If I had an easy solution to the problem of zealotry, I wouldn’t need to write about it because an easy solution would create a situation were zealotry would not appear. The issues are complex, they involve human nature, and they involve the hopes of people. So, here are my suggestions, and I’m open to hear your suggestions as well. |inline
Romans 5:20 would have shocked the observant Jew of the 1st Century. “The law was added so that the trespass might increase.” Oh, really. That is why God gave the Torah? Here is where it becomes clear that the New Perspective has a little more to say. |inline
At some point in many of our conversations someone steps up to the plate and says “that’s not, or that is, how to read the Bible.” For years I have thought one of the most important sorts of books to write for Christians is a book on how to read the Bible, but there are very few professors who teach the whole Bible. Most are specialists — Old Testament or New Testament. Sure, lots of people teach us how to study the Bible, but this is not the point. I don’t mean procedural things like word studies, sentence diagramming, outlining books — but instead getting a grip on the big picture of the Bible. How do we read the Bible? How do we put it together? How do we relate to the Mosaic law? |inline
In chps. 8 and 9 of J. Frye’s book we encounter one central theme — that of teaching. What is it? I suggest that if we believed what J. Frye says about what teaching is most of us would adjust what we do — as parents, as teachers, as ministers, as simple conversationalists. |inline
In chps. 8 and 9 of J. Frye’s book we encounter one central theme — that of teaching. What is it? I suggest that if we believed what J. Frye says about what teaching is most of us would adjust what we do — as parents, as teachers, as ministers, as simple conversationalists. |inline
Two days ago I observed that there is an early and widespread belief in Mary’s perpetual virginity in the Church. Today I want to begin to begin looking more particularly at the debates and actual comments by the early theologians. Today’s post will begin the examination of the major biblical texts, but they will be more clear tomorrow. |inline
John Frye’s excellent, Jesus the Pastor, raises two major issues, the value and role of seminary education and the meaning of “pastoring.” Here’s the question John provoked for me: If you could make one change in a seminary education, what would it be? |inline
3.0 The Orthodoxy of Orthodoxy
3.1 Defining “Orthodoxy”
Perhaps the best place to begin is with a two-line, inelegant poem I wrote some time ago when I was reading Dante:
He who fashions the story,
assigns to each a glory. |inline
I’ve raved about Jim Martin enough on this Blogs of the Week that most of you probably visit him regularly and don’t need my encouragement. With a new appearance, Jim’s got another great set of posts and this one on listening to what we are saying is a great reminder. |inline
Kris and I began the day in Louisville, Kentucky, at Springdale Community Church, where I spoke about The DaVinci Code (and the bad version of the book in the new movie). My talk went a full hour, but the audience seemed to keep up. |inline
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