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My post is very late, so I expect I won’t have a live audience tonight at all (they’re always very small), but still I need to provide the link for those who watch later. There will be some interesting connections tonight with my discussion with Steve Kindle (and his book I’m Right and You’re Wrong) on the video below:
I provide some devotional thoughts (not particularly exegetical!) that I gleaned from this passage in my post today for my wife’s devotional list.
I’m continuing my notes on 1 Chronicles, working from the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary volume on 1 & 2 Chronicles by Mark J. Boda. One of the strengths of this particular commentary is making the themes of the book and the connections between the various passages very clear. The chronicler presents his theology in the form…
While I haven’t written anything on it myself, I’ve published quite a number of books regarding how Christians should relate to authority. These include Christian Archy and The Jesus Paradigm (David Alan Black), Ultimate Allegiance and Faith in the Public Square (Bob Cornwall), Rendering unto Caesar (Chris Surber), and Preserving Democracy (Elgin L. Hushbeck, Jr.)….
My friend and Energion author Allan Bevere posted this morning on this topic, and I want to call attention to it for several reasons. First, this is a topic I find very interesting. Second, I think it’s appropriate to discuss the problems of violence and suffering together at some points. Third, I don’t think that…
Now that we’ve looked at various critical issues about this passage, and I’ve discussed the dangers and difficulties involved with Biblical criticism, I’d like to summarize some of the things we can learn by examining the passage critically. We have identified a number of elements in the passage that have been strung together to form…
David Allen has an excellent series of posts on this passage (HT: David Alan Black), which I think is the key to the entire book. I am, of course, especially impressed with the fact that much of what he says is compatible with the way I believe the passage should be interpreted! Agree or disagree,…
I’m wondering if you’ve contemplated, in aid of understanding Ezekiel’s vision, doing a formal Ignatian Visualisatory prayer on the passage? I’ve contemplated this, following listening to you, and the first thing which occurs to me is not to attempt it without a spiritual director, preferably one immediately to hand. Ignatian prayer I find to be an extremely powerful technique, and it has on occasion resulted in a tactile apparition. That is not too much of a problem with most of the gospel passages which are commonly used, but could be rather more exciting than I’d prefer with this kind of graphic vision passage.
I hadn’t contemplated such an activity, and even was momentarily stumped by the name. I think you’re much more familiar with spiritual practices than I am. I came to this point through a very intellectual approach. Even my discussion of the vision state started with an observation about someone else’s supposed state, and not something I knew from experience.
Ezekiel 1 was, however, somewhat of a turning point for me, and has led to where I would say I take an initially intellectual approach but now seasoned by more mystical experience. Oddly, I find myself much more able to communicate with those whose experience could be described as mystical.
And this comment itself, I think, shows my tendency to describe the swimming pool and the process of swimming rather than jumping in the water! 🙂