@ShaneClaiborne He also said, "I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity." Chesterton, likewise, penetrating: "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” A fresh start, then?
@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.