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Category Archives: The Church
The Fighting Shepherd
In the past I have commented on the manner in which our changing social concept of sonship has encouraged a dramatic shift in our understanding of key biblical concepts. Within this post I want to observe another example of a … Continue reading
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Very Rough and Rambling Jottings on the Church and Social Media
Having spent a considerable proportion of my life online, the nature and influence of online media upon our modes of thinking and relating are subjects upon which I have frequently reflected. Within this post I wanted to raise a few … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, The Church, The Sacraments, Theological, Worship
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Sex and Death on the Threshing Floor
A friend asked me yesterday about the significant of the threshing floor in Scripture. I briefly sketched a response to his enquiry, but thought that it would be good to fill out this response in the following post. Perhaps some … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Deuteronomy, NT, NT Theology, OT, OT Theology, Ruth, The Church, The Sacraments, Theological
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On Making a Prophet: Pentecost and the Church’s Mission, Part 5
And they were all filled with the Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. – Acts 2:4 The terminology of being ‘filled with the Spirit’ is found in the lxx, where it is … Continue reading
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On Making a Prophet: Pentecost and the Church’s Mission, Part 4
Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. – Acts 2:3 As a primal symbol fire possesses a superabundance of symbolic associations, rendering it difficult for us to discern the particular … Continue reading
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On Making a Prophet: Pentecost and the Church’s Mission, Part 3
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. – Acts 2:2 The context having been set in the previous verse, the events associated with … Continue reading
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The Psalms in Worship
Ben Myers has some wonderful thoughts on the place and importance of the Psalms in worship: I sometimes worry that our hymnbooks – where you have a more or less arbitrary selection of songs, arranged by various doctrinal and liturgical … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christian Experience, OT, Psalms, The Church, Theological, Worship
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The Hidden Functions of Religion
In The Sacraments: The Word of God at the Mercy of the Body (not the same book as I am currently summarizing), Louis-Marie Chauvet has a fascinating diagram illustrating some of the psychological and social advantages that people can seek … Continue reading
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Introversion and Why Evangelicalism is Doing It Wrong
Introversion In a recent interview for Scientific American, Susan Cain claims that American society is biased in favour of extroversion. Cataloguing some of the ways in which introverts can be marginalized and their skills underappreciated, she argues that this results … Continue reading
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‘Symbol and Sacrament’ Chapter 6: Scripture and Sacrament
Symbol and Sacrament Posts: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2:I, Chapter 2:II, Chapter 3, Chapter 4:I, Chapter 4:II, Chapter 5, Chapter 7 Having established a model for the structure of Christian identity in the previous chapter, Chauvet proceeds to explore the interrelationships of the various elements of the … Continue reading
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Alastair's Adversaria 