Lewis Ayres is a skeptic and critic of recent efforts to formulate a Trinitarian relational ontology. These often fail to specify the meanings of basic terms - analogy, relation, person, especially analogy. Zizioulas in particular makes a theological mistake by making “person” more . . . . Continue Reading »
Pickstock sees mimesis everywhere. There is a sort of imitation in the way a plant “returns inside itself to draw forth nutrients from the soil, to drink down the rain and transform these, with the sunlight’s energy, through photosynthesis.” Animals copy one another, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Judah cries out to God, wondering why Yahweh doesn’t respond to their prayers and fasts (Isaiah 58). Yahweh responds with the charge that during their fasts they oppress their workers and stir up strife (vv. 3b-4). The response echoes Exodus: “drive hard” is what the Egyptians do . . . . Continue Reading »
James Jordan discusses the biblical theology of the “office of woman in the church” at the Trinity House site here and here . . . . . Continue Reading »
In her argument for the primacy of “reology” over ontology ( res over esse ), or the transcendental character of res , Catherine Pickstock invokes the typical Thomist distinction between essence and existence ( Repetition and Identity: The Literary Agenda ). According to Thomas, these . . . . Continue Reading »
Rupert Sheldrake ( The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers , 110) summarizes the overlap between Whitehead’s philosophy and quantum physics: “There is no such thing as timeless matter. All physical objects are processes that have time within them, an . . . . Continue Reading »
Biola’s Fred Sanders offers an excellent, thoughful response - let me call it a “rebuke” - to my piece on the “The End of Protestantism.” Sanders understands my targets: “the kind of small-minded Protestant whose heroes are Luther and Calvin, and who has no other heroes in . . . . Continue Reading »
The goal of Joshua’s conquest of the land was to purge it of idols so that Yahweh’s house could be built. Temple-building was the end of the conquest. For the Chronicler, temple-building is the new form of conquest. David repeatedly exhorts Solomon to “be strong and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Economist reports on the findings of NASA’s Kepler telescope’s search for habitable planets: “The 833 new planets thus identified bring the total found by Kepler to 3,538. Technically these are only ‘candidate’ planets, whose presence is inferred by the tiny . . . . Continue Reading »
Rev. Rich Lusk pointed out in a sermon that Mark 3 follows the order of exodus: The Jews plot, Jesus crosses the sea, gathers 12 disciples on a mountain, and then enters a house. In context, the house is the tabernacle, where Jesus, the embodied glory of Yahweh, lives. That means that Jesus’ . . . . Continue Reading »
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