@BrianZahnd An ancient challenge, the Church-centered distortions and mutilations of 'Empire eyes'. Out of the woods and into a local bookstore today, I asked a question of the help. From vast shelves he gathered these for perusal. What, I wonder, will survive the separation of life and law?
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Gathered books on the front counter, Windows Booksellers, Eugene, OR. Gospel-Centered Hermaneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation, Graeme Goldsworthy The Aims of Jesus, Ben F. Meyer New Horizons in Hermaneutics, Anthony C. Thiselton The Messiah Developments in Earliest Judaism and Christianity, James H. Charlesworth (editor)
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Break a trend. “I am told that the Sermon on the Mount—the essence of Jesus’ teaching—is the least quoted Scripture in official Catholic Church documents.” @RichardRohrOFM Quote tweet: 3/ By all means let us celebrate genius, but let’s not conflate the excessive drive towards higher states of religious or scientific consciousness, or exultation in such exclusionary brilliance, with what is practically required to wed humanity, as a whole, to justice and peace.
@BrianZahnd end/ Gaza is home to the world's oldest Christian community. There, under our bombs, Christians relate a Gospel that America does not. Religious nationalism, they tell us, is a weaponization of the Bible, betraying severely distorted moral judgment. Repent and change, they say.
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Copy of tweet here: The Planetary Christ laying the smack down on the cursed exceptionalism of the Nordic Christ, in a statement issuing from the Holy Land, the Gospel's epicenter, the very birthplace of Christianity? It had to happen. Quote tweet: If I may interject? “The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - von Balthasar