Category Archives: Theology, and Philosophy

Jesus’ Self Knowledge

        At what point did Jesus know who he was? In medieval and renaissance art we frequently see an infant, and sometimes newborn, Jesus standing erect, looking out of the painting at, and making the sign of … Continue reading

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A Summary of Jervell’s Perspective on Acts

Jacob Jervell’s work Luke and the People of God: A New Look at Luke-Acts has transformed studies of first century christianity and early jewish-christian relations. It informs and is informed by the new perspective on Paul as we continue trying to … Continue reading

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Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians in a Nutshell

In a nutshell 1 Corinthians is concerned with factionalism and paganism in the church of God at Corinth. The first, factionalism, is revealed as the focus of Chloe’s report in the first chapter and taken up in chapters one through four. After … Continue reading

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A Summary of the New Perspective on Romans

To understand the new view on Romans, and its bedfellow the new view on Paul, one must understand the old view (“of course it wasn’t called that at the time”). Prior to the work of Sanders, Dunn (who coined the … Continue reading

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God’s Love and God’s Hate

How to reconcile God’s Mercy and Compassion and Love and God’s Holiness and Justice and Hate is a difficult question we should not just gloss over. If words when used in relation to God flatly contradict the plain language understanding … Continue reading

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I am not a Calvinist for the same reason I am a Theist

In Christianity there are many views on the foreknowledge of God varieties of Reformed positions-Calvinism and Arminianism-and also the traditional Roman Catholic Augustinian view and Molinism a Roman Catholic compromise position. These can be sliced and diced many different ways but for me the question comes down to … Continue reading

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Postmodernism isn’t post modernism

I have long been bothered by the notion of “postmodernism”. Outside of architecture it does not have a coherent definition. Applied to literature, culture, and philosophy it doesn’t come after modernism, modernism and postmodernism are contemporaneous and difficult to separate. … Continue reading

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Communion Devotional 2013/03/10

Jesus tells us: “I am the resurrection and the life” John 11.25 Early Christians switched the day of worship not to the day before the Sabbath, Friday, when Jesus was crucified but to the day after, Sunday, when he rose … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas

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