Tag: new creation
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The Active Life – 8. “Threatened With Resurrection”: Acts of Death or New Life. Parker Palmer
Today we come to the eighth and final chapter in Parker Palmer's The Active Life: A Spirituality of Creativity, Work, and Caring, titled "' Threatened With Resurrection': Acts of Death or New Life." The Horizons of Action In this final chapter, Palmer offers insight into the meaning of resurrection. He opens by reminding us that…
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C. Wright’s End of the World (Part 3)
The New Beginning is the final chapter in Christopher Wright's The God I Don't Understand. We saw in an earlier post that Wright subscribes to N. T. Wright's characterization of "life after life after death." Heaven is a "transit lounge" on the way to the new creation. So what can we say about the new…
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C. Wright’s End of the World
Over the last couple of years, I've been trying to coherently articulate my thoughts for some writing I want to do about the Kingdom of God and the New Creation at Christ's consummation. Not being a professional theologian and knowing what a vast minefield of issues is involved, I've approached this topic with considerable caution.…
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Imago Dei and the Material World (Part 4)
I closed my last post with the question, "How then does our work in this time of the Kingdom "already but not yet" have an eschatological impact?" The first way our work has an eschatological impact is through our daily work. Through our work, we are formed and transformed. We come into the world with…
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Shalom and the Possibilities of Being “Mission-Shaped”
Prodigal Kiwi: Shalom and the Possibilities of Being “Mission-Shaped” (Emphasis in the original.) I’ve been long inclined to place shalom near the very ‘heart’ of God’s mission, and thus to locate it at the centre of what it means for us to join in on God’s mission – we are bearers of shalom. How do…
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Household: Context for the Post-Resurrection Household of God
We are finished with Jesus' use of fictive family. In the coming posts, I will focus on the post-Resurrection Church. Before going there, I think it might be helpful to reset the stage. We have looked at the nature of the Greco-Roman household. Patriarchy, patronage, honor, and status were driving cultural influences. The Roman Empire…
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Do You Believe in Miracles?
I am not the most rabid sports fan in the world, but I like watching an occasional game. I like cheering for the hometown team, and I like cheering for the underdog. Of course, if you live in Kansas City like I do, cheering for the hometown teams usually means cheering for the underdog. Still,…