Showing posts with label Scot McKnight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scot McKnight. Show all posts
Friday, March 29, 2024

the way of the cross

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The Way of the Cross is not the Way of the Sword.—Scot McKnight, The Audacity of Peace , 97 <idle musing> An appropriate ending to t...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

The way of the lamb

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They [the early Christians] do this first in their small house church gatherings: they embody the Way of the Lamb and they resist as disside...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

A new understanding of violence

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But the establishment of the Kingdom of God in the person of Jesus reveals to us a new understanding of violence; the tables are turned. Whe...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Absorbing the violence

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I have come to the conclusion that the war texts express human evil at times. My conclusion comes from the Bible’s witness to the Way of the...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Christoformity

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Christoformity is a hermeneutic for real life decisions by real followers in real situations. Nor is it as simple as ‘What would Jesus do.’ ...
Friday, March 22, 2024

A consistent pacifistic christoform hermeneutic

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Bonhoeffer operated with one of the most consistently pacifistic christoform hermeneutics in the history of the church. But it was a hermeneu...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

But how?

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Christoformity, however, occurs not through valiant efforts or white-knuckling discipline but through the quiet surrender of participation i...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Love your enemies? You gotta be kidding! Nope, he wasn't…

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Sixth, a peace ethic converts enemies into neighbors . For some Israel’s scriptures led to a social love for one’s own and a social hatred f...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

True overcoming

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A peace ethic committed to loving all, including one’s enemies, does not respond to militaristic demands as others do. Instead of appealing ...
Monday, March 18, 2024

But is it Ṭov?

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A peace ethic asks what is tov in this situation, which at times transcends what many would perceive to be ‘just’ or ‘right’ or even (dare ...
Friday, March 15, 2024

On the margins

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Those who are ignored, suppressed, silenced, and excluded are not just seen by Jesus: he exalts them to center stage. Those who because of e...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

The way of suffering? Or the way of violence?

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What I learned from Sider is that Jesus here consciously and intentionally rejected the way of violence and power over others and chose the ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

What is a peace ethic?

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A peace ethic embodies the self-denial ethic of Jesus. A peace ethic volitionally and communally participates in the cruciform pattern of th...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

A peace ethic

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"A peace ethic embodies the self-denial ethic of Jesus. A peace ethic volitionally and communally participates in the cruciform pattern...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

When will we ever learn?

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From a Google books preview of Scot McKnight's Audacity of Peace (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2022), 8: International saviors save little...