Croall Lectures Update

Many thanks to everyone who has been visiting the blog over the last two weeks to read up on the Croall Lectures from Bruce McCormack in Edinburgh.  It's been great to see some comments and interaction, and I'd welcome more from those who have something to say.

I have just one more lecture write-up to go, which I should get to before the week is out.  This is the first week of the new term here in Aberdeen, so things have been conspiring to keep me from finishing the series as expediently as I would have liked.  The final lecture pressed on issues of kenoticism and "death in God" theology, effectively tying together the material on the atonement and the cry of dereliction from this lecture series with the T.F. Torrance Lectures (f.k.a. Scottish Journal of Theology Lectures) that McCormack gave at St. Andrews in 2007.  The topic of those (still unpublished) lectures was a new account of Reformed kenoticism.

But to keep your whistle wet, Brad Littlejohn has finished his rather extensive summaries of the lectures on his blog, The Sword and the Ploughshare.  There is also some more conversation going on over there, including responses to Brad's own reflections on what McCormack had to say.  I've posted a response of my own to some of Brad's concerns over there.

When all is said and done here at Via Crucis, I'll also have a few thoughts to share on the overall lecture series and McCormack's ambitious project.