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EASTER 5A
May 18, 2014
- Bovon, François, "Beyond the Book of Acts: Stephen, the First Christian Martyr, Traditions Outside the New Testament Canon of Scripture,"Perspectives in Religious Studies, 2005.
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“Unlike today, the Hellenist Stephen aroused a great deal of curiosity in the minds of early Christian believers, and the literature produced about him during the late antique period is extensive. In addition to the Lukan narrative preserved in Acts 6-8, we can mention at least three different texts written in Greek: the martyrdom story (Passio); the story of the revelation of Stephen's relics to Lucían, a priest in the little town of Caphar Gamala (Revelatio); and the story of the translation of Stephen's relics from Jerusalem to Constantinople (Translatió) There are at least nine different recensions of the martyrdom and several different recensions of the Revelatio; the same can be said of the Translation.”
- Dozeman, Thomas B., "The Priestly Vocation,"Interpretation, 2005.
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“Biblical writers present a grand vision of the priestly vocation, in which the sacramental life of worship is translated into an ethical mission to the world. It is a vision in which the priestly vocation of the ordained in the sanctuary and the priestly vocation of the laity in the world work in concert to fulfill the divine vision of a transformed earth.”
- Hobbie, Peter H., "1 Peter 2:2-10, From Text to Sermon," Interpretation, 1993.
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“American Christians are familiar with the concepts of fellowship and personal sacrifice. The confusion between Christian community and American society makes them less aware that this priesthood works only to the benefit of the community within the spiritual house.”
- Bellah, Robert N., "At Home and Not at Home: Religious Pluralism and Religious Truth," The Christian Century, 1995.
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“I do not see how Christians can fail to confess— with all the qualifications I’ve stated— that there is salvation in no other name but Jesus.”
- Williamson, Lamar, "Many Rooms, One Way: Preaching John 14 in a Pluralistic Society,"Journal for Preachers, 2006.
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“Radical monotheism in theology often leads to radical exclusiveness in practice, whether it is Jewish, Christian, or Muslim. (Incidentally, Christian monotheism is not radical enough for Jewish and Muslim tastes.) In ancient Israel, exclusiveness served as a guard against idolatry, which is still a danger today. So long as Jesus' exclusiveness is directed against the real and present idolatries that beset American culture, John 14 will preach in Christian churches in a way that does not attack other faiths but does attack genuine threats to God's way, truth, and life.”
- Willimon, William H., "Pastors Who Won't Be Preachers: A Polemic against Homiletical Accommodation to the Culture of Contentment,"Journal for Preachers, 2006.
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“Today, when some layperson whines, ‘Why don't we have more great preachers,’ I tend to respond, ‘Because you ran off the good ones.’”
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