On Methodology in Theology

The fruit of the Spirit are the means by which we acquire theological understanding…

Control

If it is difficult enough trying to control the things within our control, one can imagine how difficult it is to control the things that are not within our control.

I cannot find my prolepsis post so …

I will write again what I think I have written before…
“… the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.” ~ Romans 4:17
Faith is prolepsis . . . I guess…
“Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have [...]

Modernization does not lead to Secularization…

The claim that modernization leads to secularization fails. The US is not an exception so much as Europe is exceptional in being an instance of this claim. Modernity has its avatars … each conflicted within and without.
The rest of the world apart from Europe is a counterexample to this…
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Man is either religious or vicariously [...]

Religion of the Mouth

You speak vertically first . . . horizontally second.

Religion of the Lonely Man

You can be physically alone and not be lonely. You can be surrounded by a 1,000 ppl, and experience a profound loneliness.
You can be with ppl, and they not be with you.
It seems that while Jesus was often with the disciples, they were often not with Him. And in the end they abandoned Him.

Gorgon Reality

Medusa – one morning I looked in the mirror and realized that I was a Medusa.
The Bible is a mirror that shows us for the Medusa’s that we are.

What is the good life?

What is the good life?
God!
Yes. God is the good life, and yet the good life is not God.

Places

You go to a place.
Eventually the place comes to you.
(Of course, sometimes it never does. Then what do you do? I suppose you leave.)

One reason why you avoid ppl

One reason why you avoid others may be because you hate them.
One reason why you avoid others may be because you hate yourself.