Jesus Creed
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We look today at the parable of the mustard seed and we are looking at Klyne Snodgrass’ new big book on parables: Stories with Intent. First, a greeting to Klyne … in the old days! 8) |inline Read more
Thomas Oden, in his enthusiasm for the unity of the faith in Africa — both North and sub Saharan, got me to thinking the other day about what color Augustine was. We can’t be sure, but the ethnic judgments made about Augustine are often shaped by bias. Was he Berber? Probably. So, since Oden’s quest in How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind is to engage scholars in Africa and in Europe and in the USA to explore the nature of... Read more
The best blog post I have ever read was by Dawn Husnick. I link to it here because the 25th chp of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed tells her story all over again. Please read the story. If this isn’t what the Jesus Creed is about, I don’t know what is. Read more
One of our regular commenters, Bob Smallman, was a classmate of mine when we were seminary students and this blog reunited us. Bob has a brother who pastored for 40 years and is now teaching students about evangelism. Stephen Smallman has a book I like. It is called Spiritual Birthline. Maybe I can put it like this: Kevin Vanhoozer gave us the image of “drama” for understanding doctrine and Stephen Smallman gives us the analogy of a birthline and lifeline... Read more
A case can be made, and in fact has been made, that the Christian faith most Christians profess today — its creedal affirmations — comes from Africa. From one of two major locations in Africa: Alexandria (Egypt) and Carthage (the Maghreb). Thomas Oden, in his new book, How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind, argues this and many more things in his attempt to resurrect awareness of the significance of Africa in shaping Christian theology. You can say it all comes... Read more
As we look forward to Pentecost, to the Day when God’s Spirit filled that little bundle of followers of Jesus with the Spirit and gave them the “power to”, we are led to see that at the core of that community is a virtue, the virtue of loving the other as oneself. So, in chp 24 of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed I turn to the brother of Jesus, James, who rather surprisingly uses his memory to nurture love.... Read more
The major contention of Darrell Cosden is that what we do — our work — is being redeemed and will be finally redeemed (saved) and will figure into Eternity, the Eternal City, the new heavens and the new earth. So, the 3d chp of The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work is his attempt to justify this theory by showing that the Bible’s sense of redemption is physical and earthly. |inline Read more
Dan de Roulet now finishes up with an insightful interpretation of this story, and I have to say … wow, I didn’t see most of this at work; if I did, it was so inchoate I needed to see it like this to notice it. So, thanks Dan. Here’s Dan’s post: Last time I asked about how readers are seeing the end of the story. |inline Read more
Paul didn’t quote the Jesus Creed just once; I believe that he not only recited it along with Shema daily but also taught it as a foundational principle for Christian living. So, in chp 23 of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed I look at another instance of Paul quoting Jesus Creed — the second half again — and his reflection can lead us to prepare for Pentecost. |inline Read more
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