Reformed and Charismatic types talk about emergent and demonstrate a predicament I am hoping gets more air when Phyllis Tickle’s new book comes out.  Namely that many of the traditional spheres of the church will be re-traditioning and while they will not be Emergent they are part of the great emergence here in the Western [...]

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The Spirit becomes the means by which Pannenberg connects the church and creation to the eschatological reality of the coming kingdom of God while preserving God’s lordship over his kingdom. The kingdom, church, and society are all social realities, but their distinctions have eschatological significance. Foundational for the entire discussion is the emphasis [...]

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In this week’s episode, I chat with San Antonio artist Paul Soupiset. I blogged here about getting the opportunity to meet Paul at Ruta Maya Coffeehouse back at the beginning of April. We’ve been keeping this one under our hats for a while and I’m really excited about exposing this little bit of homebrewed Christianity [...]

 

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“I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a good joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.  The strain of solemnity becomes unbearable, because it is unnatural.“  Whitehead then goes on to point out how the Athenians would show theatrical tragedies and satyrs in the same evening.
Later in [...]

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In as much as the life of all creation is dependent on the activity of the Spirit each moment and with each breath, so the presence of the eschatological future of creation is dependent on the soteriological function of the Spirit. The nature of the Spirit is always in relationship to its giving of [...]

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In an article entitled, ” Small Is the New Big in Progressive Politics” at the Huffington Post Rob McKay and Ori Brafman (The Starfish and the Spider) discuss new campaign tactics that progressives are seeking to employ.  What I found most interesting is that their prime example of what they are going for was the [...]

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Here is Elgin and I at the beach. I am sporting my new pipe which is a meerschaum hand-carved in the shape of a pirate’s head. The pirate could be taken as Black Beard, but despite sporting an eye patch, pipe, and skull marked pirate cap, his beard is white. So [...]

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“Never swallow anything whole. We live perforce by half-truths and get along fairly well as long as we do not mistake them for whole-truths, but when we do mistake them, they raise the devil with us.“
A conversation partner said, “That experience of yours as a young man, of seeing the Newtonian physics, which were [...]

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When Pannenberg turns to the soteriological work of the Spirit the dynamic nature of the Spirit’s relationship to creation and eschatology is revealed. Having previously established the priority of the immanent Trinity Pannenberg recognizes that it is these intra-trinitarian relationships that form the pattern of the Spirit’s action in creation.

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The connection between Pannenberg’s understanding of the Spirit and Eschatology is so strong I couldn’t untie the two into two separate series of posts, so they will be one longer series. Enjoy.
Eschatology is not a secondary doctrine for Pannenberg and as he argues at the end of his systematic, it is the central theme [...]

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