Pinchas Lapide on What-Religion and Who-Religion

I'm currently rereading Pinchas Lapide and Moltmann's dialogue, Jewish Monotheism and Christian Trinitarian Doctrine, originally published in German in 1979. It's a great example of what Jewish-Christian dialogue can look like, though I'm sure lots of both Jews and Christians would take issue with their representatives' proposals! Anyway, I just came across this distinction that Lapide …

Follow-up on the Clod-God Split in NZE

This is a follow-up of my earlier post, The Possibility of Rhyming 'Clod' and 'God', in which I claimed there was a split between the words "clod" and "god" in NZ English, as many other Englishes pronounce them with the same vowel length. Since then I have had replies ranging from "That's not how I say …

New Moltmann Article Published

For those interested in Moltmann's early theology I have just had an article published on his relationship to the historian of religion, Mircea Eliade: Cameron Coombe, “Another Origin of the Theology of Hope? Moltmann’s Dependence on Mircea Eliade,” Pacifica 30:1 (2017): 88-101. Here is the abstract: The influence of Mircea Eliade on Moltmann’s work has largely …