plymouthrock:
Final judgment and double-sense theory:
(This post was moved from the ‘Reading Romans eschatologically‘ thread.)
Andrew and Peter,
If we agree that the Scripture texts regarding the day of the Lord have an imminent,...
(29/04/2008 - 01:08 |
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SteveCornell:
College professors host viewing of Expelled:
Last Thursday evening, I saw Ben Stein’s documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed at one of our local Cinemas. After the film, four professors from Franklin and Marshal College graciously...
(29/04/2008 - 00:34 |
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Jacob:
The Shepherd's Power:
A set of lectures that Michel Foucault gave at the College de France during the late 1970s was recently published under the title, Security, Territory and Population. They trace out the genealogy...
(26/04/2008 - 21:36 |
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SteveCornell:
Frustrated by N. T. Wright:
I’ve been reading N. T. Wright’s, Surprised by Hope
and I’ve found myself frustrated by N. T. Wright. As one example, in
part 13 ‘Building for the Kingdom’, Wright engages rhetoric that...
(25/04/2008 - 13:26 |
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peter wilkinson:
Christ and Eschatology (5.):
Anyone reading these on-line articles might wonder how the author has time and leisure to put them together. If they show signs of haste in their composition - that is entirely accurate! They have...
(23/04/2008 - 19:48 |
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peter wilkinson:
Christ and Eschatology (4.):
In my previous post, I tried to show that a radical and absolute eschatological character was given to each stage of the entire history of Jesus - not just to part of it, or even to one event within...
(23/04/2008 - 11:21 |
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peter wilkinson:
Christ and Eschatology (3.):
Having painted a picture against which we can view the significance of eschatology in relation to Christ, I continue by asking what “the end” was which is pointed to in phrases such as “the end”, “...
(22/04/2008 - 22:31 |
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peter wilkinson:
Christ and Eschatology (2.):
In the previous post, I proposed that eschatology has developed two equal and opposite tendencies: either to consign an understanding of ‘the end times’ to events occurring in the far distant or yet...
(22/04/2008 - 15:57 |
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peter wilkinson:
Christ and Eschatology:
Eschatology is usually understood in theology to be the interpretation of things that happen at the end of time, and tends to occupy a separate section, somewhat detached from other theological...
(19/04/2008 - 14:25 |
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samlcarr:
Skepticism and hope:
(This was originally a comment attached to the ‘Why the historical Jesus matters‘ post.)
Why shouldn’t Jesus or Paul in principle have imagined a future event or
period when...
(12/04/2008 - 22:06 |
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sk1bum73:
OST - What is the current paradigm, or:
I’ve perused numerous postings. Detected a small universe of active contributors. Lots of verbiage (wordiage??). What is the true purpose of this website at this point? Is it, as it would...
(10/04/2008 - 21:22 |
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Andrew:
Shane Claiborne and the rich young ruler:
I don’t think I’m grossly misrepresenting the book if I say that Shane
Claiborne’s The Irresistible Revolution is basically an impassioned,
iconoclastic, mischievous challenge to...
(04/04/2008 - 11:47 |
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Woody Anderson:
The Resourceful-Reacting Statistician:
I have just gotten into Fretheim’s “The Suffering God”. I confess it’s like reading another language. But my question at this point is; if we take away God’s...
(01/04/2008 - 03:13 |
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Andrew:
Why the historical Jesus matters:
The question of whether by historically contextualizing the Gospel story we make
Jesus largely irrelevant to the church and the world today has been a recurrent
one - indeed, for me something of a...
(27/03/2008 - 13:18 |
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Andrew:
Being a disciple of Jesus is not enough:
I have voiced some reservations in a couple of recent posts about the
appropriateness of modelling the life and mission of the church on the form of
discipleship found in the Gospels (see ‘...
(24/03/2008 - 19:53 |
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peter wilkinson:
The Passion:
Tonight was the last instalment of four of BBC’s The Passion, showing on television over holy week. It was an unusual departure for the normally resolutely secular BBC, and much talked up by faith...
(23/03/2008 - 23:18 |
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Andrew:
Good Friday:
The suffering servant poem of Isaiah 52:13-53:12 is set in the middle of
prophecies about the restoration of oppressed and disgraced Israel. Immediately
preceding it is the announcement to Zion that...
(21/03/2008 - 18:50 |
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Andrew:
We have to go back, but not to square one:
I suggested in my review of Alan Hirsch's book The Forgotten Ways that,
in our search for a new paradigm to replace the now more or less defunct
Christendom worldview, the historical moment which we...
(18/03/2008 - 22:08 |
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Jacob:
“Proper” and “Rightly”: How Conservative Evangelicals Creatively Manage the Scriptures:
I’ve noticed that some conservative evangelicals often use “properly” and “rightly” to manage the possibilities of the Scriptures.
For instance, in the recent interview between Tony Jones...
(16/03/2008 - 21:58 |
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peter wilkinson:
Wandering from the forgotten ways:
(I have relocated this comment from the Alan Hirsch, ‘The Forgotten Ways, and the future of the church in Europe’ post because it gets too far away from Alan’s Apostolic Genius...
(14/03/2008 - 19:25 |
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Jacob:
How is faith in Jesus done? A Closer Look at the Interview between Tony Jones and John Chisham:
At first blush, asking how faith in Jesus is done might seem like an odd question to ask. Grammatically, it’s kind of odd. But it’s also odd because we often focus on what believers believe. How...
(14/03/2008 - 16:18 |
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Andrew:
Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways, and the future of the church in Europe:
(Since this is a rather long post, there is a PDF version that can be downloaded.)
The ebullient Alan Hirsch was in Portugal recently with the Christian Associates leadership
community,...
(13/03/2008 - 14:03 |
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Jacob:
Which “Context is King”?:
To put some Scriptural verse “in context” is widely accepted to mean that one should try and locate the words in their original historical settings. Recently, a short piece published at Precipice (“...
(11/03/2008 - 16:42 |
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peter wilkinson:
"Set upon a golden bough to sing - Of what is past, or passing, or to come." - Matthew 24:
A commentary on Matthew 24 - in which a future parousia of Jesus is confirmed, a false parousia is refuted, and the concept of overlapping ages introduced by unexpected developments in Jesus’s...
(11/03/2008 - 16:25 |
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DPMartin:
Is reality man’s master?:
(Universe)
All real or having an actual existence responds to occurrence of quality in real or having an actual existence.
All that is real responds to it’s relationship to that which is real.
(...
(05/03/2008 - 03:24 |
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DPMartin:
hey every one, new here.....:
hey every one, new here
May the Lord bless and be with you all.
If I may, I have been looking for a site with the spirit of collaboration in the development of theology that stands in today’s...
(04/03/2008 - 03:38 |
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Andrew:
Psalms 2 and 22 and the conversion of the whole world:
Richard Eric Gunby, while politely acknowledging that my heart seems to be in
the right place, has taken issue with a
statement that I made in the ‘NT Wright, mission, and the big red balloon...
(03/03/2008 - 13:10 |
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Andrew:
The story of Jesus and the place of the cross:
The discussion between Graham and Peter about the centrality or otherwise of
the cross starting here was running out of
space, so I will make this contribution a separate post. Peter’s view is...
(27/02/2008 - 17:37 |
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peter wilkinson:
Larry Norman 8 April 1947 - 24 February 2008:
I didn’t really know much about Larry Norman, but a friend was very keen on his music, collected the vinyl LPs, and dragged me along to a live concert at the Hammersmith Odeon one time. A versatile...
(26/02/2008 - 14:28 |
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Andrew:
Re: Mission available in the US:
Re: Mission: Biblical Mission for a Post-Biblical Church is finally available in the US from amazon.com and no doubt from other outlets. The book has been described as ‘breathtaking’ by...
(24/02/2008 - 23:29 |
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