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2018-04-21T06:29:12-07:00

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Don’t Despair on Heartbreak Hill. Run with Endurance.

Last updated on: April 21, 2018 at 6:29 am By Paul Louis Metzger

I have heard reports of how difficult it is to run Heartbreak Hill at the Boston Marathon. (Refer to “Just How Bad Is Heartbreak Hill?”) Appearing at mile 20, it comes late in the race. Runners need to prepare well for this leg of the journey so they can make it the rest of the way. While the writer of Hebrews does not have Boston’s Heartbreak Hill in mind, the author is thinking about a race involving a grueling obstacle... Read more

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2018-04-18T11:51:06-07:00

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Muscular Apologetics and the Suffering God

Last updated on: April 18, 2018 at 11:51 am By Paul Louis Metzger

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s[1] posthumously published work Letters and Papers from Prison receives mixed reviews from various quarters, including Evangelical Christians. I do not think it is only ‘death-of-God’ interpretive moves by liberals like Bishop John A.T. Robinson, William Hamilton, Thomas J.J. Altizer and others, or his associations with neo-orthodox and liberal theological figures,[2] that lead to Evangelical wariness in many quarters. Given our particular theo-political imagination and Weltanschauung,[3] we also struggle with Bonhoeffer’s affirmation of the Christian God as weak, secular... Read more

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2018-04-14T19:20:46-07:00

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Faith Alone Does Not Mean You Have to Go It Alone

Last updated on: April 14, 2018 at 7:20 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

I grew up in a Protestant tradition that took seriously Luther’s declaration “faith alone.” We are saved by faith alone, and not by faith plus works. Luther did not deny the importance of works. Good works flow from union with Jesus through faith in God’s Word as God’s love is poured out into our hearts through the Spirit. Just as Luther did not deny works with his emphasis on faith alone, he did not deny the importance of the Christian... Read more

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2018-04-09T14:15:48-07:00

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If You Could Be God, What Kind of God Would You Be?

Last updated on: April 9, 2018 at 2:15 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

If you could be God, what kind of God would you be? A God of power like Zeus, or of heathen revelry like Dionysus? Would you ever consider becoming the God who becomes a lowly neighbor who is pushed off history’s stage with all who are marginalized? While Nietzsche’s version of Dionysus is not given to debauchery, but tragic heroism, nonetheless, the will to power doctrine entails that his Dionysus contends against Jesus, the crucified Messiah, who is the lowly... Read more

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2020-01-20T16:01:39-08:00

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Dr King Speaks Today. Are We Listening?

Last updated on: January 20, 2020 at 4:01 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

In his Vietnam War sermon titled “Beyond Vietnam” delivered on April 4, 1967—one year to the day of his assassination (April 4, 1968), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of the need to move from a culture of things to a culture of persons. King was a personalist by upbringing and by formal education. In the definitive work on King’s personalist orientation, God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rufus Burrow, Jr. writes... Read more

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2018-04-02T10:34:14-07:00

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Bourgeois Theology and Jesus’ Kingdom Come of Age

Last updated on: April 2, 2018 at 10:34 am By Paul Louis Metzger

As radical and as progressive as they were in their historical contexts, Kant, Hegel and Schleiermacher may appear to many today as bourgeois, defenders of the status quo in Germanic philosophy and theology (Refer to these posts on Kant, Hegel, and Schleiermacher). Who might the “many” be, or include? In a footnote to my recent Schleiermacher post, I reference Gary Dorrien’s discussion of Gustavo Gutiérrez’sassessment of progressivist theology. Here is Dorrien: The disjuncture between liberationist and progressivist theologies is revealed,... Read more

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2018-03-31T07:30:58-07:00

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Jesus’ Victory Doesn’t End on Easter. It Lasts Forever.

Last updated on: March 31, 2018 at 7:30 am By Paul Louis Metzger

Jesus’ victory doesn’t end on Easter. It lasts forever. Just ask the author of Hebrews who encouraged his congregation enduring suffering not to give up but persevere. Their reward awaits them and will last forever in view of Jesus’ lasting work on their behalf. Hebrews 7-10 get at various aspects of how resilient and everlasting God’s saving work on their behalf really is. First, Jesus’ priesthood is eternal. It does not belong to the Aaronic order, but to the order... Read more

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2018-03-26T12:07:14-07:00

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Schleiermacher and Us: Focused on Religion’s Cultured Despisers, or Those Despised by the Cultured?

Last updated on: March 26, 2018 at 12:07 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

In “Evangelical Theology in the 19th Century,” Karl Barth writes, “There is hardly any doubt that the distinctive beginnings of 19th-century theology coincide with the publication of Schleiermacher’s book, On Religion, Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers in 1799.”[1] T. F. Torrance claims that perhaps the principal characteristic trait of this movement was the conviction “that theology and even biblical exegesis could only be pursued within the framework of the accepted or prevailing Weltanschauung or a generally intelligible view of the... Read more

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2018-03-20T10:38:37-07:00

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On Hegel: If the Real Is the Rational, How Real Are You?

Last updated on: March 20, 2018 at 10:38 am By Paul Louis Metzger

I appreciate Hegel’s effort to unite the disparate domains in Kant’s philosophy. To repeat a quotation I used last week, Kant’s system leaves human beings in a precarious situation: How is freedom to be instantiated or to take effect in the world of nature, if the latter is governed by causality and mechanistically determined by the laws of nature? How is the causality of the natural world reconcilable with what Kant calls ‘the causality of freedom’? How, to allude to... Read more

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2018-03-19T06:54:47-07:00

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Hebrews—Jesus Is a Faithful High Priest, Unlike Vampires. Hold Fast in Faith.

Last updated on: March 19, 2018 at 6:54 am By Paul Louis Metzger

The Book of Hebrews presents Jesus as a faithful high priest who offered himself up as a spotless lamb of sacrifice whose blood was shed to atone for us and cleanse us of our sins. In response to this claim, some readers of this post may be asking, “OK, so what?” High priests. Lambs of sacrifice. Blood. It may prove difficult for many people today to see the need for Jesus as a faithful high priest who offers himself up... Read more

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