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Proper 7B / Ordinary 11B / Pentecost +4
June 21, 2015
Beck, John A., "David and Goliath, a Story of Place: The Narrative-Geographical Shaping of 1 Samuel 17," Westminster Theological Journal, 2006.
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“…the geographical setting allows the reader to draw an unmistakable contrast between the characters of David and Saul. The economic and national security issues associated with an invasion of the Elah Valley by the Philistines opened the door to greatness, and it was David rather than Saul who walked through that door.”
Thompson, Kenneth, Jr., "Out of the Whirlwind: The Sense of Alienation in the Book of Job," Interpretation, 1960.
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EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials“…the condition of Job — the radical dislocation of consciousness deriving from the precarious situation in which he finds himself, is not wholly to be despised. For it is a condition in which one can grasp and be grasped by real meaning. The state of alienation is indeed that situation of the whirlwind out of which God may speak to a man [sic].”
Taylor, Barbara Brown, "On Not Being God," Review and Expositor, 2002.
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“Humankind's most basic theological problem, says Franciscan Richard Rohr, is that God is God and we are not.”
King, Michael A., "Storm System," The Christian Century, 2006.
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“Amid an almost endless list of hardships, calamities, beatings and persecutions, [Paul] celebrates the power of God. There turns out to be a kind of spiritual immune system for someone enduring storms for Christ, a system that turns ‘having nothing’ into ‘possessing everything.’”
Wink, Walter, "The Projector Is Running," The Christian Century, 1994.
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EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials“Mark adds the hilarious tag: ‘And they were utterly astounded, for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened’ (Mark 6:45-52). Again, they miss it, but each shot is higher, and each failure more sublime.”
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