Selaphiel

Hi Sela. I'm on the downhill slide for the semester now, so I'll be responding to that older PM soon. I'm sorry it's taken so long, but there's been so much going on here. A lot of adjusting to do. I wish I could say a lot of soul-searching but most of my energy has gone into treading water.I hope things are well with you.

:wave2: Hope you're doing well.

Hi Sela. I hope things are well with you. Have things quieted down a bit since the Easter liturgies?

Wow, busy busy. Glad you survived your first Easter as priest. Take your time on the questions. :chuckle:

I've been alright. Hurt my foot somehow so I've been struggling with that but have some medicine that's helping. Had a good Easter. Went to my sister's house for lunch. Not much else going on. Still reading Jenson. On chapter 6 but haven't read it in a few days because of other things.

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Happy Easter. :e4e:

Thank you. Will be back later today.

:eek: I just realized that for each day there are multiple pages. SO that 'presence' prayer was only part of today's prayers and scripture.

http://www.sacredspace.ie/daily-prayer/2016-03-23

I'll get the hang of it soon enough. :chuckle:

Hope you are doing well.

Have you ever heard of this website? http://www.sacredspace.ie/

I heard about it a while back but kept forgetting to go there. Here is today's prayer.


Presence
As I sit here, the beating of my heart,
the ebb and flow of my breathing, the movements of my mind
are all signs of God's ongoing creation of me.
I pause for a moment, and become aware
of this presence of God within me.


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Just dropping by to say hi. Hope you're doing well.

I went to an event last night that you might have enjoyed. It was a performance based on this book: http://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Daughter-Historical-Memoir-Science/dp/0802779654

Dava was there narrating select parts of her book accompanied by a couple musicians and a singer and a video showing various animations, images, and videos of the earth and planets.
http://www.galileosdaughters.com/programs.html

I enjoyed it, though I was a bit disappointed by the video portion. I was expecting more videos and images of actual nature and space rather than animations. It was still entertaining and informative though. The book might be a fascinating read.

Hope you're having a good weekend. :e4e:

Thanks.

As for you, :chuckle: yes - you may be slightly busier than usual.

Seriously, though, I can imagine how busy things will be, in this busiest (and richest) time of the liturgical year.

Mostly grumpy lurking. Or grumpy mostly lurking.

You made me chuckle, though. :chuckle:

I got your other message, thanks. I'm glad things are going well for you, it'll be a while before I can write, your PM will take a lot of thinking and I'm buried in midterms right now. I have five classes so a lot of studying - I may not be able to write until Spring break which is a couple weeks away. Don't give up on me.

No rush on the PM. Just a couple random things going through my head.

Blessings in the Dharma light

I'm a bit further. I'm through the first two chapters and got a little bit in to the third. One thing he said which was new for me is how he described the NT writings as engaging in theological discussion and that it's not even the best or most coherent theology but it's the original and must be unchallenged and guides subsequent discussion. In my experience scripture is normally branched off in its own sphere and we, everyone after the apostles, are creating theological discussion after that. In the past several years as I've read more historical-critical analysis of scripture I have seen views that are basically saying the same thing but not quite in the way Jenson did.

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:chuckle: Nice. I feel so out of my league when it comes to the prophets (not that I'm in too deep for anything else. ). What I'd prefer at this point is a historical analysis of the prophets rather than a theological view, or perhaps even a theological view from Judaism instead of Christianity. What Jenson says about Isaiah seems right, I'm surprised that series hasn't done Isaiah yet.

Sounds like an interesting sermon. I understand how Bruggeman may have helped with that. The last question Bruggeman answered in the HC podcast was about what he'd teach his grandchildren. He said he'd start in the OT with the manna story and compare it to the feeding of the 5000 in the NT. Then contrast God's abundance with Capitalism that focuses so much on scarcity.

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I got: Sabbath as Resistance, An Other Kingdom, and A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament
The first two are relatively short and I don't expect them to be as theologically heavy which is part of why I got all 3. They should be quick reads. The last one is much longer but the HC podcast definitely got me interested in hearing more from him. Although, Bruggeman is only one of its authors. In the HC podcast he talked some about how the gospel story relates to capitalism and I'm thinking An Other Kingdom will cover that in more depth. It's probably pretty safe to say that Bruggeman will be the next theologian I read after Jenson. :chuckle:

Nice. Did you choose Ezekiel for any particular reason?

I had Amazon points and got a little crazy last night. Ordered 3 Bruggeman books.

I listened to Bruggeman's HC podcast. It was interesting. They mentioned an essay he wrote called "Covenant as Subversive Paradigm" that I'd like to read. I found a link online but it's dead.
They briefly talked about it. Subversive in modern times by changing God from a 'fixed point' (which I think they say stems from the Enlightenment period) and subversive in ancient times by changing God from something/someone who can be manipulated.