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God And The Gaps, Ross W. Mccullough
God And The Gaps, Ross W. Mccullough
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Excerpt: "Most often the story is told like this: There is some feature of the world that science is at a loss to explain. Christians rush to claim that this feature can only be explained by God. Science later produces probable non-theistic hypotheses, and the Christians must beat a hasty retreat. In the early nineteenth century, the feature was the complexity of life, the scientific explanation Darwinian evolution."
Vocation As Parish: The Missional Possibilities Of Inhabiting Your Workplace, Anderson Campbell
Vocation As Parish: The Missional Possibilities Of Inhabiting Your Workplace, Anderson Campbell
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
No abstract provided.
The Darkling Lights Of Lucifer: Annihilation, Tradition, And Hell, Ross W. Mccullough
The Darkling Lights Of Lucifer: Annihilation, Tradition, And Hell, Ross W. Mccullough
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Gregory of Nyssa is famous for defending both the doctrine of epektasis, the continual ascent of the blessed toward God, and, in places, the doctrine of apokatastasis, the eventual restoration to God of all creation, including the Devil. This is a curious conjunction, for while Gregory connects them more than adventitiously, the tradition of the Eastern Church has largely received the former and rejected the latter.1 The point of this essay is to follow that intuition, not to say inspiration, of the tradition: briefly to challenge Gregory's conjunction and to develop from that challenge and with certain currents in philosophy …
Mother And Son, Mark S. Mcleod-Harrison
Mother And Son, Mark S. Mcleod-Harrison
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
No abstract provided.
Incidents Dispersed In The Synoptics And Cohering In John: Dodd, Brown, And Johannine Historicity (Chapter Ten Of Engaging With C. H. Dodd On The Gospel Of John: Sixty Years Of Tradition And Interpretation), Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Excerpt: "Between C. H. Dodd’s two landmark magna opera on John, addressing the religious background behind and the historical tradition within the Fourth Gospel (1953; 1963), Raymond Brown published several essays in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, later appearing in his New Testament Essays.1 In doing so, Brown picks up where the appendix to Dodd’s first major work left off – the central subject that Dodd expanded in his second volume. Both Dodd and Brown challenged inferences that similarities between John and the Synoptics suggest John’s literary dependence upon one or more of the Synoptics, inferring instead John’s essential autonomy as …
Matthew 25:14-30 Exegetical Perspective, Paul N. Anderson
Matthew 25:14-30 Exegetical Perspective, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Excerpt: "The parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-30 provides continued instruction for believers living in the interim between first and second comings of the Son of Man (chaps. 24- 25). As one of several parables Matthew adds to Mark's apocalyptic discourse (Mark 13 ), the second of three parables in Matthew 25 bears the closest parallels with Luke (Luke 19:11-27). It also coheres with the master-servant parables and references elsewhere in Matthew: pray to the lord of the harvest so send forth laborers, 9:37-38; a servant will suffer as did his master, 10:25; laborers need not uproot the tares, …
Ugarit, Melissa Ramos
Ugarit, Melissa Ramos
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
In 1928 a Syrian peasant farmer stumbled by chance onto a funerary vault of ancient provenance about half a mile from the Mediterranean coastline of Syria and about six miles north of the modern-day city of Latakia. This unforeseen discovery led to an archaeological excavation ofTell Ras Shamra (Cape Fennel) by the eminent French excavator Claude Schaeffer. What Schaeffer's team unearthed was not merely an ancient tomb, but a city complete with palaces, private homes, temples, and streets paved with stone.
The Community That Raymond Brown Left Behind: Reflections On The Johannine Dialectical Situation, Paul N. Anderson
The Community That Raymond Brown Left Behind: Reflections On The Johannine Dialectical Situation, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Among the paradigm-making contributions in Johannine studies over the last half century, one of the most significant is the sketching of “the community of the Beloved Disciple” by Raymond E. Brown (Brown 1979). Extending beyond Johannine studies, Brown’s work on the history of early Christianity and “the churches the apostles left behind” (Brown 1984) is also among the most practical and interesting of his 47 books.1 Here, Brown’s analyses of the unity and diversity of early Christians’ approaches to leadership and community organization2 have extensive implications, not only to historical and sociological understandings of the first-century Christian movement, but also …
Philip: A Connective Figure In Polyvalent Perspective (Chapter In Character Studies In The Fourth Gospel), Paul N. Anderson
Philip: A Connective Figure In Polyvalent Perspective (Chapter In Character Studies In The Fourth Gospel), Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
While Philip plays no special role in the Synoptics, he plays more of a central role in the Fourth Gospel. Aside from references to Peter and the Beloved Disciple, Philip is mentioned in John more often (a dozen times) than any of the other followers of Jesus - either male or female. Interestingly, he plays a connective role in the narrative, and in several ways. At the outset of the Gospel, during the calling narrative, Philip plays the role of an intermediary, connecting Nathanael with Jesus (John 1:43-48). At the beginning of the feeding narrative, Philip is asked by Jesus …
Matthew 25:1-13 Exegetical Perspective, Paul N. Anderson
Matthew 25:1-13 Exegetical Perspective, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Excerpt: "The Gospel of Matthew presents a lucid and compelling portrait of Jesus as the Jewish Messiah for third-generation Christians. Having shown Jesus to be descended from David and Abraham (1:1), and fulfilling all righteousness (3:15), Matthew addresses followers of Jesus with such issues as the way of the kingdom (5:2- 16), the order of the church (18: 15-20), and the Great Commission (28:18-20). Along with John, Matthew was the great teaching Gospel of the early church, and it continues to be a favorite for discerning Christian living in every generation."
Matthew 25:31-46 Exegetical Perspective, Paul N. Anderson
Matthew 25:31-46 Exegetical Perspective, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Excerpt: "The parable of the Sheep and the Goats is one of the most moving, yet most vexing among the teachings of Jesus. Found only in Matthew, this parable concludes its final collection of Jesus' sayings in ways striking and disturbing. Over and against earlier emphases about being prepared for the unannounced coming of Christ, here the Son of Man sits as the heavenly judge of the gathered nations, along with his angels, dividing humanity between the sheep and the goats. The sheep, at his honoring right hand, will receive a heavenly welcome; the goats, at his dishonoring left, will …
Preface: Finnish Edition Of C.S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy, (Suomenkielisen Laitoksen Esipuhe, C. S. Lewis, Ilon Yllättämä), Jason Lepojärvi
Preface: Finnish Edition Of C.S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy, (Suomenkielisen Laitoksen Esipuhe, C. S. Lewis, Ilon Yllättämä), Jason Lepojärvi
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
No abstract provided.
The Fate And Power Of Heroic Bones And The Politics Of Bone Transfer In Ancient Israel And Greece, Brian R. Doak
The Fate And Power Of Heroic Bones And The Politics Of Bone Transfer In Ancient Israel And Greece, Brian R. Doak
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
No abstract provided.
Ezekiel’S Topography Of The (Un-)Heroic Dead In Ezekiel 32:17–32, Brian R. Doak
Ezekiel’S Topography Of The (Un-)Heroic Dead In Ezekiel 32:17–32, Brian R. Doak
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
This essay is an attempt to address several interpretive problems in Ezek 32:17–32 in light of religious ideas prominent in ancient Mediterranean expressions of hero cult. Previous studies have not adequately dealt with the richness of Ezekiel’s striking and unusual imagery in this passage, and I contend that a reading that more fully develops the meaning of Ezekiel’s presentation vis-à-vis the history of religious ideas regarding the power of the heroic dead is the most appropriate one in terms of Ezekiel’s overarching message in this chapter. I argue that Ezekiel’s invocation of ancient Israelite heroic traditions involving the Gibborim and …
Mark, John, And Answerability: Interfluentiality And Dialectic Between The Second And Fourth Gospels, Paul N. Anderson
Mark, John, And Answerability: Interfluentiality And Dialectic Between The Second And Fourth Gospels, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
No abstract provided.
The Jesus Of History, The Christ Of Faith, And The Gospel Of John, Paul N. Anderson
The Jesus Of History, The Christ Of Faith, And The Gospel Of John, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
No abstract provided.
Wolterstorff On Love And Justice: An Augustinian Response, Joseph Clair
Wolterstorff On Love And Justice: An Augustinian Response, Joseph Clair
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
In Justice in Love, Nicholas Wolterstorff argues for a unique ethical orientation called “care-agapism.” He offers it as an alternative to theories of benevolence-agapism found in Christian ethics on the one hand and to the philosophical orientations of egoism, utilitarianism, and eudaimonism on the other. The purported uniqueness and superiority of his theory lies in its ability to account for the conceptual compatibility of love and justice while also positively incorporating self-love. Yet in attempting to articulate a “bestowed worth” account of human dignity—in which dignity is given by divine love and respected in acts of justice—Wolterstorff leans on an …
Wahlde's "The Gospel And Letters Of John" - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson
Wahlde's "The Gospel And Letters Of John" - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
This revised dissertation (Catholic Theology Faculty, Tübingen) was written in conscious dialogue with the Vatican II documents on Jewish and Christian relations. Still, the volume has value for all scholars seeking more clearly to understand the Lukan and Pauline perspectives on the future of Israel. Schafer argues that both Paul and Luke, like most Jewish writers of their time, were deeply influenced by Deuteronomistic theology on the abiding, but conditional, nature of God’s covenant with Israel. According to Schafer, both Luke and Paul regarded the initial presence of a core group of Jewish believers within early Christianity as essential for …