off for further thought

This week the Church and Postmodern Culture blog is taking a week off from having a new in-depth discussion on Nathan Kerr's Christ, History and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission, and for a good reason: we're done!  We will return next week with a 'final' response to the conversation as a whole from the author himself.  Nate informs me that he welcomes the conversation continuing on the posts (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6), and he will continue to engage the conversation in comments until his post next week, where of course he will be commenting in that discussion as well.

In the meantime, I wanted to post some links to blog posts on Halden Doerge's excellent Inhabitatio Dei blog.  Over the last few weeks, Halden has been continuing the conversation on this blog onto his own, spawning new conversations on the issues raised here in an attempt to formulate and think through his own understanding of the issues raised in this symposium around Christ, History and Apocalyptic:

• Nate Kerr's Hauerwas: A Summary
• Mission and Apocalyptic Ecclesiology
• The Church as Polis? Some Biblical Reflections

In response to questions Steve Long asked here, Halden also has these three posts:

• The Church as Apocalyptic Event and Church Discipline
• The Church as Apocalyptic Event and Common Confession
• The Church as Apocalyptic Event, Baptism, Eucharist, and Discipleship

Further posts:

• Tim Furry: Christ, History and Apocalyptic: A Review (Part 1)
• Tim Furry: Christ, History and Apocalyptic: A Review (Part 2)
• Tim Furry: Christ, History and Apocalyptic: A Review (Part 3)
• Tim Furry: An Update on Part 3
• Nate Kerr (on Tim's blog): Nate Kerr's Response to the Preceding Dialogue
• Ben Myers: Nate Kerr: Christ, History and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission, an excerpt and discussion
• Ben Myers: Once more with Nate Kerr: liturgy as dispossession

I'm not just trying to promote Halden's blog, as much as it deserves it: a simple search on Technorati simply turned up no other discussions (aside from mere linkage) forming around the posts engaging Kerr's book.*  Thank you all who have participated thus far, and stay around for more discussion until Nate posts a final response in this space early next week.

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*If, by chance, I've missed another discussion elsewhere, please let me know in the comments and I will update the body of this post to reflect where this discussion has been furthered on the blogs.

Comments

[Halden]

Thanks for the kind promotion of my blog. I hope that whatever I have said helps to extend the conversation in helpful ways. I do hope to finish responding to Steve Long's questions this week, as well, so there is more to come.

[Dave Belcher]

Hi Eric,

Here are a few more conversations.

Ben Myers posted a couple of things (including a lengthy review), and each post drew a host of comments.

Tim Furry had an in-depth 3-part review with Nate's response and also a host of comments.

Both discussions were engaging and helpful.

I would also like to remind all readers who will be attending the Wesleyan Theological Society conference this weekend that I will be moderating a panel discussing Nate's book, with Samuel Powell, Michael Cartwright, and John Wright (though John will unfortunately only be able to join us by proxy -- but he will be there with us in spirit!), and of course with Nate responding. It looks to be an excellent event. For scheduling purposes, it is the very last session before closing communion on Saturday, March 7. Peace.

[Eric Lee]

Dave, thanks, and duly noted. I've updated the post above.

[Tim F.]

Dave, thanks for making the discussion on my blog known, and thanks to Eric for posting it.

Many Blessings,

Tim