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2015-04-03T16:36:08-06:00

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Learning to Talk Like Tina Fey

Last updated on: April 3, 2015 at 4:36 pm By K. Mulhern

Today I read a review of Rachel Held Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womanhood, her account of spending a year trying to “take all of the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible.” This has her end up calling her husband “master,” keeping her mouth shut in church, and staying in a pup tent during her period. I have not read the book. All this I learn from the back cover. I did read the review, though Pastor Guyton,... Read more

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2012-10-30T16:20:46-06:00

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Why, Today, I Am Still a Protestant

Last updated on: October 30, 2012 at 4:20 pm By K. Mulhern

Tomorrow is Reformation Day, the day on which, 495 years ago Martin Luther posted his Facebook protest. Er, I mean, Wittenberg protest. I remember many years ago hearing a chapel talk that was supposed to be on the glories of the Reformation, but was instead a reflection in the tragedy of the Reformation. That speaker was not-so-gently chided about his point of view. As a church historian of sorts, I’ve circled around these ideas for some time. Glories? Tragedies? Hopefully... Read more

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2015-04-03T16:36:45-06:00

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What Difference Does It Make?: The Kaleidoscope Effect

Last updated on: April 3, 2015 at 4:36 pm By K. Mulhern

For the better part of a year, I’ve been working on understanding a book and a doctrine that, shall we admit, are not “bestsellers.” In fact, one of my readers very softly commented: “It was a long and complicated series, and I’m afraid that the truly interested layman ‘in all the details’ might be hard to find. I found a lot of it very, very interesting, and I certainly had no conception that the Trinity could possibly generate that much... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-18T16:10:38-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 27: The End?

Last updated on: October 18, 2012 at 4:10 pm By K. Mulhern

We’ve come to Anatolios’ conclusion, a chapter rich with ideas and summaries. I could have drawn this out for several more posts, but I became quite “Julian” in my threeness, wanting the series to have twenty-seven posts, no more, no less. So let’s oh-so-briefly look at the final comments Anatolios makes that might suggest ways of moving into “a creative retrieval of Nicene Trinitarian faith.” Revelation In the glorious Trinity, we recognize a God who has revealed himself –... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-10T16:33:02-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 26: True Love

Last updated on: October 10, 2012 at 4:33 pm By K. Mulhern

Last week we addressed Augustine’s “psychological model” of the Trinitarian image: memory, knowledge, and will. Maybe that worked for you; maybe it didn’t. But Augustine had another model that you might find more compelling. It’s called a “social model” of the Trinity, and it begins and spins in love. When Augustine begins his quest for understanding the Trinity, he looks at the imago dei echo in our own lives. Thus, the operations of memory, knowledge,... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-10T16:33:56-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 25: Source Code

Last updated on: October 10, 2012 at 4:33 pm By K. Mulhern

Our friend Augustine, trying to understand the Three-in-One God whom we worship, resorted to Source Code material. May Augustine forgive me for using a modern pap movie to talk about his great theological arguments. You needn’t see the movie—it won’t help you understand the Trinity. But sometimes weird ideas pop up in science fiction that can shed light on mysteries. Let me tell you all you need to know about the movie for our purposes: [spoiler alert] Jake Gyllenhaal plays... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-17T16:04:34-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 24: A Julian Diversion

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:04 pm By K. Mulhern

Augustine is going to take us on a deep, inner journey to the center of the soul, there to look for shadows of the Trinitarian image, and from that vision to return to the greater vision of the One who is Three. We are made in God’s image (imago dei), and we are called to be like Christ (imago Christi). Our origin and our destiny are imprinted with the divine. How great is the love the Father has lavished... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-17T16:05:34-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 23: A Christ Sighting

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:05 pm By K. Mulhern

“We want to see Jesus,” they said (Jn. 12.21). This request, from a group of anonymous Greeks who had come to Jerusalem, triggered Jesus’ awareness that “the hour has come.” Augustine, too, recognizes the essential need to see Jesus. In his exploration of scripture, Augustine finds a steady engagement of God with creation through signs and theophanies throughout the Old Testament, culminating in the singular Sign and ultimate Theophany: Christ. If, then, Christ is the zenith of divine presence, the... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-17T16:06:58-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 22: Christodrama and the Human Journey

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:06 pm By K. Mulhern

Our last great voice of this series is St. Augustine, the great Western thinker and writer who died in north Africa as the Vandals attacked the city gates. Here is one of those individuals in history who got in the talent line more than once. His ability to think clearly about complex ideas, to express deeply spiritual truths in compelling ways, to pastor and lead a congregation, to pray and imagine beyond the horizons, to probe his own... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-17T16:12:50-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 21: The Trinity Is the Gospel

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:12 pm By K. Mulhern

This picture is a famous depiction of Christ as Pantocrator, i.e., Christ in Majesty, Ruler of All. It is one of the earliest images of Jesus in the Church. The mystery that the Church proclaimed was that the carpenter’s son- itinerant rabbi-controversial leader-healer-miracle worker-prophetic voice-crucified Roman victim was actually Lord Almighty, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Pretty audacious claim. A few weeks ago I was in Ephesus, and my “interlude” blogpost referred to the Council of Ephesus... Read more

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