Tag Archives: jesus christ
Eden, the Temple, and birds: a look at Isaiah 31:5
In the biblical creation stories, God hovers or broods over the dark waters of chaos like a bird: Related Posts:Sing with the understanding also: swift and beautiful feet Adam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 2The Two Houses of Israel — Reconsidering Isaiah 8:14The Isaian Paradigm for Social Action — An Alternative to Macchiavelli and [...]
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on ‘surprised by hope’, by n t wright, part 1
The title of this work, following as it does ‘Simply Christian’, makes it pretty clear that Wright is aware of the way in which he is perceived as in some way walking about with the mantle of C. S. Lewis on his back. Why, they even choose to use a double initial followed by a [...]
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Sing with the understanding also: swift and beautiful feet
Today, in church, we sang ‘Take My Life‘, a wonderful little hymn. Given the biblical illiteracy of our day, I wondered whether one particular line might cause trouble: Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for thee. Praying for fast and pretty feet seems, well, shallow, if the biblical allusion is not [...]
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2 thessalonians 3 and the emerging christian movement
And by “emerging Christian movement,” I speak not of the “Emerging/Emergent Church” movement of today but rather the original Christian movement while it was first emerging, during the period of Paul’s letters. Related Posts:didache tuesdaySing with the understanding also: swift and beautiful feet assumptions as they currently standabout the biblethe single foundational truth of christianity
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posting through the deuterocanonicals: tobit 11
I feel as though I have nothing new to say about politics today. Sure, there’s no doubt that I could comment on a couple news stories, but you’d most likely already know what I’d have to say about them if you’ve read much here. So back to Tobit. Related Posts:posting through the deuterocanonicals: tobit 8posting [...]
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assumptions as they currently stand
In the past, I wrote this post on assumptions, presuppositions, basic beliefs, whatever you want to call them — the basic conceptual lenses I see the world through. And now it seems time for an update. 1) There is a God, and he is, more specifically, the kind of God the knowledge of whom has [...]
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a nail from jesus’ crucifixion?
Claude Marriotini reports it. The story goes thusly: The Knights Templars, a secretive religious association of the Middle Ages, are said to have had a fort. In that fort, a nail has recently been found. What is amazing about this is that the nail is believed to date from the 1st century A.D., the same [...]
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on biblical historicity
Here‘s an argument for Adam being a real historical figure. It goes at it not from an angle that focuses on the meaning of particular Hebrew or Greek words or phrases, but rather from the doctrine of the fall and its centrality to our understanding of who Jesus is and what he did for us. [...]
the health and wealth ungospel? and some thoughts on scripture
No matter how much we try, we can’t beat the Bible for dealing with issues in a way that fully honors the complexity of the real world while still whittling down the very essence of things into simplistic stories. It’s honestly amazing to me. And so today I will let a story Jesus told speak [...]
augsburg wednesday, article 3: the son of God