February 2010
27 posts
Recipes of Late
Maggiano’s Rigatoni D. An excellent rendition of a maggiano’s favorite. 4/5 stars. This is kind of difficult.
Roast Chicken. An amazing chicken. We don’t use the root vegetables but potatoes, onions, garlic, and carrots. It’s much easier than you would think. 5/5.
Pasta Carbonara. I love this recipe. It feels like your making something very gourmet. 5/5.
Death by Garlic. Too much garlic. It was...
January 2010
47 posts
One Sentence →
This fact that the Bible in both the Old Testament and the New does continually and with notable emphasis make chronological and topological statements, that it thus wishes in each instance to…
The Trinity as an Interpretation of Scripture →
I found Barth’s justification of the doctrine of the Trinity, against the argument that Trinitarian language is not explicitly the language of the Scriptures, to be very interesting:
Inaccurate…
“There a Church is gathered…” →
Interesting accounting of the “direction of the whole Bible”, vis a vis God’s humanity:
In the Bible revelation is always a history between God and certain men. Here one man is separated and…
The Word of God within the Doctrine of the Trinity →
As I approached the end of §7 I began to wonder how Barth would transition from his discussions of the nature of dogmatics and Word of God as the criterion of dogmatics, with all that entails for…
Recapping Baby-Vol. 1: CD §1-7 →
I’ll give my own responses to Shedden’s categories, and maybe add a few of my own in order to dodge the accusation that I’m boring or unoriginal.
Days: 80 (I’ll leave that the same, because I’m…
“Let me reiterate to underscore my point about credulity: Obama either strongly...”
– The Other Journal at Mars Hill Graduate School :: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: An Interview with Eugene McCarraher, Part One of Three by Chris Keller
“T.F. Torrance writes,
“We sinful human beings are trapped by our sin...”
– UNDONE: Mark 10: a theological Interpretation
Marilynn Robinson →
Michael Horton: One person pointed out a comment she heard from one of your talks, “Predestination puts self interest out of the equation and this seems to me to liberate one to act on motive…
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Marilynn Robinson
Michael Horton: One person pointed a comment she heard from one of your talks, “Predestination puts self interest out of the equation and this seems to me to liberate one to act on motive more consitent with Christ’s teaching.” And she went on to say of your statement, “A certain self forgetfulness is the point. Like Calvin, Robinson’s cause may be suggested by the word reverence. Her work brims with a deep reference for life for our own lives for others and finally for the mystery of God whom we cannot fully comprehend but whose unmerited grace towards us in the one fact that abides.” Is that fair?
Marilynn Robinson: I think that’s more than fair. I think that’s lovely. I think it’s true also that, you know, predestination as an idea and you could call it providence if you wanted to look at from another side, that’s something that’s all caught up with time. You know the idea that if time unfold sequentially predestination is one thing. You know because it seems to imply that you can’t never act in a way that isn’t predestined, although frankly that’s not the way that theologian understand it. But if time is something else and we only experience it sequentially, then obviously another kind of thing is being described. Something for which we don’t have a vocabulary. But if take it that you act not in your own interest, if you take it that you can put questions of heaven and hell basically out of account, and act as you do out of the desire to know God, which is what Calvin would say, then it is entirely another thing.
I.1 §1-7 →
I finished volume one tonight! We are now 1/30th of the way through!
It’s funny because Marilyn Robinson mentioned in an interview I was listening to that both Tillich and Niebuhr were the most…
Nerd Much. →
A current high point in my New Year. Eccentric Existence by David H. Kelsey. The remaining Yale School theologian. 1050 pages. Two Volumes. My Christmas money gone.
I am hopeless.
“CORNEL WEST: I think in our present moment, though, it seems to me, the major...”
– http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07032009/transcript1.html (via exploretruth)
30 Hour Famine →
Hello, whoever might happen to still read my blog. One of the activities that I am doing with the youth group this year is the 30 Hour Famine in partner with World Vision. The…
“Saltman: So what good is a religious text?
Hedges: That’s like asking, “What...”
– The Sun Magazine | Moral Combat
“So what does it all mean? If these are not political acts, are not to be...”
– More Will Campbell – Inhabitatio Dei
Eugene McCarraher at TOJ →
(via haldendoerge)
“It is finally not we who read the NT, but the NT that reads us. It calls us and...”
– Faith and Theology: Are the gospels reliable? A letter to a young inquirer
“The Kuyperian vision that I sketched out earlier presupposes that at the core of...”
– How my mind had changed by Nicholas Wolterstorff The Christian Century
“There is a line I got from grandmothers, both Jewish and Italian, it might be my...”
– Michael Pollan Offers 64 Ways to Eat Food - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
Thinking with Lindbeck →
Looking back at seminary it would be hard to name the thinker who had the most influence on me, but someone who must be named in the conversation is George Lindbeck. For instance, his thoughts…
“If our rising need for mental-health services does indeed spring from a...”
– The Americanization of Mental Illness - NYTimes.com
Barth: The Links →
Question: If someone were to compile all the mentions of Barth on the internet for a week would it be longer than the shortest volume of Church Dogmatics? I don’t venture to try but the man did…
Baptism and God’s Word →
I am behind Cabe in the readings (I had a busy holidays) but I came across this short piece on baptisms relation to God’s Word and wanted to share it.
Baptism was instituted for this reason, as…
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If the Church believes what it says it believes, then it is the place where the victory of Jesus Christ is not the last word to be heard and passed on but the first. For this reason and in this…
“All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down...”
– Epiphany : Theopolitical
That thing →
One of the things the church has found so much time to talk about, with so little to say, is human sexuality. I don’t care if we are talking to about liberal, mainline, or evangelical, Christians…
Illic et tunc becomes hic et nunc →
In my reading a while ago I stumbled across the realization that Barth’s claim that “Illic et tunc [There and then] becomes hic et nunc [here and now]” (e.g. I/1, §6.3, pp. 206) bears an…
“In Christ, then, none of us is a spectator to our salvation; we are all,...”
– Bruce Marshall @ Treasures in Heaven | First Things
“it is the dogma that is the drama – not beautiful phrases, nor comforting...”
– In Praise Of Great Female Theologians at Zoomtard
Mennonite Concerns →
Now that I am licensed to minister in MCUSA I feel like maybe now I can start taking some ownership in the term Mennonite. Typically I find myself torn between referring to myself as an…
“My wife has been studying the miracle of grace that permitted the small village...”
– Radner again @ The New Season: The Emerging Shape of Anglican Mission | The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc.
“For the consequence of this squandering of resources is simple unfaithfulness in...”
– Ephraim Radner @ The New Season: The Emerging Shape of Anglican Mission | The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc. I always enjoy Dr. Radner’s books and hits on many of the points I was unable to follow through the TEC.
“I agree with N.T. Wright, who recently wrote that this is clearly one of the...”
– Mouw’s Musings - The President’s Blog » A Vote for a Poetic Revision
Prefaces →
A while back T & T Clark posted on their blog that they were going to make all the preferences available for those who purchased the latest Barth set, as well as digital indexes for each…