“We should love the Lord as we do our friends. Many a time I have seen people bring grief to God, without being bothered about it, and I have seen these very same people resort to every device, plan, pressure, plea from themselves and their friends, and every gift, simply to restore an old relationship… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012
Last week or so I posted on Facebook a question regarding whether or not one could simply be Christian apart from being rooted in a particular denomination/tradition. It seemed to me that the overwhelming response was, “yes”. The general consensus was that there was some form of “Mere Christianity” that existed apart from denominational and… [Read more…]
February 10, 2012
More evidence that we need a community in which to learn to be Christian. From Hauerwas: “What so often makes us liars is not what we do, but the justifications we offer for what we do. Our justifications become the way we try to defeat the contingencies of our lives by telling ourselves consoling stories… [Read more…]
February 1, 2012
Robert Jenson on revelation and the promise of the Eucharistic meal: “For the revelation to be revelation of God, it must pose the exclusive and exhaustive alternatives of faith and offense; it does so in that it comes as an object in the world; this object is Jesus of Nazareth and, in the situation of… [Read more…]
February 28, 2012
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