I was supposed to write a blog about the environment for Blog Action Day. I was going to write about the scientific reasons that I am currently not only a global warming skeptic, but a believer in the argument that we should not spend money and legislation trying to curb carbon emissions. Then I was going to follow it up with a theological argument for why it is important to take good care of the environment, proceeded by a brief run-down of the basic ways this might be able to be done.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Raw Theology, Blog Action Day, Misc.
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Labels: Journals, Raw (A)Theology News, Raw (A)Theology Proper
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
On the ecclesiological differences between the Latin and Eastern churches.
This guy Clark Carlton seems to know what he's talking about. Go here and listen to "3 cheers for Pope Benedict".
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Labels: Ecclesiology, Theology of the Kingdom
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Whatever you bind on earth shall having been bound in heaven... and vice versa.
A. T. Robertson, one of this century's leading Greek scholars, also comments on Matthew 16:19: "To `bind' in rabbinical language is to forbid, to `loose' is to permit. Peter would be like a rabbi who passes on many points. Rabbis of the school of Hillel `loosed' many things that the school of Schammai `bound.' The teaching of Jesus is the standard for Peter and for all preachers of Christ. Note the future perfect indicative..., a state of completion. All this assumes, of course, that Peter's use of the keys will be in accord with the teaching and mind of Christ."2 Dr. Robertson's comment about the use of the future perfect tense is important. If we were to translate the passage very literally (though awkwardly in English), it would read "...whatever you loose on earth shall having been loosed in heaven." This shows that the disciples were not unilaterally to decide a matter, thus binding "heaven" to their decision. It means that their decision, as Dr. Robertson suggests, will be in line with what already was God's mind on the issue.
-http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue1.htm
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Labels: Biblical Theology, Eschatology, Ethics
my money is on the Greeks.
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