Month: January 2012
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New Year's Resolutions and Biblical Renewal
I stood in church and watched two baptisms on the first day of 2012. Just a few hours before, a couple of friends and I had raised glasses and toasted the new year. Then, there in the sanctuary, two heads were lowered and splashed in that old reenactment of Christ’s new life.
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Honest to God, a Voice from Heaven! Vanhoozer's Remythologizing Theology
Kevin J. Vanhoozer published a very important book in 2010, entitled Remythologizing Theology. It’s a long book (500 pages), and though Vanhoozer is a clear writer, his target audience here is people who have already read a lot of recent theology. It’s also a very expensive hardcover from Cambridge University Press. Good news on that…
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Finishing Up With "On This Day" In This Year
Since 2009 I’ve been noodling away at the “On This Day” essays here at Scriptorium Daily. I started them on a lark during Christmas break 2009, got around to describing my goals for the series sometime in March, and kept at it whenever time permitted. I wrote entries for about half the days of the…
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The Spirituality of the Second Coming
From the Dictionary of Christian Spirituality (pages 740-741), here is my attempt to describe the second coming from the point of view of spirituality, in 400 words. For New Year’s Day. When Christ ascended into the clouds to take his seat at the right hand of the Father, the angels of the ascension said, “This…