@TheDaveHerman I have only read MacDonald’s “The Princess and the Goblin” and a dozen or so sermons. Just saw this podcast’s recent series on MacDonald’s “Lilith” and listened to the first episode, so that’s moved up on my reading list. https://t.co/apo59fer0n
@dwcongdon Taught the Reformation in APEuro the past couple weeks. My students have little connection w Xianity, so providing context is key. This time, I was struck by how regularly conflict centers on the Eucharist. 1054 schism, 1529 @ Marburg, & today w RCs & LWF despite the 1999 JDDJ.
Philosophy Friends: I am very excited to release the latest episode for #TheYoungIdealist Series On Classical German Philosophy: Rudolf Bultmann on Theology, Philosophy, & Demythologizing the Bible featuring: Dr. David Congdon. @dwcongdon@Bultmann_eV https://t.co/NcbyZzu2jn
@dwcongdon I was going to ask what postliberal missiology looked like on a post you made above where you discuss their rejection of translation, but here it is.
@maklelan Genuinely interested in what you make of Ex 13:1, 11–16 & its relation to Ex 22:29. Ex 4:21–26 is interesting too w the LORD almost killing Moses’s firstborn, stopping only after his son receives the sign of the covenant by Zipporah. Sacrifice, yes, but redemption overrides this?
His persecution narrative is really significant. He then checks enough theological boxes (given one ignores much) to pass muster, especially regarding the Bible. All of a sudden, you have an Evangelical superhero who took on the Nazis, with violence to boot! Again, ignoring much.
I think there is enough there in Bonhoeffer for many conservative Evangelicals to hang onto. Now, this requires much cherry-picking, distortion, and ignoring quite a bit of Bonhoeffer’s own words. His view of Scripture is a good example.
Oh, and while “Creation and Fall” is not a Creationist reading, at this point, we are likely too far down the reading list or from the plot against Hitler to interesting most. If you read all of Bonhoeffer, he’s simply not an Evangelical. But that takes time, effort, and honesty.
@MattThiessenNT @dwcongdon If they do, which I think depends on who we are talking about—if they even know who Barth is, Bonhoeffer can get you everything you need from Barth theologically/spiritually and doesn’t have the baggage of having been a socialist.
@collincornell1 I think his contrast of a forensic orientation w/ a metaphysical one makes sense given the reformers emphasis on imputed righteousness over infused righteousness. I don’t hear much in those terms lately, but this cashes out in soteriological divisions over anthroposis vs theosis.