A late-evening Moltmann Monday posts for those of you who remind me when I skip a week… :) This one’s from God in Creation p.287: Israel has given the nations two archetypal images of liberation: the exodus and the sabbath. The exodus from slavery into the land of liberty is…
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Happy Moltmann Monday! Today I’m sending you a little section from Jesus Christ for Today’s World which is one of Moltmann’s “broader audience” books (read: not academic theology). In this chapter he picks up an earlier strand of conversation he’s had with us about the false dichotomy of anxiety and…
I had lunch with a seminary friend yesterday, and at some point in the two hour conversation we got to talking about the general misunderstanding that the Gospel is fair. What I mean is that people assume and expect that our hard work will pay off in apparent results, and…
Thanks to Tony’s new book, I’m in a The Church in the Power of the Spirit mood today. Here’s an excerpt from Moltmann’s section on Jesus and friendship, which Tony rightly highlighted in his book as one of Moltmann’s more unique takes on Christology: The titles through which the…
Recently I’ve been reading McIntyre (and if you haven’t, read After Virtue as it should be on a very short list of must reads) and discussing it at Geek Squad each week. (As an aside, Geek Squad is exactly what it sounds like–a group of self-admitted geeks sitting around talking…