We’ll take a break from John Walton today and pick up the discussion next week. I had hoped to complete the series today, but I would like to discuss a few more of his concepts and need a bit of time to get my thoughts together. In a couple of weeks, we will blog throughContinue reading “Rachel Held Evans: An excerpt from “Searching for Sunday””
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Non-Order, Order, Disorder
I was thinking we might finish John Walton’s book today, but I had brain cramp trying to put a final post together, so I’ll save that for another day. In the meantime, I’d like to get the community’s input on one of Walton’s propositions that we haven’t discussed yet. Here we will be dealing with theologicalContinue reading “Non-Order, Order, Disorder”
Blogging through The Lost World of Adam and Eve (4)
Blogging through “The Lost World of Adam and Eve”, by John Walton • Post #4: Propositions 12-14 The next three propositions John Walton presents have to do with the setting of the “garden” in Eden and those who dwelt therein. Adam is assigned to be a priest in God’s sacred space, with Eve as his helper.Continue reading “Blogging through The Lost World of Adam and Eve (4)”
Blogging through The Lost World of Adam and Eve (3)
Blogging through “The Lost World of Adam and Eve”, by John Walton • Post #3: Propositions 7-11 Here are the next propositions John Walton makes regarding Adam and Eve and the account of Genesis 2-3: The second creation account can be viewed as a sequel to the creation account in Genesis 1 (not a recapitulation ofContinue reading “Blogging through The Lost World of Adam and Eve (3)”
Blogging through The Lost World of Adam and Eve (2)
Blogging through “The Lost World of Adam and Eve”, by John Walton • Post #2: Proposition 6 Now that the groundwork has been laid (see post one in this series), and before he moves into a specific consideration of the text in Genesis 2ff, John Walton takes up an important broader question in his sixthContinue reading “Blogging through The Lost World of Adam and Eve (2)”
Blogging through The Lost World of Adam and Eve (1)
Blogging through “The Lost World of Adam and Eve” • Propositions 1-5 I’d like to take some time during the near future to blog through John Walton’s important book, The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate. Those familiar with Walton’s earlier work know that he writes on thisContinue reading “Blogging through The Lost World of Adam and Eve (1)”
Christian Wiman on religious despair
Religious despair is often a defense against boredom and the daily grind of existence. Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that we are distant from God and then seek to make that distance into an intense experience. It is among the most difficult spiritual ailments to heal, because it is usually wholly illusory. ThereContinue reading “Christian Wiman on religious despair”
Emerging from Gethsemani: What I did and what I read
I spent Monday through Friday last week at one of my favorite places in the world: The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky. This was my third retreat at Gethsemani, and each of them has had a different purpose. I went in November 2011 in a state of exhaustion from a heavyContinue reading “Emerging from Gethsemani: What I did and what I read”
Easter Sunday 2015: “God’s future has arrived in the present” (N.T. Wright)
If Easter makes any sense at all, it makes sense within something much more like the classic Jewish worldview…: heaven and earth are neither the same thing, nor a long way removed from one another, but they overlap and interlock mysteriously in a number of ways; and the God who made both heaven and earthContinue reading “Easter Sunday 2015: “God’s future has arrived in the present” (N.T. Wright)”
Death Letter, part four: Hope and Healing
We live in a Good Friday world, but we are an Easter People. • • • This is our final installment of reflections on David W. Peters’ memoir, Death Letter: God, Sex, and War. Peters served as a battalion chaplain in Fort Hood, Texas from 2004-2007, which included a deployment to Iraq in 2006. After Iraq he alsoContinue reading “Death Letter, part four: Hope and Healing”
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