Jason Stellman's new trajectory

[jwright82]

A Theopoetics of Exile: God is Dead. Long Live God. - Jason J. Stellman

We have seen throughout this series that participating in the death of God involves crucifying our own idols, “God” included. But then what? Is there a resurrection? Kinda. According to the New Testament gospels, Jesus died on a cross, was buried in a tomb, and then emerged from the tomb on the...

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Well he went from FV prosecutor in the PCA to RCC and now, with all due respect, to Peter Rollins wannabe. I'll post some stuff by Peter Rollins so you know who I'm talking about.
A "Misfit Faith" indeed. I read some of the post's in the link above and I immediately recognized Peter Rollins influence. It's truly sad to be honest that he's fallen so far. Truly our prayers should be with him at this point.
That said he merely "parrot's" like some cool/hip teenager who thinks they finally figured out the world but who honestly listens to a teenager about life (no offense meant to our younger members of course)? I'm referring to that book I heard about, about how adults are just grown up teenagers now.
I will say this at least Peter Rollins, in his first book at least, truly understands Postmodernism. After all his PhD was on the subject. Jean Luc Marion also talks about the "Death of God" but in a more philosophical "God above/beyond metaphysics" , who is a Roman Catholic student of Derrida.
But Stellman doesn't, it seems to me, have the expertise of those two. In short Stellman is easy to critique but the other two are much more difficult.
I almost wonder if Rollins and Stellman are just using Postmodern language to critique the institutional church?

 

[jwright82]

About — PETER ROLLINS

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Here's his website. I gather this whole movement is trying, to be generous, to show how traditional Christianity (theology and institution) is wrong headed. So in our post-whatever society we have to recreate for ourselves what the true (ironically) Christianity is. But I don't think that Jesus and Paul would be postmodern hipsters who can (with different degrees of accuracy) quote Derrida, while sipping a vegan grande or whatever.
Sorry if I seem overly "snarky" about it all but I far more enjoy reading a Marion over some postmodern garbage. I've been immersed in that stuff for too long.
I can resonate with a "God beyond God" of Marion or Caputo as them taking aim at pretentious theology that Barth critiqued as something like dragging or trapping God in our concepts. I can simply agree and respond "but that's not the Biblical message at all as crystalized in the Reformed Tradition". We have a third way that cuts across the problems of both your houses.
It always makes me happy to be Reformed for that reason, we don't have the problems they have. We should and are out there showing how great the Kingdom is and how empty theirs is.

 

[RamistThomist]

Is he still a Roman Catholic?

 

[jwright82]

I have no idea but that website I posted in the OP is his. So you can see for yourself. I remember when he became RCC and then I found this. He's apparently a licensed counselor now, in religious trauma or something. You should explore, if you can stomach it, the website. But I don't know. Let me see.

Amazon.com

In the books description it says he became RCC but then still felt lost? He's got a Podcast now, Drunk Ex-Pastors I believe.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

Is he still a Roman Catholic?

He is "sorta" according to this source.

 

[jwright82]

RELIC - Jason J. Stellman

Relic is a community where we explore the intersection of subversive theology, postmodern thought, and popular culture. Our passion is to dive deep into provocative discussions that unravel the complexities of contemporary beliefs, ethical questions, religious trauma, and philosophical ideas as...

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PODCAST - The Bible For Normal People

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I don't know but like Peter Enns he thinks this "pithy, ironic, edgy" postmodern stuff is hip or something. They're both older than me trying to be hip. I'll stop. BTW I work with teenagers and they don't think stuff like this is cool. They're still trying to figure out life.

 

[RamistThomist]

They're both older than me trying to be hip. I'll stop.

One of my students asked me how my weekend was.

Me: Totes lit, fam.

Her: Never say that again.

 

[jwright82]

Jason Stellman – Old Life

Posts about Jason Stellman written by D. G. Hart

oldlife.org

An interesting thing Stellman wrote on the PCA, it's on "Old Life" blog.

 

[jwright82]

One of my students asked me how my weekend was.

Me: Totes lit, fam.

Her: Never say that again.

Tell me about it. My younger colleges jokingly call me old all the time, or like "oh, that's just old man talk". We all laugh and some of them will listen to my "wisdom" about stuff, sometimes. They ask "how do you know that's a bad idea?" I'll respond "because in 42 years I've never seen that work out for somebody".

 

[Charles Johnson]

One of my students asked me how my weekend was.

Me: Totes lit, fam.

Her: Never say that again.

My students say cool things are "straight bussing" now. I think they're really excited about racially integrating public schools.

 

[jwright82]

I just can't believe how far he's fallen. I'd love to hear R Scott Clark's opinion on this.

 

[Edward]

My students say cool things are "straight bussing" now.

That's groovy, man.

 

[arapahoepark]

That's groovy, man.

Gen Alpha or whatever they are now would say it's sigma skibbiti... I wish people would speak English.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

One of my students asked me how my weekend was.

Me: Totes lit, fam.

Her: Never say that again.

I do that to my kids.

 

[jwright82]

Gen Alpha or whatever they are now would say it's sigma skibbiti... I wish people would speak English.

I know but in their defense I've noticed that sometimes I'll remark with a saying that they've never heard before because it's more of a "old people" saying. Also I was raised around country folk, who can have a unique way of talking.
But back to the OP. I came across this in my recent restudying of what my proposed PhD was going to be about and I dialed into "The Death of God" idea, I started another thread on it if y'all are interested.
But in his case I think he's doing it because he thinks it's cool or something. That's the impression I get from reading his blog, the other guy is more of a skeptic (haven't seen that "trope" played out before). So I guess the whole thing is to prove they're more "objective" than other people because of their experience.
Of course that's just more of that postmodern garbage. If people, who seem to be having a mid-life crisis, all of a sudden realize how "cool" Postmodernism is than that probably means that it's dead.
They're everything "cringy" about Postmodernism.

 

[RamistThomist]

I just can't believe how far he's fallen. I'd love to hear R Scott Clark's opinion on this.

O can. He began with a hyper skeptical epistemology (without the pope how can we know anything?)

 

[Joshua]

Who?

 

[Knight]

Who?

An apostate nobody whom I would've never thought about again except for his being mentioned in this thread. I'll forget about him again the moment this thread dies.

 

[EvanF]

Who?

He was somewhat well known around 2010ish because of his role as prosecutor in Peter Leithart's heresy trial. He was soon thereafter subject of scandal when he revealed that he no longer believed in the teachings of the reformed confessions and now believed in the teachings of Rome. He said that he had determined already to leave the reformed faith at the time of the trial.

 

[Joshua]

WUT?!

 

[J.L. Allen]

O can. He began with a hyper skeptical epistemology (without the pope how can we know anything?)

Who?

You know... pointy hat and funny slippers. Everyone calls him papa.

 

[Joshua]

EH?

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

Given that he wrote a book on neo-two kingdom theology, and was the prosecutor in the case against Peter Leithart, the man had a considerable influence within the confessional Reformed world at one point.

 

[Joshua]

I recall now he used to post here...

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

I recall now he used to post here...

Yes, I was just about to say I vaguely remembered him posting on the Puritan Board. He also used to comment a bit on the Green Baggins blog.