tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post2958468917642084824..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Holy Saturday 2010Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-51791004314941487642010-04-04T14:46:25.108-05:002010-04-04T14:46:25.108-05:00ProfW, from your link:
Magic, however, has powerf...ProfW, from your link:<br /><br /><i>Magic, however, has powerful charms. Not long ago I was with a group of ministers on the East Coast. The conversation turned to critical interpretations of the New Testament. I remarked that I did not see how people could make sense of the Bible if they were taught to think of it as a collection of ancient Associated Press reports. (Cana, Galilee — In a surprise development yesterday at a local wedding, Jesus of Nazareth transformed water into wine. . . .) “That’s your critical reading of the Gospels,” one minister replied, “but in the pulpit I can’t do that.” “Why?” I asked. “Because,” he said, “you can’t mess with Jesus.” </i><br /><br />Yup. But you do it anyway. Probably why I don't have a pulpit anymore. And certainly why I still want one.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-4939741468430648542010-04-04T10:23:25.668-05:002010-04-04T10:23:25.668-05:00I should just give you the links to the "Spea...I should just give you the links to the "Speaking of Faith" program but, as I've already given the links to the show, the transcript and the "Twitter" version of it, I'll just blog whore my Easter post. <br /><br /><b> But, then, I turned on the radio while I did some spring cleaning and came across this program, "Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God.", from American Public Media. Krista Tippett interviewed the astronomers, Father George Coyne and Brother Guy Consolmagno.* </b><br /><br />http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2010_04_04_archive.html#6258580602848374387<br /><br />Anthony McCarthyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-57212602273949132732010-04-04T07:03:29.177-05:002010-04-04T07:03:29.177-05:00By coincidence, found this, in a review of a book ...By coincidence, found this, in a review of a book on Christianity in the Times today:<br /><br />...MacCulloch adds, “I live with the puzzle of wondering how something so apparently crazy can be so captivating to millions of other members of my species.” That puzzle confronts anyone who approaches Christianity with a measure of detachment. The faith, MacCulloch notes, is “a perpetual argument about meaning and reality.”<br /><br />This is not a widely popular view, for it transforms the “Jesus loves me! This I know / For the Bible tells me so” ethos of Sunday schools and vacation Bible camps into something more complicated and challenging: what was magical is now mysterious. Magic means there is a spell, a formula, to work wonders. Mystery means there is no spell, no formula — only shadow and impenetrability and hope that one day, to borrow a phrase T. S. Eliot borrowed from Julian of Norwich, all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Meacham-t.html?pagewanted=2&ref=booksProfWombathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11251229209601018545noreply@blogger.com