Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Alexamenos worships God

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... the early church had the temerity to point to this event—the crucifixion of their leader—as the mighty act of God. What utter foolishnes...
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Monday, 25 January 2010

What did Jesus leave behind?

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In response to my post Why is Jesus taking so long? the following query was made: One question I have is what exactly Jesus came to accompl...
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Saturday, 23 January 2010

If the Messiah came, why do evil and death remain?

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That's a question Paul was forced to asked, being steeped in the Rabbinic theology of his day. Here is his answer, according to Barthol...
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Friday, 22 January 2010

Why is Jesus taking so long? (II)

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In my last post I made the potentially impious statement that I was "disappointed" with Jesus . The cause of my disappointment ha...
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Disappointment with Jesus (I)

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Around about six years ago I decided to read the New Testament as little as possible, focussing all my attention and energy on the Old. The ...
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Saturday, 18 July 2009

Piss Christ

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For some great thoughts on this piece of art, check out Jason Goroncy's post, Rethinking Serrano's 'Piss Christ' .
Monday, 16 March 2009

Bauckham as canonical interpreter?

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Here is a quote from New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham, which nicely parallels my comments concerning Seitz and the Old Testament in my...
Friday, 21 November 2008

An ex-Orthodox Jew posts on Jesus

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An ex-Orthodox Jew shares his thoughts over at Lubab No More . He obviously has a lot of respect for the guy, though given his reconstructio...
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Saturday, 11 October 2008

Jesus in the Old Testament?

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I've been posting recently on Christian appropriation of the Old Testament and the question of whether it is possible for Christians, g...
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Thursday, 9 October 2008

Is Christological interpretation OK?

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Josh McManaway of A New Testament Student has asked the question that, I think, most Christians do and should ask themselves at some point:...
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Friday, 19 September 2008

The awesomeness of Andrew Louth ...

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... consists, for me, in his ability to elucidate the canonical approach of Brevard Childs, and perhaps that of Karl Barth, as evidenced in ...
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Monday, 8 September 2008

Kähler on the "real" Jesus

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As an illustration of how a theological reading of the Old Testament, guided by the Spirit, can be more profound than a purely historical-cr...
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Saturday, 30 August 2008

Jesus and Jewish tradition

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Here's what Hermann Diem has to say, taken from my notes on his excellent Dogmatics (the continuity with Childs' canonical approach...
Saturday, 19 July 2008

Childs on Jesus in the Old Testament

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In our opinion, Jesus Christ is in the Old Testament to that degree in which true and obedient Israel took shape. He fulfilled by his obedie...
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Childs on Jesus and Isaiah 53

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Childs' Isaiah commentary can be a dense work. It's a distillate of everything he's written over his career, packed into the re...
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Wednesday, 9 July 2008

A Quote from the Pope: What has Jesus brought?

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My wife kindly bought me an interesting gift recently, Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus on CD (14 hours long!). Reactions to the book depend o...
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Saturday, 21 June 2008

Quote of the Day: Childs on the Third Quest for the Historical Jesus

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One of the great ironies of the so-called third quest for the historical Jesus, which is presently a fad in many academic circles, is that t...
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Saturday, 23 February 2008

A Remarkable Exchange of Roles

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Ernst Käsemann in his report on the problems of NT scholarship in Germany [*] points out a remarkable exchange of roles in the history of NT...