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What is God? A Response to John Fensel (#5).
Like a serpent in a garden, John Fensel has posed an old question in new garb: “Do Moral Obligations really follow from God’s Existence?“ In 1504 words, his answer is “No.” Attempting to answer questions including, “What is obligation?” and “What is moral?”, he neglects the big question: “What is God?” The shorter Westminster Catechism replies, [...]
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A Peek at Religion in Dunning’s ‘Extremes’ and the Inescapability of Confession
Mahler, having spoken about his troubled relationship with Alma and about the discord in his work, must have felt reassured when Freud brought order to the emotional confusion by directing him to his childhood. Perhaps that restored his self-confidence as a man and a husband. In her autobiography, Alma wrote that Freud raised the subconscious [...]
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didache tuesday
One important document for understanding the early church is the Didache, and, to move closer to a full complement of weekly posts, we begin a sixteen-week series on the Didache. The Didache, also called The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, is a work which was written perhaps as early as 60 AD, and widely circulated [...]
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deuterocanonical friday: judith 9
Hebrew Thursday was a day late, and now Deuterocanonical Friday is a day late. I almost want to apologize, but live people trump blogging. Not that you aren’t living. You are, and I’m glad of it. Now we’re at Judith 9. In Judith 8, Judith showed up and in somewhat cryptic terms promised to deliver [...]
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hebrew thursday: genesis 1 – 2:3
Pointed text here, audio here and here. This project is inspired by John Hobbins’ ‘Summer Reading’ suggestion. Related Posts:deuterocanonical friday: judith 9i hate not simply fitting into simple categoriesAdam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 1Nicola Rossi’s “Generation of Locusts” Speech Now in EnglishWhat is God? A Response to John Fensel (#5).
Confederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Bible
It was John Hobbins’ posts that first made me aware of the idea of functional canonicity. That is, regardless of what a group says is their canon, more practically important is what they use as canonical. In this sense, we could say that the Apostles’ Creed is canonical for most Christians. We could say that [...]
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reading material
It is rare to find a blog that consistently rewards reading. It is rarer still to find a blog the comments of which consistently reward reading. And I have never before read a very long stretch of comments to a post on a controversial subject without getting the feeling that I’m wasting my time. But [...]
class outlines by john hobbins
John Hobbins has been teaching a class entitled ‘The Bible and Current Events’ in a series of 90-minute modules. He’s been good enough to make an outline of the classes available on his blog, including collections of his own thoughts, video clips including ‘I got tefillin‘, assigned texts, assigned blog entries, and even essay topics. [...]
john hobbins on the word ‘man’
John Hobbins asks questions about Lady Wisdom and how she relates to men and women. He closes with an important side note on language and gender: This is beside the point, but I note: “men” is gender-neutral in the gospel quotation. “Man” as opposed to “woman,” “God,” or “beast,” depending on the context; “men” as [...]
Nicola Rossi’s “Generation of Locusts” Speech Now in English