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Textweek ATLAS September 20, 2015 Proper 20B Ordinary 25B Pentecost +17

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts: 

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Proper 20B / Ordinary 25B / Pentecost 17
September 20, 2015

 Mitchell, Glenn, "Living by the Word: Mark 9:30-37," The Christian Century, 2009.

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 “Scooping up a child requires letting go of whatever we’re holding.”

 Lundblad, Barbara K., "A Few More Hopeful Fanatics," The Christian Century, 1991.

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 “Who is being put in our midst today? Our graphs, surveys and workshops do not give the complete picture. Perhaps congregational and denominational strength will enable us to welcome and cherish those who will never help us be self-sustaining in the usual sense, but our longing for strength, success and solvency may also tempt us to turn our eyes away from the little ones, the disruptive, those who have no status. We have few rubrics for dealing with those who seem strange.”

 Koyama, Kosuke, "A Holy Mystery: Welcoming a Little Child," The Living Pulpit, 2003.
 
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 “When we welcome a little child, we are engaged in thanksgiving for all the gifts that make life precious. The welcoming of the child is the holy act that will bring "wholesomeness" (shalom) to humanity upon this earth. It is the ecumenical holy mystery to which the whole of humanity is invited.”

 O'Connor, Kathleen M., "Lamenting Back to Life," Interpretation, 2008.

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 “The confessions of Jeremiah are prayers for people mired in loss and play a major role in the theological and spiritual process of healing. They keep communication with God alive in the midst of destruction and despair.”

 Culpepper, R. Alan, "The Power of Words and the Tests of Two Wisdoms," Review and Expositor, 1986.

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 “Verse 16 pushes the argument one step further: if counterfeit wisdom is exposed by jealousy and selfish ambition, these in turn give rise to disorder and every kind of evil. Integrity, humility, and truthfulness are essential to harmony in the Christian community. Where these are destroyed by jealousy and ambition, the church will suffer the consequences in dissension and disunity.”

 

Textweek ATLAS September 13, 2015 Proper 19 Ordinary 24 Pentecost 16B

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts: 

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Proper 19B / Ordinary 24B / Pentecost 16
September 13, 2015

Mays, James L., "Mark 8:27 - 9:1," Interpretation, 1976.

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 “Self-denial does not mean denying one's self of something; a program of asceticism allows the self to win its own victory. It does not mean self-rejection, some subjective nihilism that is at root an evasion of the freedom to decide about life. Taking up one's cross is not a pious interpretation of the usual woes of mortality as ‘the cross we have to bear.’ All these notions can be thought and enacted apart from Jesus.” 

Mitchell, Glenn, "Living by the Word: Mark 8:27-38, James 3:1-2," The Christian Century, 2009.

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  “Coming to terms with suffering and death is key to human freedom.”

 Skinner, Matthew L., "Denying Self, Bearing a Cross, and Following Jesus: Unpacking the Imperatives of Mark 8:34," Word & World, 2003.

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 “As we journey soon into the new beginnings of post-Labor Day autumn, what will it mean to deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and follow Jesus? More, certainly, than giving up a few things; more than suffering as part of the human condition; more than moving forward on new paths—peering into autumns transitions, we belong to another.”

 Mack, Burton L., "Wisdom Myth and Mytho-logy: An Essay in Understanding a Theological Tradition," Interpretation, 1970.

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“The burning question of theodicy, raised by the cruel realities of the exile and its aftermath, drove the wisdom schools to creative theological work. By using the graphic language of wisdom mythology, the affirmation of Yahweh's lordship over the entire order of creation is made in such a way that the exile can now be seen to demand faith rather than resignation.”

• Ayayo, Karelynne Gerber, "Magical expectations and the two-stage healing of Mark 8," Bulletin for Biblical Research, 2014.
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"The purpose of this study is to investigate Mark's detailing of the two differ- ent means of healing employed by Jesus in his interaction with the blind man ofBethsaida (Mark 8:22-26).  "

• Henry, Christopher A., "Living by the Word Lectionary Reflection," The Christian Century, 2012.
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"Following Jesus as Messiah takes more than acceptance and assent."

 Peterson, Eugene, "Land of the Living," Ex Auditu, 2002.

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 “Spiritual formation cannot be done in a hurry; it cannot be forced into a schedule.”

• Whitaker, Robin, "Rebuke or recall?: rethinking the role of Peter in Mark's Gospel?" The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2013.
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"I have argued that the call of Peter punctuates Mark’s narrative three times: at his initial call in Galilee, at his recall to be a follower who suffers in chap. 8, and at his recall back to Galilee to begin again after the resurrection in 16:7. Hence, what has traditionally been called a “rebuke” of Peter would better be described as his “recall” to a more informed path o f discipleship."