Comments for physical life

Comment on Monday by mshedden

mshedden — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:23:02 +0000

I don’t mind going to “work.” It’s work in the sense of putting off myself and joining in what God is doing. So when I go the soup kitchen I am having to give up myself in return for “nothing.” Here I am thinking of Mark’s Gospel: All who want to come after me must say no to themselves, take up their cross, and follow me. All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me and because of the good news will save them.
I guess I am trying to be honest in saying that all of us sometimes struggle with taking up our cross and losing our lives, but when I do go, I find life and life abundantly. In some sense I save my life.

Comment on Monday by mahtso

mahtso — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:44:05 +0000

Why is it that you don’t want to go to work? What do you do to overcome that lack of desire?

Comment on Learning to say… by Steve

Steve — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:14:46 +0000

Nice to see you writing again…

Comment on “Jesus is Lord” by Taber's Truths Christian Blog

Taber's Truths Christian Blog — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:50:35 +0000

You know sometimes we strive to be so relevant to the world that we become no heavenly good.

Good Post!

Comment on “Jesus is Lord” by mshedden

mshedden — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:46:58 +0000

Thanks for the extra quotes Dr. Kerr. I haven’t read much MacKinnon but this makes me want to check him out more.
If you do check back in I’d be interested in the role the ascension plays in your theology and how that plays out in your insistence on the historicity of Jesus.
PS: My comment threading sucks even more than Halden’s old one did.

Comment on “Jesus is Lord” by Nate Kerr

Nate Kerr — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:29:50 +0000

Three more quotes to place alongside these, from Donald MacKinnon:

“In Christ’s name, a man may have to choose that which seems not of Christ; and in the cause of the knowledge of God, a man may have to turn his back on more than the silly respectabilities of so-called religious philosophy.” — “Philosophy and Christology,” Borderlands of Theology, 72.

“We need to imbue that which belongs to liturgical tradition with a deeply interrogative quality, compelling questioning of the very substance of the liturgy itself as we have received it. … We must learn all that is involved in refusing to say that the dominion of God over his world is manifested here but not there.” — “Parable and Sacrament,” Explorations in Theology, 179-80.

“If eucharistic worship is a strangely dangerous reality, it is so because when an effort is made to reckon with its many dimensions we are compelled to see that if it is the place of understanding, it is also the place where misunderstandings of many sorts may assume an obstinate permanence in the life of the spirit.” — “Parable and Sacrament,” 181.

Comment on “Jesus is Lord” by Halden

Halden — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:31:24 +0000

For sure, I totally get that. Seeing them side by side just spurred my thoughts.

Comment on “Jesus is Lord” by mshedden

mshedden — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:29:07 +0000

It’s on iTunes under the Duke Divinity page. I think this link will take you to it through your iTunes: http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/new.duke.edu.2718649575.02718649580.2702913654?i=1878366516

I should say I mainly posted them because I think they are both great quotes in and of themselves with or without bearing on the conversation of who is “right”.

Comment on “Jesus is Lord” by Halden

Halden — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:25:04 +0000

Do you have a link to the full interview? I’d be interested in reading it.

And yeah, sadly I comment on other people’s blogs far too little.

Comment on “Jesus is Lord” by mshedden

mshedden — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:19:34 +0000

Halden,
I did actually intend the post to show some congruence and some difference. In the context he was actually speaking of Eucharist, he says in reference to doing it weekly:
That won’t make us more faithful but at least God promised to kill us if we do it unworthily or at least make us sick. And I figure that that’s better than dying of boredom. If we return to Eucharistic celebration in a serious manner who knows what God would do with that.

So he using it in reference to Corinthians and how God does actually show up in those instance of the community of faith. I realize this might be exactly what you and Kerr aren’t interested in, so obviously the difference remains. And I don’t know enough about McCormack to imagine what he would say to Hauerwas here.
But thanks for the comment. I think is the first time you have commented here!