“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.’
Reading this Dorrian book on Barthian theology made me want to run out and buy ‘Epistle to the Romans’ but I see from Amazon that it is 450 pages or something, so it would probably
Later Christian theology: by ingesting body and blood of Christ we partake of his life, death, and most particularly his resurrection. The ritual is transformative, as is the rabbinic seder; the vehicle for that transformation
Quote from NYT article about nurses in Mississippi- Successive waves of illness and death have left them exhausted and numb; nearly one in five have left the profession over the past two years. And they
Luke Timothy Johnson wants us to read Paul in all his complexity “What advantage do we gain by possessing a Pauline theology that lies outside and above his writings?”Nijay K. Gupta interviews Luke Timothy Johnson November 3,
The story is a bit more complex. In the late 1800s (under their first president), Wheaton was rather progressive. The second president (son of the first) was a dispensationalist who reversed all of that progress