According to John: Remember My Words

Byhenry May 21, 2015

Tonight’s study on According to John, based on Chapter 14 of Dr. Herold Weiss’s book Meditations on According to John, will have me going far afield from the gospel of John into a discussion of individual and community memory and the importance of a message transmitted by and shaped by a community. I will argue that rather than seeing this type of transmission as a weakness, it is, in fact a great strength and should be embraced.

What does it mean today to hear Jesus saying “Remember” (John 15:20) today? What is the role of the Holy Spirit in all this?

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What Does It Mean to Call Jesus Lord

Byhenry March 14, 2019

A commentator noted that I was not all that helpful in my post yesterday, since I hadn’t made any effort to say just what it would mean to have Jesus as the center of a doctrine, nor what it means to call Jesus Lord. In response, I obviously had to create a new, more ambitious…

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Hangout on Air Tonight: Salvation (Universalism, Pluralism, Inclusivism, Exclusivism)

Byhenry March 1, 2016

On the Energion Hangout tonight I’ll be hosting Dr. Bruce Epperly and Dr. Allan Bevere to discuss salvation in Christian theology and the terms I’ve listed. Doubtless many others will come up. The Energion Discussion Network resource page for this discussion is Soteriology. Click here for the Google+ Event Page.

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Eschatology: They Remembered Him

Byhenry September 3, 2015

I had hoped to do a bit more writing on how we interpret the Bible before tonight’s discussion. In diving into teaching a bit on eschatology, I have come to feel a bit like someone who has encountered one of the versions of the certification test for senior generalists, or the ultimate final exam. (You’ll…

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Source Criticism

Byhenry March 22, 2006

[Note, 3/25/06 — the original post was truncated due to a syntax error I made in the HTML. This is the corrected version.] (Continuing my series on Biblical criticism, from my last post From Criticism.) If Form Criticism can properly be called a “tree method” rather than a forest view, Source Criticism might be said…

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When Definitions Tangle: Law vs Law and Will vs Will

Byhenry January 31, 2017

I might have said collide, as sometimes seems to be the case, but let’s start with tangle. Here’s Paul in Romans 2: 12 All who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not…

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Genre and Canonical Criticism

Byhenry April 2, 2006

Continuing my discussion of Biblical criticism and the tools that make up that method, let’s look at genre and canonical criticism together. I do that, because they look generally at the same point in the production of the text as we have it, but look in different ways at that point in time. We have…

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Doris says:

May 22, 2015 at 6:49 am

They have seen (disciples)…..today we’re relying on their memories of their experiences with Christ and our faith. Vital are the faith stories. Our faith stories or testimonies help others to see Jesus. Our memories of our stories are vital in the faith journey, individual and collective.

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