…to read the contemporary significance of scripture to politics without the rigor of the historical transformations of politically accepted scriptural interpretation. What this amounts to is an ongoing fragmentation of…
…Note: This post was originally published on this blog on June 21, 2021. Death cannot be theologized. To the contrary, in scripture, one even finds a theological opposition to death….
…his dictum in Book I of the Politics that the life of the polis is invariably founded on the “law” (nomos) of the “household” (oikos), from which we derive the…
…value Scripture and the importance of women’s historical leadership must search for a new vision. I suggest that readers engage what Prof. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza refers to as the hermeneutics…
…helpful to explore the web of allusions which connects the text in question to the rest of scripture. Psalm 50:1-6 contains a striking series of allusions which emphasize the connection…
…these” without qualification, religious or otherwise. Which raises the question: can there be a liberative politics of creative “misinterpretation?” As John Corrigan has pointed out in his work on religion,…
…stone walls, and beautiful Lakeland countryside to our minds. Such cultural impressions of shepherding sharply contrast with scriptural representations of it. In Scripture, the shepherd is a figure who is…
…government mandated by the Bible. Throughout the narratives in scripture and throughout church history, every form of political governance is shown to be flawed and imperfect. Monarchy, democracies, and theocracies…
…to sow violence and reaped violence in return. Perhaps my reading unfairly imputes modern standards of justice onto the ancient text. If the transmitters of the David tradition in Scripture…
…into the courts? 7 Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked over you? 8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love…
…end of our temporal world. In fact, two days before such a divisive political moment in American history, I believe that the message Scripture speaks to us this week is…
…church for prophets or prophecy. Scripture itself seems to indicate that prophets are dependent on the will of God, rather than the church. This is important to remember if we…