Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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Apocalyptic Asceticism – a Means to Resist
May 3rd
In this post, the nature of apocalypticsm in early Christianity is explored.
Marginalized groups are often apocalyptic;[1] they recognize that the present world is radically amiss and construct ways in which this can be fixed.[2] Often, there is a utopia that they look towards for a negation of the current woes.[3] Terms like apocalypticism, eschatology, protology, [...]
Of what use are legendary accounts?
Apr 29th
The purpose of this post series is to analyze the Acts of Thomas by looking for how the Thomasine community[1] constructed and negotiated their hidden transcript. Today I want to talk about the historical value of apocryphal narratives.
In this post series, it will be important to keep in mind the nature of our primary source, [...]
Do not Invert the Perversion
Apr 24th
No longer are there utopias in a postmodern society – the best we can hope for are heterotopias. [1] If we really buy into the idea of Heterotopias, then that needs to be reflected in our rhetoric. No longer can we speak of the one true way of doing things. Instead, we need to start talking [...]
Some Malformed Thoughts on Edwards and True Religion
Apr 20th
In my Church history class I was asked to read A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards and to give some commentary on it. The below are my first thoughts when I read the text. Incidentally, I have just taught over the Descartes-Locke-Hume-Kant debate over the nature of the self during the Enlightenment period, [...]
The Modern, Post-Enlightenment Mind
Apr 17th
The Modern, Post-Enlightenment mind assumes that knowledge is certain, objective, and good. It presupposes that the rational, dispassionate self can obtain such knowledge. It presupposes that the knowing self peers at the mechanistic world as a neutral observer armed with the scientific method.
The modern knower engages in the knowing process and believing that knowledge [...]
Notes on Terrorism
Apr 11th
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: [...]
Truth and Interpretation
Mar 26th
I am thinking of having my students first discern the truth of this comic panel from Calvin and Hobbes Complete Collection – 11 – It’s a Magical World:
Trying to think of specific questions to ask them that are designed to get them thinking critically about the nature of truth vs. the nature of interpretation [...]
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 [...]
Beware of Inverting the Fundamentalist Paradigm
Mar 13th
Lots of my new people are increasingly frustrated with fundamentalist foundationalism. In rejecting what they see as rigid and foolhardy approaches to Christianity, they seek out new ways of looking at the world, new sources of authority, trying as hard as they can to escape the pitfalls of their Spiritual Elders.
However, in running from [...]
Nietzsche’s View of the World
Feb 19th
“Nietzsche’s view, the world is made up of fragments that are totally different from one another.”[1]
Notes:
A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1657 [↩]Scridb filter
The Atheist’s Comfort
Feb 17th
“And so love, personal intimacy, a household: these seemed saving graces—for Claire and me, if for no one else. When the sun swelled and drowned the inner planets, or when our fragile world with all its weapons went under in its own fires, there would at least have been our simple joys for a little [...]
The Lion, Trapped on Shamu’s Plain
Feb 2nd
They trapped the Lion on Shamu’s plain;
They weighted his limbs with an iron chain;
They cried aloud in the trumpet-blast,
They cried, “The Lion is caged at last!”
Woe to the cities of river and plain
If ever the Lion stalks again!
- Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
What a fantastic lil poem, juxtaposing the jubilation that comes with [...]
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 [...]
My Statement of Faith
Dec 4th
Section I – Preamble
We hold the below to be our best understanding of the reality of God, God’s relation to creation, actions within history, and our relation to both the rest of creation and to God. We draw upon the following for our formulations: the Spirit of God speaking through the Scriptures, the wisdom of [...]
Moses and the Lamb
Mar 1st
Posted by Henry Imler in Texts
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“The Song of Moses has become in Revelation the Song of the Lamb, the "new song." Both songs praise God’s redemptive activity in the deliverance and liberation of the people of God.” [1]
Notes:
Revelation: Vision of a Just World (Proclamation Commentaries) (Elisabeth, Schussler Fiorenza) – Highlight Loc. 1433-34 [↩]Scridb filter