Jesus lived before his crucifixion in an imperfect society, a community of fear in which two men could never finally meet each other. He was confronted by two forms of ‘settling for’ this sort of society, two forms of idolatry: on the one hand the Roman colonial empire, on the other the Jewish religious leaders. […]
Against Method: Kosuke Koyama and Hans Frei 1. Kosuke Koyama How do they know where they are going before they start walking? How can they describe the changing scenery before they see it? … With so much preoccupation on methodology, does not theology become a scheduled journey instead of a journey full of surprises? from […]
Michael Root and Nicholas Lash on theologians as authors 1. Michael Root A curse of recent theology has been the cult of the virtuoso theologian, the creative mind who recasts the field, the Schleiermachers and Barths of the discipline, Promethean figures who blaze the path others are to follow. Much academic work in modern theology […]
John Webster on the perennial nature of the intellect’s depravity Thanks are owed to Resident Theology for flagging the following quote (HERE): [W]e would be unwise to think of the depravity of the intellect as a peculiarly modern occurrence, a collateral effect of the naturalization of our view of ourselves. It assumes peculiar modern forms, such as the […]
George Steiner on anti-Semitism as an expression of anti-theism I have throughout my work, and most explicitly in In Bluebeard’s Castle (1971), argued that it is not the accusation of deicide, of the alleged complicity of the Jews in the killing of Jesus of Nazareth, which underlies and sustains Western anti-Semitism. No doubt, Jew-hatred is […]
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