ximenez

Joined E2 about 4 years ago and posted a lot of stuff on religion. Went away for a long time. In the meantime, I got am MA (in Catholic theology), moved to Michigan, got married, got into a Ph.D. program in Christian history at the University of Chicago, moved back to Chicago, got interested in the end times, joined the Disciples of Christ, and began studying for the ministry. That's a reasonably short summary!

The list below is intended for my purposes; if it's useful, great.

Dispensationalism & Fundamentalism

• Pre-tribulation rapture
• dispenationalism
• The Rapture

Biblical criticism & reading

• Gospel of Thomas
• When were the gospels written?
• Are the gospels reliable?
• How was the Bible canonized?
• 200 foreskins
• Bible contradictions

The nature of belief

• Faith in God is really no more than faith in yourself
• A Christian viewpoint on existentialism
• the objective meaninglessness of life
• Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
• No one can be totally logical
• Being a Christian is magical and foolish: Maybe we're all caught up in a collective psychosis
• what does it mean to be religious?

Theology that's useful

• Trinity
• justification by faith
• bad theology
• There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow

Bits

• Christianity does not exist
• Implicit anti-Semitism in liberal Christianity
• Gnosticism

Topics that haven't received the benefit of my genius

• John Calvin
• Martin Luther
• Calvin
• Karl Barth
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Philip Melanchthon
• free will
• predestination
• There is an infinite distance between us and God
• Hell
• process theology
• Hell isn't such a bad idea after all
• William of Ockham
• Calvinism
• Nominalism
• Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Bandits
• Disciples of Christ
• Gabriel Biel
• late medieval
• The Rise of Christianity
• Liberal Christianity