Posted in church and state, movies, quotes, tagged church and state, movies, stanley kubrick on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
In light of a few recent heated discussions on the blogs of Halden and Christian, I thought I’d call on the trusty Gunnery Sergeant Hartmant for some assistance in shedding light on some assumptions that few would want to fess up to, while continuing to reason on the basis of them. I just couldn’t resist [...]
Posted in J. Kameron Carter, quotes, theology on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
J. Kameron Carter has been an exciting discovery for me lately, and I’d like to pass on a cool little essay entitled “Whiteness as a False Reality: the Baptismal Identity of ‘the Now, but Not Yet,’” which explores some of the similarities between the film The Matrix and baptism.
[Afro-Christians'] entry into Christianity was a baptismal [...]
Posted in baptism, quotes, tagged baptism, church fathers, sacraments on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I just read St. Cyril of Jerusalem’s wonderful little treatise, Lectures on the Christian Sacraments, and thought I’d share a quote.
And each of you was asked, whether he believed in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and ye made that saving confession, and descended three times into [...]
Posted in capitalism, quotes, tagged capitalism, consumerism, culture of death, mccarraher on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What can Christians do to resist the dominant culture of fear, domination, death, greed, and so on? I threw out some of my Yoderian/Hauerwasian stock ideas in a comment on the last post. Here is Eugene McCarraher himself in a recent interview in The Other Journal.
TOJ: You have argued that our culture in North America [...]
Posted in Biblical Theology, quotes, tagged authority, barr, bible, canon, childs, Church, hauerwas, tradition on November 16, 2007 | No Comments »
The biblical scene itself…in both the Old and New Testaments, is a vivid and lively pattern of argument and controversy…. The sense which the reader derives from the Bible will depend not only on that which is positively stated by the Bible, but also on that with which the Bible is in conflict or, [...]
Posted in capitalism, quotes on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
How’s this for simulacrum?
Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men. Here Jew, Mohammedan and Christian deal with each other as though they were all of the same faith, and only [...]
Posted in quotes on October 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I couldn’t resist posting a couple of quotes from the absolutely fascinating article by Joshua Foer in this month’s National Geographic on memory. I’ve been a regular reader of the captions under the pictures in National Geographic since early childhood, but every now and then I read one of the articles that appear [...]
Posted in Michel Foucault, quotes, tagged Michel Foucault, sexuality on October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I just finished vol. 1 of The History of Sexuality - my first Foucault book, huzzah! A personal reflection: I am convinced of the good intentions of the furor over sexual purity that was prevalent in two of the three main discourses of my childhood and adolescence (home and church - definitely not public [...]
Posted in quotes, theology, tagged colin gunton, doctrine of god, douglas knight, modernity, theology on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Douglas Knight, who runs a very productive blog, has recently possed a stellar essay entitled “Father, Son and Holy Spirit – Colin Gunton and the doctrine of God”. It was really difficult trying to figure out what to quote, because the whole thing is just great. So here’s a bit, but do yourself [...]
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