Friday, November 29, 2013

Myth defined

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Myth is therefore more rightly defined as a reflection on the human world (immediate to the author) “by describing or imaging creative analo...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

iOS 7.04 woes

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A while back I posted about my woes with iOS 7 and my iPad . Since then I have figured out a bit more of what's going on. As long as th...

It's in the mindset

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Myth, however, is a different way of thinking from that of science, similar to the way that the ancient notion of history is different from ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Myth

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From Xenophanes onward, then, the concept of myth has been misunderstood and misrepresented. The shift in thought favoring logic and reason ...
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Monday, November 25, 2013

It's a matter of perspective

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He [Averback] suggests that the underlying problem for us today is that we require an explanation for the presence of myth or legend in a hi...
Friday, November 22, 2013

What's the point?

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J. Glassner says that the accuracy of chronological material in Mesopotamian royal inscriptions “did not matter much” to the ancient histori...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

No atheists

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To begin, it is important to understand that the cognitive environment of the Near East was “thoroughly transcendent.” That is, deity and a ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Bridging the gap

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The Bible reader’s role is further complicated by the fact that he or she today is significantly removed from the author’s original, intende...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The power of preconceptions

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One final caveat: an interpreter’s preliminary generic conception will color all that is subsequently understood until, somehow, that concep...
Monday, November 18, 2013

The gospel

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Good thoughts from Scot McKnight  on the Sermon on the Mount: Some don’t see gospel in the Sermon on the Mount because they are looking ...

Myth? or History?

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[W]e should not confine ourselves to the traditional generic (form critical) categories myth, history, legend, folklore, and so on when spea...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Watch out!

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We're starting a new book today: Toward a Poetics of Genesis 1-11 Reading Genesis 4:17-22 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Background Bul...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

too cool

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We're at Debbie's parents right now, and Debbie's dad pointed this out to me today in the paper, the world's largest camera:...

True peace...

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It is built on the foundations of the apostles (Rev 21:14), not on the foundations of violence or greed, but on the gospel of the truth of G...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

A challenge

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John faithfully portrays a facet of God that many find distasteful, a facet that, though reflected throughout the Scriptures of both testame...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Wake up!

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John's proclamation of a God who opposes domination systems challenges hearers in every age to examine themselves and their practices le...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Blind mice

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The label “domination system” has come to be applied to systemic social arrangements that institutionalize unequal power relationships and t...
Friday, November 08, 2013

Good theology

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Interesting post I ran across today (not sure where I saw it) about a person who left the Anglican Communion to become Orthodox and then lef...
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Everyday Worship

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It is important to qualify this, however, by saying that a “worship service” is not the same as “worship.” A worship service fits into the r...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

Image of God?

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Fascinating idea about the image of God at Peter Leithart's blog Note especially the last paragraph: "Why don’t we spring from t...