This is good: Hitler on Wright and Piper
HT: Joel Willits
But I also really like what my students have prepared:
April 2014
Monthly Archive
Monday, 28 April 2014
Hitler on Theology
Posted by Ben C. Blackwell under Paul and His Interpreters, Technology, Theology | Tags: Hitler, Holy Spirit, John Piper, N.T. Wright, New Perspective |[3] Comments
Thursday, 24 April 2014
This is sure to be an interesting conference.
A friend of mine Edward Fudge is hosting a conference this summer, July 11-12, at the Lanier Theological Library. The title is “Rethinking Hell.” Edward Fudge, as you may know, has written the definitive book on hell as annihilation. Here is an announcement I received recently on it. If you are in or near Houston this summer, you should plan on attending. Go to the site http://www.rethinkinghell.com for more details.
Eleven weeks from now, registrants from countries on three or four continents arrive in Houston for the first ever Rethinking Hell Conference. Awaiting them will be a schedule that includes high academic prowess and ground-level practice, historical exhibits, a live podcast interview with audience involvement, screening of a feature movie, and never-before-seen excerpts from an international documentary film now in progress.
All this happens in a world-renowned venue, the Lanier Theological Library and Chapel, whose professional staff is accustomed…
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Friday, 18 April 2014
Good stuff here. Thanks Brian for the recommendations….
This week’s recommendations:
5. The Growth of Global Pentecostalism by Marc Cortez
4.a Jesus the Widower by James McGrath and b. Jesus’ Wife Fragment Latest from Mark Goodacre
3. Richard B. Hays by J. Ross Wagner
2. Boyarin on the Jewishness of High Christology by Nick Norelli
1. Fundamentalist Arguments Against Fundamentalism by Craig A. Evans
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Thursday, 17 April 2014
A Very Patristic Maundy Thursday (Cyril of Alexandria)
Posted by Ben C. Blackwell under GeneralLeave a Comment
Cyril is one of my favorites.
I grew up in a church setting in which “communion” was not observed regularly. The few times that it was practiced, we utilized a “fast-food” strategy – efficiently passing out individually packaged cups and crackers. For us, communion was one of many possible ways that we remembered the individual forgiveness which we received because of Jesus’ death.
I’ve since learned that communion is not simply one of many ways to worship Jesus but is instead a central way that believers encounter the transforming presence of Christ. One of my teachers regarding the Eucharist was the church father Cyril of Alexandra. Here are a few excerpts from Cyril’s commentary on Luke 22:17-22:
“Christ dwells in us, first, by the Holy Spirit, and we are His abode, according to that which was said of old by one of the holy prophets. ‘For I will dwell in them and lead them, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.’. . …
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Friday, 11 April 2014
The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife — Not a Forgery?!?!
Posted by JGoodrich under Academia, Ancient History, General NT, Gospels and Acts, Jesus and the Gospels, Judaism, New Testament[2] Comments
Various online news groups are reporting that the scientific studies conducted on the fragment of the so-called Gospel of Jesus’s Wife have shown it NOT to be a forgery! See, e.g., the article in he Boston Globe. See also the official Harvard Divinity School site. Can’t wait to hear the reactions of Watson, Gathercole, Goodacre, and others.
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Clement of Alexandria on the Gnostic Christian
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This is a great quote by Clement that hits most of his key ideas. I’m doing a comparative piece on Clement and Irenaeus, and the difference between the nature of the image of God is fundamental. Irenaeus places it in the union of the body plus soul, whereas Clement places the image in the soul alone (without vilifying the body):
He is the Gnostic, who is after the image and likeness of God, who imitates God as far as possible, deficient in none of the things which contribute to the likeness as far as compatible, practicing self-restraint and endurance, living righteously, reigning over the passions, bestowing of what he has as far as possible, and doing good both by word and deed. . . . For conformity with the image and likeness is not meant of the body (for it were wrong for what is mortal to be made like what is immortal), but in mind and reason, on which fitly the Lord impresses the seal of likeness, both in respect of doing good and of exercising rule. (Stromateis 2.19)
Friday, 4 April 2014
Good summary of Richard Hays’ visit to HBU…
Richard Hays, dean of Duke Divinity School and one of the top New Testament scholars in the world, was on the campus of HBU recently to give the A. O. Collins lectures in theology. He gave two lectures exploring the ways in which the New Testament evangelists read and incorporate Israel’s Scriptures into their Gospels. Hays is working on a book which will be published in the next year by Baylor University Press, so I won’t give away too much; I’ll only hint at certain things which hopefully will make the book something you want to read for yourselves.
Richard Hays, Dean of Duke Divinity School, Duke University
The title to his first talk was: “The Manger in Which Christ Lies”: Figural Readings of Israel’s Scriptures.” The title was taken from the introduction to one of Martin Luther’s books. Rather than seeing the Old Testament as somehow different from, indeed…
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