Saturday, April 21, 2012

Jesus as the scapegoat of Lev 16 an innovation

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"To our knowledge, no writer anterior to the [period of the] Reform utilized the symbolic imposition of sins on the scapegoat [at Lev 1...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."

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     Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The cost of discipleship I.4 ("Discipleship and the cross") (2nd rev. and unabridged edition, trans. R....
Saturday, April 7, 2012

A lovely little play on words

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"prayers are vainly cast upon the air unless hope [(spes)] be added, from which we quietly watch [(expectemus)] for God as from a watch...

One sings anyway

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"whereas Watts and Wesley and Cowper's Olney collaborator John Newton are uttering their hymns as it were from the pulpit, Cowper i...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Sources of the full text of the Nijmegen Declaration/Nijmegen Statement of 1968 (17 December 1968) entitled "Freedom for Theology"

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,  17 December 1968 Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 17 December 1968 New York times,  17 December 1968 [London] Tim...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Stealing from churches

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"in almost every case where [twentieth-century evangelical] theology has provided guidance for broader intellectual work, that theology...

In necessariis, parum ab Evangelicalismo

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"much of what is distinctive about American evangelicalism is not essential to Christianity."      Mark A. Noll, The scandal o...