To Woman

I wrote a nutshell of what the Bible is all about back here.  I’d like to expand on the notion of Woman though.
Woman is eschatology.  The man comes first, and the women comes second.  The man is the priest, but the woman is the sanctuary.  Wisdom is described as a woman, and She is described [...]

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Wrestling With God and With Man

Gen. 32:28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
The narrative of Jacob wrestling with God is one of the most challenging in all of Scripture. We are initially puzzled by how such a thing is even [...]

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A Post-Protestant Model

Perhaps the biggest difficulty facing a catholic Christian at the beginning of the third millennium is denominationalism. This isn’t simply a protestant model, though I’m certainly working from within that tradition. No, there are plenty of “Traditionalist Catholics” that drive an hour to find their Latin Mass. They pass through a few [...]

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On Not Being Anxious

The worst thing that can happen to one in his theological-spiritual journey is to give in to a feeling of urgency. There simply are no easy answers, and it is highly unlikely that you’ve found something which generations before have all completely missed.
This is not to say you can’t criticize your tradition. You [...]

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On the Fathers

I’ve come to believe that the authority of the church fathers in the popular mindset is often under-informed and thus misleading. Indeed most of the times that people claim they are bowing to the authority of tradition, it would be more precise to say that they have made their decision based on their favorite [...]

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Speaking of Hegel

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy writes:
If this is to some extent reminiscent of Hegel, it is because Hegel in turn developed his philosophy out of a study of Christian history. As an idealist, however, Hegel completely reversed the Christian meaning of concreteness; God is not found inside our minds or ideas; He speaks to us through the [...]

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We Carry the Fire

You want the 19th century (or the 4th for that matter)? Take it. It’s yours.
You want Old Princeton? No problem. It shouldn’t be hard to take.
But as for the new creation, we want now and tomorrow. We’ll wake up from our deep-sleep and see the surprises. We’ll see the very good.
That’s not possible you say? [...]

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Liturgy, Regimentation, and the AM

This semester I’m taking a seminar class on the first three chapters of Genesis. The goal is to thoroughly learn the text and come to a better understanding of what the Bible is trying to show us in these passages. Our professor has, unfortunately, bought into the framework interpretation of creation, and so [...]

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The Theology of the Suburbs

Suburban life is unreal because it shuns pain and conflict. A town or city includes all kinds of people; a suburb tends to contain only members of one income group, one race, one type of cultural background. They live elsewhere their most vital economic relations, the struggle for livelihood. They may invite [...]

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Trojan Horse

Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and violated her. His soul was strongly attracted to Dinah [...]

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