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Death, the End of History, and Beyond: Eschatology in the Bible by Greg Carey , Louisville : Westminster John Knox, 2023 . xviii + 350 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-6642-3402-7
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April 7, Good Friday (John 18:1-19:42)
Caiaphas and annas make easy cartoon villains. A family tomb containing an elaborately decorated ossuary was discovered in 1990 in the Peace Forest outside Jerusalem. The ossuary is inscribed with the name “Yehoseph bar Qayapha (Qapha).” It contained the bones of a 60-year-old male, along with a woman and four children. Could the bones belong to Caiaphas? Either way, they help him become a real person to me. A real person with a wife and children, cousins, and neighbors. He was someone’s son.
David Bentley Hart’s apocalyptic view of tradition
David Bentley Hart does not get out of bed in the morning to take on small projects.
Lisa Donovan tells the stories behind the recipes
Cooking got me through a year of staying at home during the pandemic. As I recently baked a shoofly pie, adapting my grandmother Anna’s recipe for the Pennsylvania German molasses treat, I felt a kinship with Lisa Donovan, a chef who has won acclaim especially for her desserts.
During the AIDS crisis, I was brought to life by Christ
During times of turbulence in politics, culture, and religious life, it’s tempting to hold tightly to current convictions. Allowing a change of one’s mind or heart can be difficult work. With this in mind, we have resumed a Century series published at intervals since 1939, in which we ask leading thinkers to reflect on their own struggles, disappointments, and hopes as they address the topic, “How my mind has changed.” This essay is the third in the new series.
Last Scapegoat-A Requiem, by Alfonse Borysewicz
(Used by permission of the artist) Catholic painter Alfonse Borysewicz often takes inspiration from scriptural passages and liturgical rites. He has created an impressive body of work that hangs not only in galleries and private collections but in churches, monasteries, and seminaries from Brooklyn to Grand Rapids, Michigan. In this work, the background is formed from shredded musical scores.
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N.T. Wright's creative reconstruction of Paul and his world: A review
The writings of N. T. Wright are so voluminous that one might justly wonder: Why yet another book on Paul from this prolific author? The answer lies in the subtitle: A Biography. In distinction from his earlier works on Paul’s letters, here Wright tells us: “We are searching for the man behind the texts.” The audacity of that goal should give us pause. Even in the case of living authors, their identity, thoughts, formation, and motivations remain necessarily hidden, even to themselves to some degree.
How much education does a pastor need?
Luther Seminary has received a donation of $21.4 million dollars in order to pursue a pilot program for a two-year Master of Divinity degree. Since the M.Div degree is usually a four-year program in the Lutheran church, cutting two years is a major change. After this followed the inevitable and probably necessary debate about whether this was a good thing. In particular, many people in my circles voiced concerns about how the academic side of the degree was being watered down.
The New Testament in the strange words of David Bentley Hart
When a theologian of the stature of David Bentley Hart offers a “pitilessly literal translation” of the New Testament that is “not shaped by later theological and doctrinal history” and aims to make “the familiar strange, novel, and perhaps newly compelling,” we are eager to see the result.
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