…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…
…time. They also tended to emphasize in their thought scripture that offered clues as to how Jesus and God were to be understood in relation to one another and in…
…mystery by forging a “Theology of the Cross” from his study of Scripture and by formulating it as a small yet powerful counterweight against the “Theology of Glory” espoused by…
…of suffering. Gutiérrez argues that the Book of Job presents an interesting, complex, and relevant situation for liberation theologians. Seeking to view Scripture and context from the point of view…
…steadfast love endures forever. Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 (NRSVue) [Editor’s Note: Portions of this essay were published in a “Politics of Scripture” post on March 29, 2021.] This week, the lectionary…
…fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law…
15In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred and twenty people) and said, 16‘Friends,the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy…
…language and scripture. He made possible the renaissance of early capitalist commerce for the profit of European Christianity. He followed a very different sort of Jesus from the Jesus we…
…Christianity is called to respond to this racialized reality, called, indeed, by Scripture and by Christian teaching. Christian theology must be decolonized. A decolonial theology must be understanding of and…
…dry 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…
…the way back to Aristotle, we cannot avoid his dictum in Book I of the Politics that the life of the polis is invariably founded on the “law” (nomos) of…