Reblogged from Everyday Apocalypse: Can any child or mother doubt that Mary cherished a particular view of her son’s career? I think it is safe to say that the earliest theological interpretation of Jesus arose in the framework of his own mother’s faithful and loving expectations – before and after his birth. Elizabeth and Mary – [...]
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Mary the first theologian of the Incarnation (for Mothers Day)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Most High rules
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reblogged from Everyday Apocalypse: The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdoms of men (Dan 4:17) If God has a current view of history, is anything done from the side [...]
Disheveled
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Good Friday on April 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was up before 7:00 as usual to fix my wife’s breakfast. Normally it’s a hot shower right after, and then I fix my own breakfast and get on with reading/writing, after seeing her off to work. But this morning I suddenly felt like skipping the comfort of the shower. Not even a splash in [...]
Simon Peter – Man and myth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, Church, eschatology, evangelism, Gospel, New Testament, Simon Peter, theology on November 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Kevin at Diglotting put up a book give-away offer that has my interest: Peter – the Myth, the Man, and the Writings, by Fred Lapham (2004). The apostle Peter has already come up for criticism on this blog as one of my special NT problems. I currently judge Simon Peter as chiefly responsible for the wrong-headedness which introduced [...]
Library day – a layman’s insecurity over-ruled
Posted in Uncategorized on June 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been up to the seminary library more than once since the last report, and my check-out pile has changed a lot. It changes because my non-student borrowing limit (30 books) is always maxed, and I must return books in order to check-out new titles. Thursday I took a half-day vacation and got 90 minutes in [...]
Library Day – Back to the 50′s
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew, New Testament, Synoptic Gospels, synoptic problem on May 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Saturday I had a chance to get back to the seminary for a couple hours and got what I was looking for in New Testament criticism: Willi Marxsen, Mark The Evangelist (1956/ET1969) Gunther Bornkamm, et al, Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew (1956/ET 1963) Hans Conzelmann, The Theology of Luke (1953/ET1961) Erhardt Guttgemanns, Candid Questions Concerning [...]
Research Day
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday I took a vacation day in honor of mother Earth and visited my favorite seminary library. I count it a great good to live within 50 miles of such a fine theological school, and I am able to use it about twice a month (community patron privilege). OK, I used more fossil fuel getting to the [...]
Reading break
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gospel of John, Schleiermacher on April 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A 5-night camp in a primitive area gets a person away from workplace and Internet all right, but does not afford as much study time as you might think. With a night on the road in both directions, and the bulk of the five layover days given to the simple tasks of conducting life without [...]
Into the wilderness
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Beginning Palm Sunday, I’ll be away until Easter, on our seventh annual spring week in the desert. This year it happens to be Holy Week. Approaching Friday, the joshua trees will be a constant reminder of the cross. Not because they look like crosses (they don’t), but because there is a poetic sense in which the cross became [...]
