Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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Bellah on Community and Individualism
Jul 15th
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
Guilty fabergé eggs
Jun 25th
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
Jun 21st
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
May 26th
“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, 5.547
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The Seven Stanzas of the Johannine Prologue
Mar 13th
The Word With God In the beginning was the Word And the Word was with God And the Word was God [...]
Phunny Filosophy
Mar 13th
While it’s no Theology Gone Funny, this tickled me a bit:
In 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 [...]
Do we have a duty to die?
Mar 7th
Even more so than sex, Death in the West is taboo.
We don’t talk about death.
We don’t discuss death.
We have convinced ourselves that we must stay alive at all costs.
(no matter the quality of life or thought to the effects upon others)
Death disjoints us. Scares us. Kills us.
Should it?
In a very humble and [...]
How Bizarre!
Feb 18th
“"Odd that a mercenary like Conan would accept less in payment than he could get," the new satrap commented. "I offered him a chest full of gold-enough to support him for life. But he would take only one small sack, together with the horse he found on the battlefield and his pick of arms and [...]
Hands To Break
Feb 17th
“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 hands [...]
Readings from This Semester:
Dec 20th
Total Pages: 3834
Total Pages Read: 3047
Total Reading Percentage: 79%
I actually did most of my reading this semester. My TRP is hindered mostly by two source books which contain a great many more pages than were assigned. The only book that I really skimped on was Redeeming the Routines. I just did not have the time/gumption [...]
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