There was a certain point in my thinking about evolution as an explanation for the mechanism of God’s creation that I reached the conclusion that there was not a necessary conflict between evolution and the
In Memoriam A.H.H. is a poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet”s Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage
These perceptions had to affect both the way they remembered the story of Jesus’ last days and the manner in which they told that story. Now, the death of Jesus appeared to them not as
So Barth acquired a new dramatic concept of Christianity: the point was not to explain a worldview to skeptical outsiders but to perform this cultic rhetoric. The priority of preaching to theology was absolute. –
Brueggemann forces us to unblinkingly confront the God actually presented in the Old Testament, not the God we wish was there via the colored glasses of our Western rationalistic theology. He shows us that the
“Negative capability,” he [Keats] wrote, “is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching out after fact and reason.” This means the ability to hold contrary or even
Aug 4, 2010 “Makers of the Modern Theological Mind: Karl Barth” ”Although Barth also speaks of the written and preached Word of God, they are its secondary forms. Both Scripture and proclamation become the Word
In its introduction to Isaiah, the NIV Study Bible says, “Many scholars today challenge the claim that Isaiah wrote the entire book that bears his name.” I have found similar comments in the NIV in
Reading The Limits of Power, Andrew J Bacevich, a book about America”s tendency to assume that it is able to tell the rest of the world how to be and how to run their governments.
‘It is not religious because of the quality of its faith,’ says Eliot, ‘but because of the quality of its doubt. Its faith is a poor thing, but its doubt is a very intense experience.’