Posts Tagged logos
Church Fathers on Universalism
Posted by Joel in Church Fathers on November 9, 2009
‘Fire and Brimestone’ has not always been a part of Christianity. Deep inside, I suspect that many today remain hopeful for universalism, but hold to the doctrines of Hell. It is interesting to note that as part and parcel with the development of the Logos Christology of Justin Martyr, and the 3rd century Alexandrians, that the idea of an eventual restoration of all things developed as well.
In the Mail, Gorgeous from Gorgias
Posted by Joel in Book Review, Origen on October 14, 2009
I would like to thank the kind folks at Gorgias press for this review copy,
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If, as Origen believed, humanity’s hope for salvation has been answered by a divine Word, whose coming into the world has unfolded history according to a messianic intrigue, Origen’s messianic reading of world history as a soteriological discourse should not come as a surprise. How does Origen refer to this discourse? As a speech that spells the coming Word, this discourse would have to be soteriological in its very wording, it would have to happen soteriologically. The Word’s historical unfolding would have to be approached as a gospel, a good-news or a revelatory speech event, which, literally, spells salvation. Receiving this messianic Word would necessarily imply the believer’s application to the study of the Bible as Gospel. The task of this study is twofold. In addition to offering a detailed analysis of Origen’s understanding of exegesis as a liturgical attending to the Word’s evangelic advent in the Bible (a sort of textual redoubling of the incarnation), it also addresses a recent concern regarding the totalizing potential of Origen’s Logos-centered reading of history as evangelic or Christian. One may indeed wonder whether Origen’s exegetical spelling of the Word as universal Gospel can prevent the silencing of the speech of, let us say, the Greek or the Jew outside of Christianity? Ultimately, one may wonder whether it is possible to dissociate Origen’s Christian understanding of the Bible-incarnate Word from the totalizing rigor of a universalist metaphysics and what would be the consequences of such an attempt.
Latin Features in Bibleworks 8
Posted by Joel in Media Review, Technology on September 2, 2009
The English language is nothing without the Latin backdrop. Indeed, our theological language is nothing without Latin, so in a recent conversation about the ‘Incarnation,’ in which someone tried to separate manifestation from Incarnation, claiming that it was not biblical:
The Baha’i concept of Manifestation would match this perfectly, one doesn’t need incarnation which is unbiblical.
BibleWorks 8 in the Classroom
Posted by Joel in Media Review, Technology on August 19, 2009
Due to my recent technological troubles, I’ve had a difficult time in getting back to reviewing BibleWorks.
The Search Feature with BibleWorks 8
Posted by Joel in Media Review, Technology on July 21, 2009
This is part of a rolling review of BibleWorks 8.
One of the features of BW8 is the search function. You can limit your search function to just one translation, or several translations, or the entire library of that language.
