Luke Timothy Johnson article in Commonweal, cited in Wikipedia article on supersessionism. bc.edu has other stuff from L. Johnson in search. Also Boston College? Supersessionism comes up again in this week’s reading. Much has been made
But I have grown in my appreciation of how important it is for the church to have a communal sense of identity, and how hard that is to come by without something like a creed.
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
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
As to systemic evil, I’m referring to something like the Guinea Worm parasite, or maybe a case where an earthquake happens in a poor area, and all of the dwellings cave in, crushing the residents.
Henry Ringar has a pagan religion, so not seeing any manifestation of supernatural reality when his mother died, he is further confirmed in his atheist position.
Cary – What Luther’s theology offers on this score is an account of the knowledge of God that does not depend on the notion of a power or faculty of intellectual vision, and that therefore
Remembering Gerhard Forde By Story Magazine Second Quarter 2005 Luther Seminary gives thanks for the witness and wisdom of Professor Emeritus Gerhard O. Forde, ’55, who died Aug. 9, 2005 after a long illness. For almost
And other quotes The adherents of the sects always utter some words from which their doubting spirit becomes manifest: ‘I hope I’m godly,’ ‘I hope I’m righteous.’ The Christian, on the other hand, says, ‘I