by Daniel Trout
Chapter 4 in N. T. Wright’s Paul: In Fresh Perspective was so thought-provoking that I find it extremely difficult to simply notice a single passage separate from the greater context. The two sections I want to briefly connect here, though, are the “Jewish Critique of Pagan Empire” (section 3) and the end of [...]
Archive for March, 2006
Not Caesar, but Christ
Posted in Miscellaneous on March 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Sacerdotalism
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
by Uri Brito
Sacerdotalism essentially means that there is some inherent magical power in the stuff of the elements. This idea prevails in some sense in modern catholicism, but not in any way as the Medieval Church tended to propose. Protestants do not accept this idea for at least three reasons:
a) To assume any inherent magic in the [...]
A Contrast of Brian McLaren and Blaise Pascal
Posted in Culture on March 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
by Daniel Trout
The following comparison is based upon Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christian and Blaise Pascal’s Pensees. McLaren is a representative of the fast-growing, youth-oriented emergent church movement within contemporary American evangelicalism. The 17th century philosopher/apologist Pascal was a Roman Catholic with Jansenist inclinations who’s keen scientific mind and vigorous (though unfinished) defense [...]
A Short Critique of Virtue Ethics
Posted in Ethics/Law on March 8, 2006 | 2 Comments »
by Daniel Trout
Since reading Resident Aliens this semester for the Hauerwas class, I have become interested in his approach to virtue/narrative ethics, so I will now highlight a few pros and cons that have come to me from that work and the relevant essays in Readings in Christian Ethics.
The first point in favor of virtue [...]
Thoughts on N. T. Wright and the Paraousia
Posted in Miscellaneous on March 2, 2006 | 1 Comment »
by Daniel Trout
Wright’s brief analysis of Christ’s paraousia in chapter 3 of Paul is extremely insightful and loaded with implications. Since he properly recognizes the paraousia as the manifestation of Christ’s royal presence, as opposed to his arrival from a great distance, it seems probable that we should think of the Second Coming as [...]
