Neither birds in cages nor those with broken wings are free to fly. Nor will removing the cage of a bird with broken wings bring it its desired freedom; the wounded bird will be left an easy prey for its foes. -Westerholm, Understanding Paul "Think outside the box." "Free to explore." "Dr
07.19.2011| The Fish Tank | jihyechoi
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“The crucial difference between the Catholic and common uses of the word “mystery” lies here. When the term is applied to divine realities, the mystery involved is by definition without end. This is not to say (as nominalists, in contrast to Aquinas, seemed to want to say) that the things
07.4.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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Against every dictate of common (or is it merely human?) sense, the apostle Paul once audaciously claimed that, in his own intentional crafting of his gospel message, he adhered to this startling PR strategy: "Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloque
07.4.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart" --Unknown Of late, I've been (trying) to keep up with a discourse on the voluntary/involuntary nature of faith.There has been an intellectual interplay of argu
06.21.2011| The Fish Tank | jihyechoi
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The overwhelming majority of commentators and scholars who reflect upon Paul's letter to the Romans agree that 1:16-17 is the thesis of the apostle's entire vision. Succintly, Romans is all about the 'revelation of God's righteousness.' The great hope of the Old Testament, in which the peopl
06.20.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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"One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there's nothing but unanswered pain. That death's got the final word, it's laughing at him. Another man sees that same bird, feels the glory, feels something smiling through it." (From the opening monologue in The Thin Red Line) "For the early Christians th
06.13.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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My regular reading practice of the Gospels has been most acutely altered over the past few years as a direct result of what now strikes me as a painfully obvious hermeneutical principle. In sum, I have learned to read all (without exception--I really do mean all) of Jesus' sayings and action
06.6.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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