Being the curmudgeon I am, I’ve previously tried to argue that Jephthah may not have literally burned his daughter to death, but that the sacrifice was deferred and in a sense became the loss of progeny.¹ There’s no particular theological consequence to this, rather I simply find it to cohere well with the account as [...]
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The Existential Crisis of Barrenness in the Hebrew Bible
Posted in Hebrew Bible, tagged child sacrifice, jephthan, jon levenson, resurrection on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
John Hick on Credal Language
Posted in Hermeneutics, tagged christology, creeds, language on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
John Hick, The Metaphor of God Incarnate, second edition, page 45.
The metaphorical language of the Bible communicates naturally to all who inhabit or can imaginatively enter its universe of discourse. We still have fathers and sons and, less universally, kings and shepherds as part of our conceptual world; and with only a little effort of [...]
The Ascension in Luke’s Narrative
Posted in Gospels, New Testament, tagged acts, ascencion, gospel of luke, holy spirit, resurrection, theophany on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The bodily resurrection of Jesus—the reanimated, physical man—is an important part of New Testament theology, one beclouded by dogmatic accretion and in great need of disambiguation. The ascension seems to play right into this: Jesus, fully embodied, is lifted to the clouds. Yet I don’t think that bodiliness plays much of a role in early [...]
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