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13 years ago @ Reclaiming the Mission - The Emerging View of S... · 0 replies · +1 points
Does this make sense?
[Concerning creation theology, see A.M. Wolters "The Foundational Command: "Subdue the Earth!"; J. Richard Middleton, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1.]
13 years ago @ Reclaiming the Mission - The Emerging View of S... · 0 replies · +1 points
In this way, the message of/about Jesus via McLaren isn't so dichotomous, as JMorrow has pointed out. And now we can act out this idea in profound ways.
13 years ago @ Reclaiming the Mission - The Emerging View of S... · 0 replies · +1 points
-- You describe the here-and-now of it as an "unjust world," but I wonder if it is a just world which is compromised by human acts of injustice?
13 years ago @ Reclaiming the Mission - The Emerging View of S... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ Reclaiming the Mission - The "Emerging" View of... · 0 replies · +1 points
I was wondering if you could elaborate a bit more on what you mean by the "logic of incarnation?" As it stands, it is a bit fuzzy to me. Also, I am wondering how a prophetic edge fits into your gospel account? Does not table fellowship via the Spirit call for one to risk a balance a mutual interdependency, where relations are scored by one humbling themselves before the other, and anticipating and hoping the other is genuinely doing the same -- even among the closest and most dearest brothers and sisters? I am not seeing this bit in your account. I do not wish to render the table on pins and needles, only encourage a missional edge to a give-and-take. After all, the undomesticated act at Pentecost must have overturned tables in a sort of chaotic order.
13 years ago @ Reclaiming the Mission - The "Emerging" View of... · 0 replies · +1 points
-- But something dangerous, even potentially destructive, is indeed not an arc that shoots outside of the canonical trajectory of Scripture; namely, I am referring to the critiques leveled in the prophetic canon. Does not Jeremiah exegetically fall in line with the rich tradition of Amos and his judgment against the city/temple establishment in Judah, where the temple mount shall be deconstructed and replaced by a "wooded height" if they do not turn and repent from their ways (see Jer. 26 via Amos 3). And of course, as we know, Christ centers himself very much inside the Jeremiahic vein (i.e. Jer. 7).
Cutting ties with a people -- even going against them -- in which you have kept a faithful covenant with in the past must always remain an option, otherwise impunity and self-righteousness creeps in. But deconstruction is never willy-nilly nihilism; it always implies a later re-construction. This stuff is well within the overall arc of Scripture -- not just an anomolous vector -- and extends sharply to the Christological point established during his life, ministry, death and resurrection.