I was in Pseud's Corner for this:
'I am not that comfortable saying "I believe in God", which sounds like a pseudo-scientific theory about the universe. I prefer to say that I affirm the rhetorical idiom in which God is the most basic reality.'
I am proud of this quote: it sums up much of my approach to theology.
Academic articles
I will summarise some of my recent articles monosyllabically.
Against Hauerwas (New Blackfriars, 2007)
This man thinks the church is the same thing as God's rule. This is wrong.
Strange Calling: a Theological Approach to Larkin (Literature and Theology, 2007)
This man half-thinks he's called. By God? by the Muse? Who knows? His work is full of the sense that he's not like the rest of us. Some of it shows how art is soaked with faith, in a wide sense. If you lack good faith, you might serve a bad force.
The Policing of Signs: Sacramentalism and Authority in Rowan Williams' Theology (Scottish Journal of Theology, 2008)
This man sort of thinks the church is the same thing as God's rule, that one can't diss it, just try to make it serve Christ as well as it can. But what if church is tied to rules that keep Christ tied down? Why can't God-signs be free?
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