Monthly Archives: December 2011

Marilynne Robinson on What Literature Owes the Bible

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

Thanks to Jason Goroncy for alerting me to this wonderful article by Marilynne Robinson, the author of Gilead. Literatures are self-referential by nature, and even when references to Scripture in contemporary fiction and poetry are no more than ornamental or rhetorical — indeed, … Continue reading →

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Hallelujah Chorus from Quinhagak, Alaska

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

Performed by Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat 5th Grade class in Quinhagak, Alaska (HT: Tim Challies)

Posted in Just for Fun, Music, Video | 2 Comments

Is Christmas stolen from the Pagans?

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

Image from Calamities of Nature Read a thorough debunking of this old chestnut here, on a pagan forum, of all places (the claims to which the writer is responding are in bold). First of all, based on a more careful … Continue reading →

Posted in On the web, Society | 10 Comments

Blogging Through Chauvet’s ‘Symbol and Sacrament’ – Introduction

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

First published in 1987 in French as Symbole et Sacrement: Un relecture sacramentelle de l’existence chrétienne, Louis-Marie Chauvet’s Symbol and Sacrament was one of the first thinkers to think through what the linguistic turn might mean for the area of … Continue reading →

Posted in Sacramental Theology, The Sacraments, Theological, Theology | 13 Comments

The Cancelled Question Mark

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

Great quotation from John Milbank: People who fondly imagine themselves the subjects of their ‘own’ choices entirely will, in reality, be the most manipulated subjects, and the most incapable of being influenced by goodness and beauty. This is why, in … Continue reading →

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Transferring Old Posts

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

Apologies, everyone. I just transferred posts from my old blog, but have discovered that a large number of them contain spam links. I am deleting those posts as we speak. Lord-willing, when this is all figured out, you should be … Continue reading →

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How We Forgot What Sonship Means

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

In last night’s post on the subject of relationships and intimacy in the modern world, I suggested that the modern form of society has led to a shift in our ways of perceiving relationships, which affects the way in which … Continue reading →

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Relationships and Intimacy in the Modern World

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

Following the Industrial Revolution, the household has been displaced as a centre of collaborative production and economic activity. Business has largely migrated away from the context of the home to the workplace. Family businesses and trades are less common nowadays: … Continue reading →

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Matt Colvin on Junia and Apostleship

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

Matt posts some thoughts in response to my earlier post on the subject of Junia as a female apostle in Romans 16:7. He has some helpful remarks on the grammatical case for and against Junia’s apostleship. Especially helpful is Ephraem … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, NT, Theology | 20 Comments

Shiny

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Alastair Roberts
Posted in My Reading | 4 Comments