I have almost finished my final essay, which is a good thing. For once in my life, I am ahead of schedule. I might even get around to posting something significant in the next couple of days, perhaps some thoughts on Romans 4. Whilst living without my own computer enables me to get more reading done, it certainly cuts down on the quantity of writing that I do.

I have been reading a number of good books over the last few days though. I am over halfway through Foucault’s Pendulum, which I am greatly enjoying. I finished reading The Gospels for All Christians, edited by Richard Bauckham, a few days ago. It is a superb book, totally destroying the notion that each gospel was written for some clearly defined and isolated community. The book demonstrates the degree of interaction between churches in the apostolic church period. It also has a very interesting essay which seeks to argue that certain statements of John’s Gospel have readers of Mark’s Gospel in view.

I am also reading Kurt Stasiak’s Sacramental Theology, which is a pretty standard introduction (but not unhelpful) introduction to sacramental theology, written from a Catholic perspective. Having found his book Return to Grace extremely helpful I decided to try to get my hands on some more of his material. I have also started reading Radical Orthodoxy And the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, And Participation. It is good so far, although it clarifies certain areas where I can’t see eye to eye with Milbank. The last few days have been occupied with thinking and reading about such things as feminism and Christology’s relationship to monotheism. I might post some thoughts on the subject of feminist treatments of God sometime.

I am quite disappointed that our run of Test series victories is about to end.

Reminders to self: Read Jeff Meyers’ Job and Jesus and reread Stanley Hauerwas’ ‘Preaching As Though We Had Enemies’ [HT: Matthew Bartlett]