tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post5857725527345334420..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Meditation for Easter Sunday 2010Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-3665862289160002322010-04-25T09:45:05.861-05:002010-04-25T09:45:05.861-05:00visit my blog on meditation and its benefits : htt...visit my blog on meditation and its benefits : http://meditationrevealed.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-223920050998468582010-04-13T12:47:22.969-05:002010-04-13T12:47:22.969-05:00Rick--
My analytical Greek Lexicon tells me ἐπιού...Rick--<br /><br />My analytical Greek Lexicon tells me ἐπιούσῃ is a dative feminine singular present participle of epeini (I can't reproduce the Greek alphabet so readily), which is "To come upon; to come after; to succeed immediately." And it references 5 uses in Acts: 7:26; 16:11; 20:15; and 21:18, as well as the verse you cite. "Epiousias" is referenced only in Matthew and Luke, and only one time in each.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-81385759856275855712010-04-13T10:18:36.536-05:002010-04-13T10:18:36.536-05:00"The meaning of the Greek word epiousios is d..."The meaning of the Greek word epiousios is disputed. Possible translations are "daily," "for sustenance," and "for the future." Its only certain occurrence in the Greek language is in the Lord's prayer."<br /><br />There seems to be a related form of the word, a dative [?], in Acts 23:11:<br /><br />Τῇ δὲ ἐπιούσῃ νυκτὶ ἐπιστὰς αὐτῷ ὁ κύριος εἶπεν· θάρσει· ὡς γὰρ διεμαρτύρω τὰ περὶ ἐμοῦ εἰς Ἰερουσαλήμ, οὕτω σε δεῖ καὶ εἰς Ῥώμην μαρτυρῆσαι.rick allenhttp://quijotefelix.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-16267980874102455212010-04-09T12:33:17.847-05:002010-04-09T12:33:17.847-05:00From the Daily Office today:
Listen, I will tell ...From the Daily Office today:<br /><br /><i>Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:<br />‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’ <br />‘Where, O death, is your victory?<br /> Where, O death, is your sting?’ <br />The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.</i><br /><br />1 Corinthians 15:51-58<br /><br />Yes!June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-49602604923567143312010-04-08T22:57:17.986-05:002010-04-08T22:57:17.986-05:00First, I agree with Mimi, first and last here. Th...First, I agree with Mimi, first and last here. Then:<br /><br /><i>In short, it doesn't matter to me whether there was a body.</i><br /><br />I do find it fascinating to consider it was an issue in the 1st century, as well as in the 21st.<br /><br />Some things are consistent over time. Makes me feel connected to them, somehow.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-26989953505027326372010-04-08T18:27:45.048-05:002010-04-08T18:27:45.048-05:00Perhaps science will mature and show us what kind ...<i>Perhaps science will mature and show us what kind of body Jesus had. And wouldn't Sam Harris be shocked?</i><br /><br />My statement above is pure irony, a private joke in reference to <a href="http://rmadisonj.blogspot.com/2010/04/starting-easter-monday-with-bang-not.html" rel="nofollow">another post</a> here at Adventus. I don't believe that science will answer our questions about the resurrection.<br /><br />And my statement about a bodily resurrection should be taken in the context of the words which I posted under the title of my blog:<br /><br />"FAITH IS NOT CERTAINTY SO MUCH AS IT IS ACTING-AS-IF IN GREAT HOPE."<br /><br />And I rarely think about the hereafter. Today is sufficient.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-59149271821745625612010-04-08T17:55:31.752-05:002010-04-08T17:55:31.752-05:00As soon as I left home and could do so, I walked a...As soon as I left home and could do so, I walked away from the literal, evangelical, Fundamentalist religion I'd been raised in. I wasn't able to return to any religion for another 15 years, when I decided that empirically and rationally knowing something wasn't the only way to know something, and the question of "was it true" was different from "was it real."<br /><br />In short, it doesn't matter to me whether there was a body.Sherrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-84384501398388914792010-04-07T18:09:10.575-05:002010-04-07T18:09:10.575-05:00You know, I read Bultmann and Schweitzer in colleg...You know, I read Bultmann and Schweitzer in college, and back about fifteen years ago had a strange fit in which I read The Five Gospels and Crosson and Shorto and Funk and Sheehan and Borg and (what was then available of) Meier and seems like a few others on the historical Jesus, and in the long run I end up with the sense that nothing much was ever established, however much fun it was to reconstruct this or that as the historical substratum to the gospels. So, yeah, in a sense it's true that, for me, none of those things "happened," because, though I considered them, and followed their arguments, they seem to have washed over me and receeded with hardly a trace. <br /><br />Strangely, I keep going back to the gospels with more interest (trying to improve my Greek and trying to pick up enough Aramaic to get through the Peshitta over the next decade), but the various "quests" to explain what really happened now leave me cold and uninterested.<br /><br />For that reason I suppose I should thank my lucky stars I'm not a clergyman feeling like he has to somehow mediate all those scientific findings on the gospels to his charges to avoid being thought magical.<br /><br />As it happens, I was reading from Meister Eckhart's outrageous, unimaginable commentary on Genesis from the first of the Classics of Western Spirituality series this morning on the bus, and I found him so much more compelling than our dour contemporary exegetes I had to wonder if I was just in terminal revolt against the reductionism and implicit cynicism of this age.rick allenhttp://quijotefelix.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-35630013222542933462010-04-07T06:12:04.105-05:002010-04-07T06:12:04.105-05:00As I grapple with the leaked video of our attack o...<i>As I grapple with the leaked video of our attack on civilians in Baghdad,</i><br /><br />I have to admit, I keep thinking of the gunner on the Huey in "Full Metal Jacket," firing on Vietnamese civilians in the rice fields as they fly past: "If it runs, it's VC! If it stands still, it's well trained VC!"<br /><br /><i>Plus ca change</i>, and all that....Or, as Jesus might ask: "Can Satan drive out Satan?"Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-18511798172871114542010-04-07T01:03:38.339-05:002010-04-07T01:03:38.339-05:00Yet we insist on that same materiality, or tremble...<i>Yet we insist on that same materiality, or tremble when it isn't presented to us in church as a solid conclusion of empiricism. </i><br /><br />As I grapple with the leaked video of our attack on civilians in Baghdad, I keep thinking for some reason of the fundamentalists -- war supporters, often -- who think that Noah's Ark has been found, or will be found.<br /><br />To me, it seems like an odd story to want to confirm. God tries to eradicate evil by force, and fails. It's downright un-American!Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-35118218868952817192010-04-06T22:29:33.502-05:002010-04-06T22:29:33.502-05:00I don't know what kind of body. I have no idea...<i>I don't know what kind of body. I have no idea what kind of body, but I believe there was/is a body. It seems to me that because of the incarnation, the resurrection of Jesus was of a body of some sort of which I cannot presently conceive. </i><br /><br />I think the Evangelists would agree with you.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-11427098520837424422010-04-06T21:51:40.068-05:002010-04-06T21:51:40.068-05:00I own McCulloch's tome, but I have not yet beg...I own McCulloch's tome, but I have not yet begun to read the book, as I'm reading about three other books at the moment. I loved <i>The Reformation</i>.<br /><br /><i>What kind of body does this Jesus have? What kind of person is he, that he can disappear like this, and later ascend into heaven in full sight of all those watching?</i><br /><br />I don't know what kind of body. I have no idea what kind of body, but I believe there was/is a body. It seems to me that because of the incarnation, the resurrection of Jesus was of a body of some sort of which I cannot presently conceive. Because of one, the other follows. Of course, some might say that I make up my theology, and it's mine and mine alone. But I suspect we all make up our theologies, to one degree or another. <br /><br />Perhaps science will mature and show us what kind of body Jesus had. And wouldn't Sam Harris be shocked?June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.com