Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
Phunny Filosophy
While it’s no Theology Gone Funny, this tickled me a bit:
Notes: Scridb filterIn some cultures, a young man could not marry until he had taken his first head. However, a young man in the United States who tried to impress his girlfriend’s family by displaying his collection of shrunken heads would be quickly locked up and labeled mentally ill. [1]
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Monday Morning Reading
about 1 week ago - No comments
Here are a few interesting reads from this past week. There’s something for everyone.*
Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs | Atomic Robo vs. the X-Men in… “The Time Topic” – Self explanatory, meaning, if you don’t get it by the link title, you aren’t into comics or time travel and you should just go ahead and skip it.
On [...]
Bellah on Community and Individualism
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We find ourselves not independently of other people and institutions but through them. We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love, and learning. All of our activity goes on in relationships, groups, associations, and communities ordered by institutional structures and interpreted by cultural patterns of meaning…
We are part of a larger whole that we can neither forget nor imagine in our own image without paying a high price.
If we are not to have a self that hangs in the void, slowly twisting in the wind, these are issues we cannot ignore. – Robert Bellah
The Return to a Primitive Christianity is Impossible.
about 2 weeks ago - 2 comments
Having rejected the aid of the community of interpreters throughout the history of Christendom, we have not succeeded in returning to the primitive gospel; we have simply managed to plunge ourselves back to the biases of our own individual situations.
- Lints, Fabric of Theology, 93Scridb filter
Guilty fabergé eggs
about 1 month ago - 5 comments
I take it as a mark of godliness that my immediate Christian community is able to follow God’s command to be stewards of this Earth and we are beginning to be conscious of and find ways to evangelize without resorting to making asses out of ourselves and our Lord. And we do this while not merely inverting the fundamentalist/reformed paradigms. We still value just as much the seeking of Christ and faith in him for the acceptance of the forgiveness of sin. We still see the Bible as the only God-Stamped revelation. But, there is one thing we still lack…
The Vocabulary of the Trinity is the Vocabulary of Xianity
about 1 month ago - 2 comments
The Rublev Trinity Icon, a depiction of Abraham’s three visitors.
Western theologians and apologists often hold the belief that while the trinitarian theology might offer edificatory value to believers, for outsiders it is an unfortunate barrier to belief.
Trinitarian theology is then pushed aside and if ever approached, it is creeped upon via some non-trinitarian apologetic, such [...]
A Church Father on TULIP
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“The liberty of believing or not believing is placed in free choice. In Deuteronomy, it says, ‘Look! I have set before your face life and death, good and evil. Choose for yourself life, that you may live.’”
- Cyprian, 250 AD, 5.547Scridb filter
Weekend Goals:
about 3 months ago - No comments
THE LIST:
Prep Sunday School – Attributes of the Kingdom 1.
Teach an Introduction to Kingdom Attributes
Write History Paper – Summary and Critique of Edwards Piece (started, not completed)
Do back Hebrew Assignment
Organize MACC docs (while watching basketball)
Catch up on MACC grading (Tests, Reading Summaries)
Write SFCC lesson for next week (New Religious Movements) [...]
Notes on Terrorism
about 3 months ago - 2 comments
Right now I am doing some research on terrorism and Islam for my Lived Religions class. I really am ignorant of the scholarship. I always start with the Said videos. Right now I am going through some journal articles on terrorism. Here are my current sources and notes:
Incomplete and Unsurveyed Bibliography:
Andriolo, Karin. “Murder by Suicide: [...]
On the Worth of Early Syriac Christian Theology
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I have chosen these Syriac thinkers for several reasons. First, from a historical perspective, it is important to note that the early Christian movement spread in two directions, to the Greek and Latin West and to the Syriac-speaking East.
It is a little known fact that until the rise of Islam in the seventh and [...]
