December 2010
38 posts
“Esperanza Spalding…suggests what may be called a jazz cadence for...”
– Esperanza’s Art and the Art of Theology
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…the fact emerges that all these possibilities of divine presence and action have a very definite centre, that is, they have their basis and their consummation, their meaning, their norm, and their…
“In the novel and in the Coens’ film it is always like that: things happen,...”
– Narrative and the Grace of God: The New ‘True Grit’ - NYTimes.com
“All of them—Walter, Patty, Joey, and Richard—are tainted by what they have...”
– ‘His Glory and His Curse’ by Charles Baxter | The New York Review of Books
“Someone once described Tibbels as “saving Sandtown,” which made him wince. God...”
– The Lives They Lived - 2010 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com#view=allan_tibbels#view=allan_tibbels
“The proper response to this is not to lapse into the rationalist whine about...”
– Fors Clavigera: The Politics of the (New) Unconscious
“Our whole life,” says Bonhoeffer, “is Advent” — a learning to wait and abide, to...”
– Intersections: Thoughts on Religion, Culture, and Politics
WatchPsalmist’s Cry: Scripts for Embracing Lament (by The House Studio)
“I discovered later, and I’m still discovering right up to this moment,...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Watch“Jesus Is A Liberal Democrat” | Storied Theology
Love in 1 John →
The tempting definition that “God is love” seems to have some possible support in 1 Jn. But it is a forced exegesis to cite this sentence apart from its context and without the interpretation that…
The loved become lovely because they are loved →
It is as [loved] that the loved of God becomes [lovely]. He does not become [loved] because he is [lovely]. Those who make definitions like this are not thinking of the cross of Christ, of the sin…
He is no other than He who does all this →
I try to take special note of the spots where Barth takes the thematic categories of his proposed 5 volume Church Dogmatics (Revelation, God, Creation, Reconciliation, Redemption) and weaves them…
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This is the ultimate context into which we are born: God’s hospitable generosity, creatively relating, to us, free of creatures in creating and attenively delighting in them in their otherness to…
“The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost24 percent of income, up...”
– Voices of 2010 | The Christian Century
“Good artists are people who can stick things together so that they stay stuck....”
– Tim Keel’s Blog: “Good Artists Are People Who…”
Barth, the epistemological coherentist →
“Strictly speaking, in dogmatics and in Church preaching every single statement is at once the basis and the content of all the rest.” (CD I/1, pp. 257)
“The” Lordship →
I fell slightly behind at the end of last week but reading through a small print section on pages 226-227 today I had a question about Barth and theological words. Writing about how the analogy and…
“Divinity is not overwhelming power, but is revealed precisely in self-emptying...”
– Breaking bread, making peace - ABC Religion & Ethics - Opinion
Watchsufjanstevensfallon.mp4 video by theaudiopervjr - Photobucket
