I was talking with my dear dear atheist friend Monty the other day and we began talking about something that my other dear dear priest/poet/scholar friend Nathaniel Kidd came up with. I have the best friends ever! Nathaniel posits that there are basically two kinds of communities: communities of affirmation and communities of absolution. Communities […]
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, – Rom 3:23 NASB20 Sin is a Bad Word “Sin” is such an ugly archaic off-putting word. I notice that a lot of popular theologians, apologists in the true sense, try to use more friendly words for it – “low anthropology”, or […]
And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb 1:3 NASB95 Systematic theology is in many ways a fool’s […]
How I love Your Law! It is my meditation all the day. Psalm 119:97 NASB20 Blessed is the person who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,Nor stand in the path of sinners,Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the Law of the LORD,And on His Law he […]
Here’s another reflection from Byung-Chul Han’s book The Agony of Eros. Eros is a relationship to the Other situated beyond achievement, performance, and ability. Being able not to be able (Nicht-Können-Können) represents its negative counterpart. The negativity of otherness – that is, the atopia of the Other, which eludes all ability – is constitutive of […]
The Bare Life of the Slave I’ve been rereading a small but rich book called “The Agony of Eros” by Byung-Chul Han, and a certain passage jumped out at me so much that I wanted to share it here: Hegel’s dialectic of master and slave describes the battle for life and death. The party who […]
1 Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no [stately] form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be […]
15 Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become [the kingdom] of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped […]
39 “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; 40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. (Jhn 5:39-40 NASB) The Urgency of Theology On social media feeds and comment sections and such, I have […]
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope [fixed] on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. (1Jo […]