Tag Archives: Conceptions
- May 28, 2008
- Paul and Sex(uality) “According to Nature”– also tagged Antiquity, Argumentation, Christian Sexuality, Constructions, Contemporaries, Dichotomy, Different Types Of Behavior, Discourse, Disdain, Dividing Lines, Greco Roman, Greeks, Homo Sex, Homosexuality, Intercourse, Jubilee, Logics, Paraphrase, Penetrator, Proper Sex, Ramifications, Romans, Rying, Sexuality, Social Hierarchy, Stephen Moore, Uality, When It Came To Sex
Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural (παρα φύσιν), and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. Romans 1:26-27
Perhaps no two verses have played [...]
- February 27, 2008
- Justice– also tagged Base Model, Big Picture, Christians, Developing World, Gap, Isaiah, Ivan, James 1, Large Scale, Material Conditions, Material Possessions, Materialism, Moral Problem, Rebellion, Scale Application, Spiritual Redemption, Sunday School Class, Working Towards Peace, World Statistics
One of the themes in my Sunday school class is justice. We have looked at God’s desire for material justice1 in the world. We have looked at such verses as Isaiah 61:8, Zech 7:8-10, and James 1:27; all of which make it crystal clear that one of our functions in this world is [...]
- December 6, 2007
- Mary’s Magnificat: A National Anthem for Terrorism– also tagged Commentaries, Consumerism, Dominion, Exodus, Hebrew Slaves, Hegemony, Maccabean War, Maccabees, National Anthem, Notions, Peasant Woman, Poor Servant, Rulers, S Song, Scholarly Support, Sense Of Security, Sentimentality, Sufferings, War Song
Over the last few weeks I’ve been studying Mary’s Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55). I’ve never paid much attention to this text – it’s just one of those passages churches sappily pull out once a year to reinforce our American sentimentality about Christmas.
But I recognize quite quickly that this passage does not buttress our sentimentality toward [...]