Tag: creation mandate
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Reconciliation is not the core mission of the people of God – Redux
Last week I published a post, Reconciliation is not the core task of the people of God. It highlighted an excerpt from Armand Larvie's book After Sunday and stimulated some great discussion. This post is a more detailed presentation of my point of view. Here is my thesis: The primary mission of the people of…
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Reconciliation is not the core task of the people of God
I've recently been reading After Sunday: A Theology of Work by Episcopal priest Armand Larive. I'm presently in Chapter Three, where he identifies how theology has developed in a way that blocks us from seeing the importance of work. He is spelling out what needs to be altered to open space for a theology of…
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Best of It: The Story and the Mission (Part 5)
[Series Index] The last half of Chapter Six in John Stackhouse's Making the Best of It is titled "Mission: The Four Commandments." Stackhouse identifies two sets of commandments. Creation Commandments: The cultural mandate and the great commandments. Redemption Commandments: The new commandment and the Great Commission. Today we start with the first of the Creation…