Tag: problems with Christianity
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Dismay
I listened to Beth Allison Barr’s conversation with Pete Enns and Jared Byas on The Bible for Normal People this morning, while I was making coffee and sorting out tax forms, because I read her book, and I was interested. Her ideas are not what produced the dismay. What caused me dismay was hearing, towards…
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Different Worlds
What if “the way things are” is not “the” way? What if “that’s just the way it is” does not have to be that way? What if there is another way? What if the people who claim to know how things are and must be and have decided that all things considered this is what’s…
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Forgiveness
Thinking about forgiveness this morning – why? Because we practiced “Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive” at choir practice on Wednesday? Because of trying to finish The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible for book group? For whatever reason, the thought unfolded something like this: Forgiveness – the act of forgiving another, the…
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Christian Doctrine (5)
Summary notes for Chapter 5, “Who is God? The Doctrine of the Trinity” in Shirley Guthrie, Jr. Christian Doctrine (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994) 70-96. Guthrie’s exposition of Christian doctrine really begins with the preliminary “who are we as theologians?” and then with revelation – so far, so Calvinist, and Barthian. Now he has…
Matters of Interpretation 