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Thinking Out Faith: October 2008
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Sunday, October 05, 2008. Benedictine Obedience Defined: Obedience Part II. In my previous post I attempted to give enough of a positive picture of obedience to at least get the idea a hearing. To continue recussitating the idea of obedience - to try to get it up on its own two feet so we can get it doing some real work - we need to flesh out a bit more of a definition. Grammatically the word is an intensification of the root word. Where authorit...
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Thinking Out Faith: Benedictine Authority Defined: Authority Part II
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Benedictine Authority Defined: Authority Part II. This is the second of a multi-installment 'series' on the idea of authority, both in general and as it relates specifically to theology and the Church. Call it, if you will, an attempt at conceptual rehabilitation. Eric Dean, a lay monastic associate writes that:. Posted by Kevin Spoelma. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Hardly the Last Word.
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Thinking Out Faith: Benedictine Obedience Defined: Obedience Part II
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Sunday, October 05, 2008. Benedictine Obedience Defined: Obedience Part II. In my previous post I attempted to give enough of a positive picture of obedience to at least get the idea a hearing. To continue recussitating the idea of obedience - to try to get it up on its own two feet so we can get it doing some real work - we need to flesh out a bit more of a definition. Grammatically the word is an intensification of the root word. Where authorit...
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Thinking Out Faith: September 2008
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Monday, September 22, 2008. Obedience and Harvest Customs: Obedience Part I. Here begins the first installment of my second attempt at a conceptual rehabilitation. I'm officially adopting concepts I find useful but that are currently orphaned by our culture including, largely, the church and trying to get them a fair hearing. I previously took a stab at the word 'authority,'. Purpaleanie and Other Permutations. Were my parents right or wrong.
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Thinking Out Faith: Patrick Henry College, Paradigm of the Evangelical Liberal Arts?
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Sunday, August 31, 2008. Patrick Henry College, Paradigm of the Evangelical Liberal Arts? I recently listened to a podcast. Of a booktalk by Hanna Rosin giving a talk (about a year ago) on her book,. God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America. Christians in order to contribute to the common good without merely seizing power and imposing as much theocracy as possible. And this is where Rosin's lack of the ability to theologica...
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Thinking Out Faith: Founding Fathers ... of Self-Improvement
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Wednesday, January 07, 2009. Founding Fathers . of Self-Improvement. It should be no surprise then to find elements of this nationally characteristic – self-involvement? That I could wear out of my mind every mean and base affectation,” Adams once vented to his diary. And “conquer my natural pride and conceit.”. Why was he so absent-minded, so lazy, so prone to daydreaming his life away? On July 21, 1756, he wrote:. Posted by Kevin Spoelma. Inter...
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Thinking Out Faith: October 2007
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. Scripture, Church, Service: Personal Disciplines III. Part of me feels that I need to know a certain amount more background, context or theory to be adequate to the task. But those are all just so many excuses. Maybe I just think it would be less enjoyable reading, that it would be just harder. But that’s not necessarily true either. There is no doubt this is something I need to change. Posted by Kevin Spoelma. How do...
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Thinking Out Faith: December 2007
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Sunday, December 30, 2007. Jesus and Dylan: Celebrity as Messiah and Vice Versa. I'm not usually in the position these days of writing on really current day-to-day events, the supposed forte of the blog medium. Well no more! Having seen a movie a few weeks back (on opening day I think! I'm prepared to launch this blog into the world of immediate cultural relevance. When a supposed disciple denounces the master as traitor it just shows the fact th...
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Thinking Out Faith: The Blasphemy Challenge and the Banality of Atheism in a Secular Society
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Tuesday, February 19, 2008. The Blasphemy Challenge and the Banality of Atheism in a Secular Society. In the bad old days of yore, as we are taught to call them, when religious beliefs were not mere matters of private opinion, one could get in real trouble for expressing the wrong beliefs. One could occasionally lose one's life! Now we just get mocked on the internet. Enter The Blasphemy Challenge. The Rational Response Squad sets itself up as bo...
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Thinking Out Faith: Obedience and Harvest Customs: Obedience Part I
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Incidental Writings on Books, Ideas, Theology and Culture. Monday, September 22, 2008. Obedience and Harvest Customs: Obedience Part I. Here begins the first installment of my second attempt at a conceptual rehabilitation. I'm officially adopting concepts I find useful but that are currently orphaned by our culture including, largely, the church and trying to get them a fair hearing. I previously took a stab at the word 'authority,'. Purpaleanie and Other Permutations. Were my parents right or wrong.