June 2011
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“I am a thing that thinks: that is, a thing that doubts, affirms, denies,...”
– Descartes
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Nothing in this world is, because everything is always in a state of becoming something else.
—Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind
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The following text is what I have selected for my exegetical paper. We are to select a text that we can wrestle with until it blesses us. I have always been fascinated with the apparent gray areas of the Bible. Here, the midwives are told to kill, but instead they lie. Both of which we are instructed not to do. However, it appears that as a result of their lying, God blesses them. This occurs in...
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The Rabbit Room →
I came across the Rabbit Room earlier today when looking for a specific story I had read elsewhere, and wanted to share with a friend. Before closing out of the tab, I decided to take a look around on the site. Google has out done itself—I love stumbling across a great website. Check it out. Be sure to read the “about” page first before going visiting the homepage.
The Rabbit Room...
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“If the God you believe in as an idea doesn’t start showing up in what happens to you in your own life, you have as much cause for concern as if the God you don’t believe in as an idea does start showing up.
It is absolutely crucial, therefore, to keep in constant touch with what is going on in your own life’s story and to pay close attention to what is going on in the stories of others’ lives....
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On Revitalizing the Language of Truth:
This is what we’re currently discussing in my theology class. In following are a few quotes that resonated with me:
“Christian poets must bring the Spirit into flesh just as the incarnation is Spirit becoming flesh. And this is what poets can do for theologians. In fact, theologians need poetry just as much as Christ needed to speak in parables.” —Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
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“If we lose our language, we lose our freedom.”
– Madeline L’Engle
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On Beauty and the Problem of Evil:
“It is one thing to claim that God can and does bring good out of evil, that sin and death are constrained by diving providence to serve God’s transcendent purpose; it is quite another thing to imagine that in the eschaton we will look back on some event of mindless cruelty in history and say: ‘Now, in the total scheme of things, I can see why that had to...
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“When God becomes man in Jesus of Nazareth, he not only enters the finitude of man, but in his death on the cross also enters into the situation of man’s godforsakenness. In Jesus he does not die the natural death of a finite being, but the violent death of the criminal on the cross, the death of complete abandonment by God. The suffering in the passion of Jesus is abandonment,...
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“But when Christian theologians do not accept what Jesus suffered from God, they are like Job’s friends, not like Job himself. The contradiction between the Sonship of God and forsakenness by God is a contradiction that cannot be resolved, either by reducing the divine Sonship or by failing to take the forsakenness seriously… God-forsakenness is the final experience of God...
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10 June 2011
Throw a party because Steven is off work today.
Breakfast/french press
Shower
Run errands
Clean apartment/wash dishes
Work on research paper
Dinner: grilled bbq chicken, corn on the cob, broccoli and cauliflower
Agnes Obel @ the Fremont Abbey tonight!
We slept in this morning, unintentionally. So we’ll see how much we actually get accomplished before the show tonight....
“I think something interesting happens to language when you break it up so that...”
– Brian Eno on spoken word
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