Genesis 1:1:9-11: Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, . . . . Continue Reading »
Muir again: “Images . . . ate up pious resources that could better be spent in assisting the poor, whom Zwingli described as the true ‘image’ of God. The hope of reformers such as Zwingli was that the assets devoted to paying for religious images, endowing perpetual masses, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Karant-Nunn again, remarking on the hierarchy among the saints that was embodied in certain Protestant eucharistic practices: “The Lord’s Supper itself was not only administered within this ranks milieu but it also set apart, usually as a small group, those who communed. In Lutheran . . . . Continue Reading »
In her The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany , Susan Karant-Nunn argues that the Reformation churches ended with a more rigid hierarchy than the medieval church: “The fluid atmosphere inside the late medieval sanctuary, in which people milled about and set up . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew 26:26-29: And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new . . . . Continue Reading »
Revelation 4:9-11: Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: . . . . Continue Reading »
Song of Songs 2:4-5: He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Sustain me with cakes of raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am lovesick. We domesticate Jesus. He’s a baby in a manger, or a mild-mannered apostle of niceness. If spectacles had been invented in . . . . Continue Reading »
Blumenfeld again, quoting Wayne Meeks: “The household, especially in Romans times, develops into a vast and complex system of inner and outer connections of allegiances and obligation, a ‘network of relationships, both internal - kinship, clientela , subordination - and external: ties . . . . Continue Reading »
Isaiah 3:13-15: Yahweh stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people. Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of His people and His princes: For you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses. What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of . . . . Continue Reading »
Romans 6:3-4, do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life . . . . . . Continue Reading »
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