BrueggeBlog 3: The Gospel of Plurality
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy If the stories of the Biblical text are the core of the testimony (as I discussed in BrueggeBlog 2), certain questions arise:…
Becoming Israel: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 20 October 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 20 October 2013 (Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 31:27-34 and Psalm 119:97-104 • Genesis 32:22-31 and Psalm 121 • 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 • Luke 18:1-8 When a passage in the Bible leaves us…
Christian Humanist Profiles, Episode #3: Martial Arts, Positive Psychology, and Virtue Ethics
When human beings want to tell stories, we often speak tales of the warrior. Whether one reads about Saul and David, the holy warlords of ancient Israel, or about Diomedes…
BrueggeBlog 2: God-Verbs
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy My own Brueggemann revolution started with grammar: the main way that Israel articulates the core testimony about YHWH is in the form…
The Tenth: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 13 October 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 13 October 2013 (Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 and Psalm 66:1-12 • 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c and Psalm 111 • 2 Timothy 2:8-15 • Luke 17:11-19 Sometimes Biblical passages just beg…
Christian Feminist Podcast is on Stitcher!
That’s right, listeners. The Christian Feminist Podcast is now available on Stitcher. All the cool kids are listening. Then they’re getting their phallocentric notions of “cool” subjected to radical philosophical…
BrueggeBlog 1: Back into the Biblical Theology Fray
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy There are all sorts of good things about defending one’s dissertation. I never have to correct a student again when he addresses…
What Habakkuk Saw: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings from 6 October 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 6 October 2013 (20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Lamentations 1:1-6 and Lamentations 3:19-26 or Psalm 137 • Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 and Psalm 37:1-9 • 2 Timothy 1:1-14 • Luke 17:5-10 Habakkuk is one of those short…
Holding the Truth: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 29 September 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 29 September 2013 (19th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 and Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 • Amos 6:1a, 4-7 and Psalm 146 • 1 Timothy 6:6-19 • Luke 16:19-31 As I often do, I’m…
In Praise of a Complex Woman Character
I tend to agree with a recent article by Stephanie McDougall about the superficiality of so many iterations of the “strong female character.” Too often such a figure is a…
What’s in a Space?
At a faculty-development last week at Emmanuel College, my friend and colleague Tracy Reynolds, said, in passing, that when he meets with students, he prefers to go somewhere other than…
Quiet but Never Silenced: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 22 September 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 22 September 2013 (18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 and Psalm 79:1-9 • Amos 8:4-7 and Psalm 113 • 1 Timothy 2:1-7 • Luke 16:1-13 Yes, it’s been a while since I wrote…
Stop the Platonist-Shaming!
It’s not for myself but for my students, and my students to come, that I must speak out. Questioning conventional wisdom in public is not something that makes a person…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 14: Language as Horizon of a Hermeneutical Ontology (439-491)
As Gadamer brings Truth and Method to its finish, the qualification and critique of other systems of aesthetics and hermeneutics comes to a close and the book’s own positive project…
Jesus, History, and Interpretation: A Response to Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan 272 pp. Random House. $27.00. I’ll say this up front: New Testament Studies is a hard discipline. Its difficulty comes…