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New Perspective on Paul – Its Proponents
This is my term research paper for my Paul: In Context class. I was thinking about splitting this into multiple posts to break it up a bit, but then it would lose it’s flow and screw up all my footnoting, so here it is in its entirety. Hopefully I’ll get a grade on it within [...]
Continue reading...Hillel and Jesus with Yitzhak Buxbaum
13 October 2010
I just sat in on one of the most enlightening lectures I’ve ever had the privilege of attending. It was by a Jewish Magid, Yitzhak Buxbaum speaking on Hillel and Jesus. Hillel was a rabbi, and one of Jesus’ contemporary’s. He might even have been in the temple at the time when Jesus was 12 [...]
Continue reading...An Introduction to the Seven Catholic Sacraments
22 March 2010
Sacraments are a frequently misunderstood subject to Protestants and Catholics alike. According to the Canon Code of Law 840, sacraments are: …signs and means by which faith is expressed and strengthened, worship is rendered to God and the sanctification of human kind is effected, and they thus contribute in the highest degree to the establishment, [...]
Continue reading...A Different Way of Reading Scripture
11 February 2010
In my history class last week, we were studying the Benedictine Order, and I was struck by how they read scripture in Mass or Liturgies. When reading scripture aloud, there is no animation or expression in their voice. This is to avoid imposing their interpretation onto the listeners, as expression or animation would imply interpretation. [...]
Continue reading...The Great Emergence Book Review
1 February 2010
Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence:How Christianity is Changing and Why (Baker Publishing Group, 2008), 172pp.Reviewed by Christopher NeufeldJanuary 31, 2010 A major shift in North American Christianity is currently taking place, with the advent of the emergent or emerging church. In The Great Emergence, Tickle provides a history of this phenomenon, explaining the primary nature [...]
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10 December 2010
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