tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.comments2023-07-03T11:49:37.837+01:00TheologiesMarikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02613745498284783614noreply@blogger.comBlogger492125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-4980692603098663502020-06-04T05:58:49.215+01:002020-06-04T05:58:49.215+01:00Lutherface made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that...Lutherface made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that. Luther would probably call you a papist and a "donkey". ;P seriously though I enjoyed this...and it seems to me insightful regarding his train if thought. Where is part 2?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-45953959099409698252018-08-17T20:39:29.195+01:002018-08-17T20:39:29.195+01:00
In what ways will an error or incorrect theology ...<br />In what ways will an error or incorrect theology impact one of those theologies affect the other divisions? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345098574880117548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-68226580062281493282017-04-22T19:53:11.942+01:002017-04-22T19:53:11.942+01:00The old hexametre Verse Hexapla by Origenes seem t...The old hexametre Verse Hexapla by Origenes seem to be The origin of 6 <br />religions. Other roman not greek alike origenes as roman emperors and their theogonia, theogonius about rules of state church does seem tog havet The Whole world in his hands, strangly enough. In invisible hands too!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10970235808349997171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-40619972619394773052017-02-07T17:05:38.691+00:002017-02-07T17:05:38.691+00:00
Dear Marika, the Lord gave you the talent to expl...<br />Dear Marika, the Lord gave you the talent to explain in understandable ways and with humor. Bill, you really need a guide to read St. Thomas, for he presumes you know his interpretation of Aristotelian philosophy. Pancho Berumenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10703496700400917410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-65057472402056146482016-06-22T05:35:49.118+01:002016-06-22T05:35:49.118+01:00This is very funny original and actually quite acc...This is very funny original and actually quite accurate, and a simplified way of presenting very complex issues. Don't know what Lutherans would make of it though lolvialacteahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12426608794311874154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-54627629832416506582016-01-12T08:20:35.296+00:002016-01-12T08:20:35.296+00:00What I can honestly say, you have saved me a great...What I can honestly say, you have saved me a great deal of time as a psychologist.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02035218508731422395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-15219959420857290382015-12-23T17:35:32.640+00:002015-12-23T17:35:32.640+00:00Martin Luther did not enjoy scholastic theology. H...Martin Luther did not enjoy scholastic theology. He preferred that Aristotle's work not influence theology. More direct, 'Aristotle's logic'. Nonetheless, Luther did use logic (as all do). Luther showed an appreciation for a logic that 'cared' for others. Luther felt that scholastic theology made theology "too systematic" and allowed students of theology to 'understand' God, but not use apply theology to the work of God, offering authentic grace to others.Theologian John Gerstner and R.C. Sproul in their work "Classical Apologetics" write an excellent article about this. They argue that Luther did enjoy logic (as some think he did not)-but that he preferred a logic that 'cared' like the way that Cicero used reason. <br /><br />Thanks!Bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-17477092552204639242015-12-15T03:34:18.588+00:002015-12-15T03:34:18.588+00:00"it makes me sad that he sees the beauty of s..."it makes me sad that he sees the beauty of salvation apparently only by contrast to the corruption of everything else."<br /><br />But why does that make you sad? How can we talk about the greatness of God's love if we don't know just how great his wrath against sin is? How can we talk about God's forgiveness if we don't know what we're being forgiven from? If we downplay "corruption" aka SIN, then we are downplaying salvation and Jesus' work on the cross. If humans aren't totally depraved, then why did Jesus, the God-Man, Son of God, have to die as a sacrifice? The gospel of Christ is watered down when we don't take SIN and corruption seriously.<br />(I'm a Calvinist btw)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-3249588415358265432015-09-23T19:28:19.433+01:002015-09-23T19:28:19.433+01:00this was a great article, clarified so much inform...this was a great article, clarified so much information for me, thank youAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15968946356349292152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-24738536413781319472015-09-07T17:31:57.105+01:002015-09-07T17:31:57.105+01:00I read Keirkegaard for an undegraduate class on ex...I read Keirkegaard for an undegraduate class on existentialism back in the '80s. As an economist and musician now, I see his categories a little differently. In economics we see behavior as an outcome of the preferences we express through the constraints (feasible alternatives) we face. The environment are the constraints externally placed on us.<br />The aesthetic are our preferences over the external world. The religious are the constraints we place on our selves. The ethical are the preferences we have over who we are. I usual refer to the last as spiritual, to help contrast spiritual concerns from religious concerns.<br />So, the ethical becomes an aesthetic of self. This creates an interesting dynamic. The religious may attempt to put constraints on the self we choose to express, at the same time the ethical (spiritual) influences how we choose to constrain ourselves. Loosely speaking, the religious might tell us what spirit is acceptable, and the spiritual tells us what religions are preferable. The essential theological question changes from "is there a God" to "how do we listen to the divine." If God was essentially the equivalent of a white-noise generator (creating a random universe, but a creation none the less), it is the patterns we find in the noise that we treat as real and commanding. Seach google A.I. dreams to see how this shows up using neural network algorithms. <br /> The key insight is that we ultimately choose our religion (if any at all). Unfortunately, the aesthetic value from this choice depends on our treating the religion as if we have no choice about it. The transition from adolescent to adulthood is essentially from treating our emotions as something we have no choice over, to recognizing that we do (even if it is an effort to do so). The transition from the hebrew's jealous,almost bipolar god to christ's all loving god is very similar. Compassion for the limits in our ability to choose and manifest, reminders that we still have to choose none the less. As existentialist as you can get.<br />Daxenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-56422447050816733342015-02-27T16:04:03.118+00:002015-02-27T16:04:03.118+00:00Love the content. Enjoy the unique perspective yo...Love the content. Enjoy the unique perspective you bring. I have a blog myself and would love your thoughts on it:<br />www.theway-book.com/compass. On it, we focus on getting people activated in their walk with God through various posts and activities. Hope to hear from you and thanks again for the unique perspectiveChris Farrishttp://www.theway-book.com/compassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-79066601045945400312015-01-03T22:05:28.487+00:002015-01-03T22:05:28.487+00:00Thank you for explaining the two words in a simpli...Thank you for explaining the two words in a simplistic manner. You did a great job of bringing it down to Earth.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05910975823116295995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-80218204663228474522014-12-03T13:38:59.227+00:002014-12-03T13:38:59.227+00:00lol, ok.lol, ok.Marikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02613745498284783614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-6782818553684542502014-12-03T12:56:34.843+00:002014-12-03T12:56:34.843+00:00If Luther sounds like a "prat," you soun...If Luther sounds like a "prat," you sound like a dick, not surprising as you clearly haven't understood a word he said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-7309444061709028002014-04-30T04:41:16.471+01:002014-04-30T04:41:16.471+01:00Have you re-visited him? Many of the parallels tha...Have you re-visited him? Many of the parallels that you make between his philosophy and your life experience (or the imagined life experience of someone following him) cast me back into my Senior Year of High School. They seem like the kind of parallels I might have made as a teenager, or if I would not have made them I would have argued against them as I do now.<br /><br />I have found that at least one serious philosophical professor I've encountered re-visited a number of his favourites from his youth, and he saw virtues in their works which he would not have read into them early on.<br /><br />Personally, I have found that people who put down "adolescents" as being inferior in any way are fooling themselves and in many ways have not really departed from their high school selves. Their own restlessness to escape their past shows that they haven't found answers to questions that dogged them in their earlier youth. This tends to happen in the age range of twenty to thirty; older people, from my experience, have more humility, as do many teenagers, which is why I avoid many people in my own age group.<br /><br />Hopefully I misjudged you. But I would like to say some specific things: Studying for your PhD, it is understandable that you may elevate your lecturers to the degree of Authorities, but please remember that probably you will learn most of what you learn long after you have gotten your PhD. This I am extrapolating from what the philosophy professor I mentioned previously told me. Another professor I've met said that a student has to question his teachers, and this man puts up with a lot of crud from his colleagues for learning from his students.<br /><br />Personally, I think that anyone interested in existentialist thought has to have a passionate commitment to questioning anyone claiming to be an authority; seeing how society works reminds me of how people get into positions of power. As for the virtues of the solitary life: "Having no friends" seems like a typical fear that many adolescents and young adults have; being able to sever ties in pursuit of higher ideals helps one to find better friends, however hard it may be to do this. I am still trying to learn this. Finally, and this may be a pretension of someone interested in psychology: It was observed by Kohlberg that most adolescents and adults tend to live on a level of moral development wherein they are determined by social norms. Some of the (pardon the pun) either/or dichotomies you mentioned -- between propriety and impropriety, chiefly, with no third variable -- seem very rationalistic, but beware that it may be pretentious to simply construe of an individual's virtues entirely in terms of whether or not they belong to social expectations. As an introvert and a religious thinker, Kierkegaard seems to have tried ardently to extricate himself from even that realm of thinking. (Mass-mindedness.)<br /><br />Finally, I would recommend that you look into the Russian thinker Lev Shestov if you are interested in giving Existentialism in general a fair critique. Hopefully we can continue this discussion.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Dmitry.Rinzaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328408202083638883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-81889532968965018712013-11-29T17:33:49.650+00:002013-11-29T17:33:49.650+00:00Marika,
I enjoyed this article that reframes the ...Marika,<br /><br />I enjoyed this article that reframes the dualist perspective on luther: <br /><br />http://msc.gutenberg.edu/2001/02/dueling-with-dualism/<br /><br />Thanks for writing.JLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15055818563776548912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-37106784252916842782013-11-05T05:17:20.928+00:002013-11-05T05:17:20.928+00:00Nice explaination of Rahner's views on Anonymo...Nice explaination of Rahner's views on Anonymous Christian.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08846544727654274991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-29960806029020881442013-11-05T05:15:52.194+00:002013-11-05T05:15:52.194+00:00Hi,
Karl Rahner even says that there are some que...Hi,<br /> Karl Rahner even says that there are some questions in regard to his idea of "anonymous christian". <br /><br />I think he would be fine knowing that someone thinks he is an anonymous Hindu, for Hindus adore god as well and Rahner loves god.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08846544727654274991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-12207917345432291332013-10-24T15:47:21.863+01:002013-10-24T15:47:21.863+01:00Just for the sake of clarity, let me add a small c...Just for the sake of clarity, let me add a small correction here. For Luther, the "old man" is not the body, but the soul before grace. That's quite clear in "Christian Freedom," when he says things like:<br /><br />"Christ is full of grace, life, and salvation; the soul is full of sin, death, and condemnation. Let faith step in, and then sin, death, and hell will belong to Christ, and grace, life, and salvation to the soul. For, if he is a husband, he must needs take to himself that which is his wife's, and, at the same time, impart to his wife that which is his."<br /><br />Incidentally, it is also passages like this one which open up something genuinely interesting about Luther, but not well enough known. When he writes about salvation, he often relies on the image of a "joyous exchange," in which Christ gives us his righteousness in trade for our death. I believe the idea has its roots in Augustine, and was passed on to Luther by his monastic superior, Von Staupitz.<br /><br />It's quite different from the "banking" model familiar to many people, including many Lutherans, in which the merits of Christ are applied to our account. The big difference is that the exchange of wedding gifts is part of a personal encounter, where the transfer of "funds" is a purely forensic, impersonal act.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-87255909721136615932013-09-05T09:25:02.256+01:002013-09-05T09:25:02.256+01:00Thank you, you have made something quite complex i...Thank you, you have made something quite complex into something quite simple to understand and helped the 'penny to drop' for me on this distinction in theologies.Andre' Oosthuizenhttp://newparadigmthinkers.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-37137592913583382002013-09-01T03:02:08.161+01:002013-09-01T03:02:08.161+01:00This article seems to be oblivious to the incarnat...This article seems to be oblivious to the incarnation, that the Son of God became one of us: "No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known" (John 1. 18). It is irrefutable that human beings are finite and therefore limited in our comprehension and explanation of the essence of who is the infinite God. But that is why God has revealed Himself in Jesus and Scripture. This article makes more of its bias than its subject, in my opinion. Douglasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-44470781912026596332013-05-16T17:17:46.314+01:002013-05-16T17:17:46.314+01:00Not sure how the subject Jesus Christ can be ident...Not sure how the subject Jesus Christ can be identical with God's second 'mode of being'... when Barth has already defined all the subjectivity out of them.<br /><br />And if it is, still seems strange.... as it basically means we have two sets of consiousness in God - at least after 3 BC - the 'single subjectivity' of the one divine Subject, God proper, plus the subjectivity of Jesus Christ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-47696476509811433862013-04-03T19:31:10.853+01:002013-04-03T19:31:10.853+01:00Marika, I was looking for something on Marion and ...Marika, I was looking for something on Marion and found your blog. It's fine, I just saw something in your profile about you and getting distracted from failure. I only wish to encourage you. I think you're doing great, there's no failure at all in writing as you are. And also, maybe I can suggest you take a look at Christian Orthodoxy and its icons directly, not through others' perspective. I am a Romanian, I am 55 and I guarantee I know what i'm talking about. I live in a monastery in the mountains of Romania and now and then I come to the city. Believe me, there's more to it than you think, it's worth it. Catholicism and Protestantism aren't the only brands of Christianity. But find out for yourself, not through Milbank etc. I have nothing against him, I've not read him but now I may try. My point is, go to the source.<br />Andrei<br />PS Can you help me find Marion's The Idol and the Distance in English or French in electronic format? If yes, pls drop me a note at andrei.dirlau@yahoo.com, it-s unlikely I'll get to your blog again.<br />may God bless you and your fine workAndrei Dîrlăuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169297900848028830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-43607601129060522532013-03-09T17:27:53.743+00:002013-03-09T17:27:53.743+00:00Marika, this seems to be a fair summary of Luther&...Marika, this seems to be a fair summary of Luther's goal in this letter. He certainly did not seem to desire a break with the Catholic Church, and is trying to defend himself on the matter of 'sola fide'. <br />Unfortunately, his reevaluation of the Eucharist left him utterly outside of union with Catholic thought. (See the oath required of Berenger of Tours, 11th century, for what Luther would have had to swear to for Reconciliation).<br />On the matter of 'sola fide', we see the same recipe to heresy with the Catholic Church as any: the strong exaggeration of an aspect of scripture, to the complete disregard of another. Luther's famous naming of James as the 'Epistle of Straw' shows this disregard.<br />The Catholic Church agrees that works alone do not save, and that all works are ideally done for the sake of Love (Caritas), so the real question is of justification by faith and what it means, i.e. what is grace and how does it change us, i.e. are we "depraved" or merely deprived of goodness; this is where he slips off the Catholic Church's back.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18169439480865908751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-31417891015504389162013-01-19T17:11:28.125+00:002013-01-19T17:11:28.125+00:00Anonymous mustn't be too sure of him/herself, ...Anonymous mustn't be too sure of him/herself, or he/she would have a name. His/her big error is thinking Eckhart is a gnostic--typical of people who value gnosis higher than praxis, which is what Eckhart is all about.proflingnoreply@blogger.com