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A Pitiful Anonymous // Enjoyer of: Theology, Biblical Studies, Eschatology, Philosophy and Mythology 📚

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🧵A Thread of My Threads:

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Thanks I guess

[John ♰☭️ @hoosier_cs]

#ProtWatch

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@pwhhjr Link?

[Katapetasma @Katapetasma2]

Believing that God is trustworthy to keep His promises, and that Jesus was a reliable messenger of the kingdom, is not equivalent to believing in inerrancy. The NT writers are clearly grappling (in the spirit) with how best to understand what has happened and what was said.

[☦︎ andy orthodox @latinizedlogos]

the only christianity that really has any right to exist or should be tolerated by a just society is one that is willing to criticize its own history.

[Museum @DailyClassicArt]

Gustave Doré - "Satan looking at the garden of Eden" (1866)

[Katapetasma @Katapetasma2]

"Scripture interprets scripture" just means "My favorite scriptures, or my favored theological system, overule disruptive scriptures."

Early Christianity was, from its inception, theologically diverse.

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the myth of sisyphus

[𝖝𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖊 🪐 @xeriesjame_art]

I push a boulder uphill in the pouring rain

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@pwhhjr That is a virtue of all beautiful cats

[Josh @LexDecs]

I always forget he said that. Dang.

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

No one should be ordained priest without some solid knowledge of philosophy besides theology. How can they possibly perform their ‘clerical’ task otherwise? This is more needed today than before, because almost everyone is influenced by pop philosophy in some sense or other.

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@m966021 What else do you expect from “Anglican Aesthetics”

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@pwhhjr Gibbon

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20/ The enduring importance of the Historical Jesus debate lies in what it reveals about the nature of religious knowledge itself. It forces us to confront difficult questions concerning history, memory, interpretation, revelation, doctrine, and the relationship between faith and historical inquiry. 🧵

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1/ One of the most important distinctions in modern biblical scholarship is the distinction between the “Historical Jesus” and the “Christ of Dogma.” Contrary to popular misconceptions, this distinction did not originate as an attack on Christianity but as an attempt to understand the relationship between history, memory, theology, and tradition. 🧵

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19/ Many contemporary theologians argue that the Christ of Dogma should not be viewed as a corruption of the historical Jesus but as the Church’s ongoing attempt to articulate the significance of Jesus in light of resurrection faith and communal experience.