Between my recent crash course in “Big History” in a seminary class and reading Wendell Berry’s Life is A Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition, I have been reflecting on two things: my own lack of knowledge in the realm of science (environmental science, earth science, and biology) and the general disregard for science within [...]
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While reading yesterday I came across the same idea in two very different texts. Given that it was a new idea to me, it gave me pause and is pushing me to engage with the creation accounts of Genesis in a new way. Jacques Ellul in Anarchy and Christianity: Far from being the universal Commander, the [...]
The Trinity and inclusive love
Posted: May 27, 2011 by peterjosephgarcia in Just for FunTags: creation, dualism, love, oppression, trinity
Moving towards a theology that embraces both oppressed peoples and care for the earth requires the reclamation of trinitarian concepts and language that move us into communities rooted in radical love. Patrick Cheng writes, The doctrine of the Trinity is a manifestation of God’s radical love because it is an internal community of radical love. [...]
History/Nature dualism, imago Dei
Posted: May 20, 2011 by peterjosephgarcia in Just for FunTags: dualism, History, imago dei, nature
Essential to developing an ecologically sensitive theology is the necessity of devising a theology of nature. Richard Bauckham sheds some clarity on the concept of nature and how the word is commonly used. He lays out four common usages of the term ‘nature’: (1) essence, such as employed in Chalcedonian Christology, (2) the entirety of [...]
Looking for Justice
Posted: May 9, 2011 by peterjosephgarcia in Just for FunTags: dualism, incarnation, Justice, oppression
I’m going to lay my cards on the table as I try to reflect on the momentous event that happened this week. I do not have a nationalistic or patriotic bone in my body. I did not personally lose any loved ones on September 11, 2001, nor did I lose any loved ones in the [...]
Priests of Creation
Posted: April 28, 2011 by peterjosephgarcia in Just for FunTags: Anthropocentrism, Eastern Orthodoxy, ecology, Sacrament
(Posted by Peter Garcia) For the past twenty years, Eastern Orthodoxy has been carving out a place for itself within the ecological movement. Its leaders and prominent theological voices are calling for great change within the way Christianity views humanity and the earth and the implications of the Created-creature divide. Two themes show up a lot [...]
Jesus Christ The Fulfillment of the Old Testament
Posted: April 26, 2011 by Michael Dewalt in Just for FunJesus Christ fulfilled the Messianic Prophecy foretold by the Old Testament authors. Study the prophecies yourself and consider the probability of just one person fulfilling even a few of these specific prophecies! Luke 24:44 says, “Then he said, ‘When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me by Moses and [...]
Chaos and Equality: Part 2
Posted: April 21, 2011 by peterjosephgarcia in Just for FunTags: chaos, equality, Job, patriarchy
Two weeks ago I wrote on my engagement with Job via Brown’s The Ethos of the Cosmos (read Part 1 here). I left off with Job envisioning an undoing of creation in an imaginative peeling back the layers of reality to reveal the chaos into which God spoke and brought forth life and order (see Job [...]
I’ve been swamped with reading and writing this week as I am two weeks from the close of my semester. Suffice it to say that I’ll finish my discussion on Job and equality next week. In the mean time, I was really stoked to come across this last week. A company in my town is [...]
