I am lecturing in place of Dr. Tupper in the Systematic Theology class tomorrow at Wake Forest University’s Divinity School and his absence lined up with a lecture on sin. I think I am going to use this quote to point out the inevitability of sin for social beings such as ourselves and the relationship [...]

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So this is more of a confession, but today is the third day in a row I unintentionally got in a conversation only to find out it was actually an opportunity for me to informed on my deviance from ‘biblical’ truth. I have found I can talk to almost anyone about most things except [...]

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Parables, paradoxes, hyperboles, and extreme commandments all disorient only to reorient us. But what is reoriented in us? and in what direction? I would say that what is reoriented by these extreme sayings is less our will than imagination. Our will is our capacity to follow without hesitation that once-chosen way, to obey [...]

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In his ground-breaking study of God and Creation throughout the Hebrew scriptures Terence Fretheim makes an important insight on God’s relationality:
God is present and active in the world, enters into a relationship of integrity with the world, and both world and God are affected by that interaction. In this relationship, God has chosen not [...]

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