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Hacked!
Apologies to anyone who saw a post with an explicit video posted on ATR. (Or ended up with it in their RSS feed.) It seems the blog was hacked somehow. I’m going to contact WP and see what steps I should take to address it. UPDATE: In the meantime, I’m going to change the blog’s…
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The great refusal: against the theology of glory
I recently started reading Douglas John Hall’s The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World, which is an application of the “theology of the cross” (see previous post) to the main topics of Christian theology. Hall begins with an introductory chapter that tries to identify just what the theology of the cross–as understood…
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On the theology of the cross
Canadian theologian Douglas John Hall is well known for his exposition and advocacy of a “theology of the cross”–that “thin tradition” (as he calls it) that was first named by Martin Luther, but which represents a minority report throughout Christian history. In short, it’s an anti-triumphalist ethos that serves to puncture the pretensions of the…
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Scandal of particularity
There were some good comments on the previous post, moving away to some extent from the value of John Dominic Crossan’s work in particular to the relevance of “historical Jesus” scholarship more broadly. Christopher‘s and Derek‘s comments in particular have got me thinking that there is a tension here. On the one hand, it’s true…
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Second thoughts on John Dominic Crossan
I had put J. D. Crossan in a kind of mental “bad liberal” box and so had mostly avoided reading him. (By which I mean I thought of him as someone whose project was strictly one of “debunking” traditional Christian claims.) But then I read Crossan and Marcus Borg’s The First Paul and liked it…
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The invisible poor
Good post here from Matt Yglesias. The “welfare reform” of the 90s has been widely hailed as a success for replacing welfare with work, but as Yglesias points out, this success is premised on a strong labor market, which we manifestly don’t have now. And yet you don’t hear anyone calling for us to re-think…
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This will either be really terrible or kind of awesome (possibly both)
This is news to me: 2010: Moby Dick is an upcoming film adaptation of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The film is an Asylum production, and stars Barry Bostwick as Captain Ahab. The film takes place in the modern day, and follows Dr. Michelle Herman (Renée O’Connor), who has recently joined a submarine…
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