Resources by Q. Luo - Modern Reformation

Transhumanism, Theurgy, and the Genesis of a Cyberspace Utopia

If you have watched an episode of the Japanese anime Ghost in the shell or seen the Netflix sci-fiction Movie Altered Carbon, you may be familiar with the question whether ever-upgrading technologies will eventually bring humanity beyond their current natural limitations. But it is not just sci-fi works that are asking this question. Serious-minded scholars […]

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Wednesday, 08 June, 2022 by Q. Luo
Kazoh Kitamori’s Theology of the Pain of God: An Appraisal

In his 1973 trip to Tokyo, Jürgen Moltmann met with the Japanese theologian Kazoh Kitamori, whose book Theology of the Pain of God had been published in German. They communicated through translation from English to German, then to Japanese, and diagram-drawing their respective theology on a backboard. Moltmann concluded that Kitamori “was prepared to let […]

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Friday, 21 January, 2022 by Q. Luo

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The Meaning of “God”

Jan 22, 2021

Modernity, Pluralism, and Doubt Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Charles Taylor’s monumental A Secular Age was the simple observation that modern believers and unbelievers experience the world in much the same way. Whether raised by a homeschooling family who taught you to be a six-day creationist, or the child of an irreligious couple in San […]
Unhappily Married or Happily Divorced? The False Dilemma

Jan 25, 2021

Whatever we believe the Scriptures say about legitimate grounds for divorce, the assumption that marital dissolution should not be common among those who claim to follow Christ and Biblical teaching is reasonable. The pertinent passages recognized in the New Testament at most allow for divorce and remarriage only for egregious violations of the marital covenant […]
Biblical Nonconformity

Feb 19, 2021

Nonconformity is all the rage. Our culture applauds rebellion against social norms and encourage boldly standing apart. Sometimes this nonconformity is minor. It looks like fuchsia hair, living in a tiny house, eating only fruit and veggies. Other times nonconformity is something more extreme. The most immediate example is gender nonconformity. Biologically sexed males and […]
The Model for Christian Manhood: Introduction

Jun 16, 2021

When I used to lead women’s ministry at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, I helped organize our yearly Women’s Retreats. The men, however, never had Men’s Retreats. They had Men’s Advances. Retreats, as they saw it, were for sissies. Nevermind that the larger church adopted the concept of retreat from Jesus’s example in the Gospels. […]

Transhumanism, Theurgy, and the Genesis of a Cyberspace Utopia

Kazoh Kitamori’s Theology of the Pain of God: An Appraisal