About Me, Christian Boehm: I am very happily married to my beautiful wife, Stephanie. We currently reside in Columbia, SC--my wife's hometown. We attended school--Palm Beach Atlantic University--and met in West Palm Beach, FL, where we also lived for eight and a half years. There, I studied political science and secondary education. Around the beginning of my last year of college, I realized that God was calling me into the study of theology and ministry. So, I went off to seminary and graduated with a Master of Divinity degree (M.Div.) from Knox Theological Seminary, which is located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. I am not 100 percent sure where God will eventually lead me with this degree (right now I believe chaplaincy and a PhD), but I knew seminary was where I was supposed to be. Knox is a relatively conservative, Reformed seminary (from the Presbyterian tradition, but not a Presbyterian seminary). But as far as my own theology is concerned, since, after all, this is a theology blog, I consider myself an Anabaptist/Arminian/Wesleyan. However, one's theological journey can take several turns, and I do not consider my journey to be over. I hope this blog will continue this journey. Who knows where the road will end.
About This Blog: This is a place for my musings: musings about theology, culture, family, life, death, and everything in-between. Most of the time, this blog will cover various issues in theology, as well as how theology relates to current events. However, it will also cover other random issues (e.g. football). The purpose of this blog is not to get hits, comments, or viewers (but they are welcome). Instead, the main purpose is to help me (and maybe you) think through various issues through written word. I have found that thinking and learning happen when one writes, not when one simply becomes "the thinker." Nonetheless, I hope all of you that read this blog will interact with the posts--agree, disagree, challenge, or question. Whatever your opinions are concerning my thoughts, I hope this blog will help you in your own theological journeys.
And for those wondering about the blog title, it, Theological Commonplaces, comes from early Lutheran theologians, shortly after the Reformation started. For example, Philip Melanchthon's first work of what we would now call systematic theology is called the Loci Communes (commonplaces). It presents Christian doctrine by topical order, just as a systematic theology does the same (theology proper, creation, sin, Christ's person and work, etc.), as opposed to a commentary, for example, that may speak on various doctrines (as well as other issues) as they present themselves in a given book, but these discussions happen in the midst of a verse-by-verse order, not a topical order.
