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Never trust anyone under 30
Young people can’t be bothered to vote; Republicans win big as a result.
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Companions on the way
I meant to link earlier to Jeremy’s helpful post on Elizabeth Johnson’s book on the saints, Friends of God and Prophets. Johnson argues for a reformed, “companion” model of the communion of saints, as contrasted with the more traditional “patronage” model. According to Johnson (per Jeremy’s summary; I haven’t read the book), just this kind…
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Two-party state
I can’t help but recall that, in the last ten years, we’ve been confidently informed by partisans and pundits of both the “permanent Republcan majority” and the “new Democratic majority” and the supposed relegation of the G.O.P. to a “rump party.” Both claims have been falsified in pretty short periods of time. Can we now…
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NASA’s climate change evidence page
http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ A very handy summary of the evidence for climate change. Not that it will change the minds of hardened deniers. (Particularly since we all know that the crypto-Islamic/Kenyan anti-colonialist Obama administration has turned NASA into a Muslim outreach enterprise.)
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A better hope
In continuing to circle around the question of eschatology and look at it from different angles, I went back to Clark Williamson’s Way of Blessing, Way of Life. I wrote a short post on his eschatology here, but I thought it might be worth looking at it more in-depth. This is partly because I think…
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For Reformation day
“A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none, a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to every one. “It is clear then that to a Christian man his faith suffices for everything, and that he has no need of works for justification. But if…
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Jesus and the end: what if he was “wrong”?
In my post on Marcus Borg’s view of Jesus and eschatology, I asserted that if Jesus did expect an imminent supernatural in-breaking of some sort, then he was wrong, a conclusion that would disconcert many Christians. This might have been too categorical of a statement. In his book The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus,…
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Whose Jesus? Which eschatology?
(With apologies to Alasdair MacIntyre.) I’m still reading Marcus Borg’s Jesus. In the scholarly arena, Borg is probably best known as a proponent of the “non-eschatological” or “non-apocalyptic” Jesus, and he addresses this controversy in chapter 9 of this book. In Jesus, Borg offers a refinement of terminology. Instead of “non-eschatological” or “non-apocalyptic,” he now…
