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Lent 2
February 25, 2018
- Bautch, Richard J., "An Appraisal of Abraham's Role in Postexilic Covenants," Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2009.
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“God's power manifest in the imagery of creation is another attested dimension of the Mosaic covenant as it was developed in the postexilic period.”
- Wirzba, Norman, "The Dark Night of the Soil: An Agrarian Approach to Mystical Life," Christianity and Literature, 2007.
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“If a mystical path is one in which the traveler learns to submit to God, then it is the virtue of agrarian life to show us that our submission is authentic only as we commit ourselves to the health and vitality of creation, for it is here that God s ways, however mysteriously, are being worked out. It is here, in the soil beneath our feet and among countless created neighborhoods rather than in some far away celestial place, that God meets us in work and grace that exceeds our comprehension and our wrongdoing.”
Burnett, Joel S., "Where Is God? Divine Absence in Israelite Religion," Perspectives in Religious Studies, 2006.
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“This review of religious expressions from as early as the first half of the second millennium indicates that divine presence and absence were conceived and perceived in Israelite and West Semitic religion in terms of life's blessings and difficulties, respectively. Thus the favorable presence of the deity was not assumed or taken for granted.”
Carder, Kenneth L., "Why Follow a Crucified Christ?" The Christian Century, 1997.
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“We follow the crucified Christ as people of hope. We live on the other side of the cross from Peter.”
- Long, Thomas G., "Reality Show," The Christian Century, 2006.
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“Either the Lord is with us or we are pathetic fools. Down in the valley, with our faith buffeted by storms of disregard, doubt and disdain, our eyes can tell us only one thing: we are pathetic fools. But up on the mountain there is another angle of vision. Up there, in the light of Christ, we can see for real.”
- Lose, David J., "What Does This Mean? A Four-Part Exercise in Reading Mark 9:2-9 (Transfiguration)," World & World, 2003.
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“Where shall preachers and teachers locate the meaning of the gospel story of the transfiguration for themselves and their hearers: behind the text, in it, around it, or in front of it? Each location will yield insight, and none can he ignored.”
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