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- 1. Statements create debates that bring us to new a state (or status). ! ? Questions create conversations that launch us on new quests.
- 2. From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring. The place where we are right Is hard and trampled Like a yard. But doubts and loves Dig up the world Like a mole, a plow. And a whisper will be heard in the place Where the ruined House once stood. Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai
- 3. Question 1: What is the shape of the biblical narrative? (A pre-critical question)
- 5. Eden Heaven Fall Salvation History/ The world Hell
- 6. Platonic Ideal Platonic Ideal Fall Atonement, purification Into Aristotelian Aristotelian Real Real Hades
- 7. Pax Romana Pax Romana Civilization, Rebellion development, into colonialism barbarism Barbarian/ assimilation pagan world Destruction, defeat
- 9. sdrawkcab gnidaer Rick Warren, Billy Graham, Charles Finney, John Wesley (or Calvin), Luther, Aquinas, Augustine, Paul, Jesus reading forwards Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus
- 10. Exodus: Liberation & Formation
- 11. Exodus: Liberation & Formation Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation
- 12. Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy Exodus: Liberation & Formation Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation
- 13. G e Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and n Mercy e s i s Exodus: Liberation & Formation
- 14. HUMAN DESTRUCTION G e Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and n Mercy e HUMAN VIOLENCE s i s HUMAN EXPLOITATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation
- 15. HUMAN DESTRUCTION G e Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and n Mercy e HUMAN VIOLENCE s i s HUMAN EXPLOITATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation
- 16. Reading Paul in light of Jesus: Acts 28:23 ff: “the kingdom of God ... and Jesus.” “the kingdom of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans: “to the Jew first and also to the Greek ...” Galatians 3:7 ff Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
- 21. Question 2: The Bible Question What is the Bible? Or: What is it for?
- 22. The Bible as Constitution • What purposes do constitutions (or social contracts) fulfill? • What problems arise with this approach?
- 23. Bible as Conversation • The Bible as a cultural library • Artifacts from stories within stories
- 24. LEGAL CONSTITUTION COMMUNITY LIBRARY Uniformity Diversity Preserve order Preserve diversity agreement argument enforcement encouragement
- 25. LEGAL CONSTITUTION COMMUNITY LIBRARY Rules to live by Stories to live by Conformity Creativity Analyze, interpret, argue Enter, inhabit, practice amendments? new acquisitions
- 26. Inspiration • what would an inspired constitution look like? • what would an inspired community library look like?
- 27. Question 3: The God Question Is God violent? Why does God seem so violent in many Bible passages?
- 28. Revelation 19 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
- 29. Revelation 19 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
- 30. Revelation 11:15 ff The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord an of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.”