Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
Posts tagged Heart
The Horizontal and Vertical Meaning of the Christian Religion
Aug 19th
The church’s social teaching tells everyone that the Christian religion does not have a merely horizontal meaning, or a merely spiritualized meaning that overlooks the wretchedness that surrounds it. It is a looking at God, and from God at one’s neighbor as a brother or sister, and an awareness that “whatever you did to one of these, you did to me.”
Would that social movements knew this social teaching! They would not expose themselves to failures, to shortsightedness, to a nearsightedness that sees no more than temporal things, the structures of time. As long as one does not live a conversion in one’s heart, a teaching enlightened by faith to organize life according to the heart of God, all will be feeble, revolutionary, passing, violent.
None of these is Christian.
- Oscar Romero
Question of the Day: How much leeway should Seminary and Bible College Profs Get?
Apr 17th
Limits. Lines. Boundaries.
We need them. When they aren’t to our liking, we whine, scratch, demolish, prophesize. When they are to our liking, we defend, trumpet, repair, denounce.
The resignation of Walkte at RTS highlights the issue of theological boundaries within Christian Academic Institutions.
On the one hand, I think that Xian theologians and academics should be [...]
The Power of the Poet
Feb 14th
Conan shook his lion head. “No, Prospero, he’s beyond my reach. A great poet is greater than any king. His songs are mightier than my scepter; for he has near ripped the heart from my breast when he chose to sing for me. I shall die and be forgotten, but Rinaldo’s songs will live for [...]
Yara, Awaken!
Jan 23rd
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The life of man is not the life of Yag, nor is human death the death of Yag. Let me be free of this cage of broken, blind flesh, and I will once more be Yogah of Yag, morning-crowned and shining, with wings to fly, and feet to dance, and eyes to see, and [...]
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