Tonight I was at a campus function where the guest speaker, seeking to motivate the students, said a remarkable thing. We are the only creatures that God created who are restless, we are the only creatures who have ambition. …It is part of our having been made in the image […]
Genesis
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You know there are times when I get really frustrated and a wee bit depressed because there is just not enough time. I love my job as an administrator and the work that I do but it means I have very little time for reading blogs and even less for […]
Today I want to continue my running commentary on Genesis, moving on to the second creation account, beginning at Gen. 2:4. It is usual at this point to comment on where the second narrative begins. Gen. 2.4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were […]
As immediately recognizable R. Crumb’s work is to me, I cannot say that I know much about him. Apparently, however, his various isms are well documented. I and many other bibliobloggers have been linked by J. K. Gayle at the blog “Aristotle’s Feminist Subject.” bibliobloggers on Robert Crumb: few mentions […]
I have mentioned before that we have a couple of conferences on climate change coming up at Penn State. One that we as the honors college are hosting and one that I as a scholar and clergy am participating in. The former is “Educating for Sustainability” and the latter is “Stewardship […]
My previous post generated a series of hearty responses from Alan Lenzi (whom I am sorry to see will no longer be blogging). He has a number of good points which I do not have the time or desire to address individually, it has been a very busy week with […]
I have just now seen that Alan Lenzi has called me out for avoiding “the M word” (HT to Simon Holloway) To quote him in full, since it is a short note: If you can’t use the m-word for Genesis 1-2, then you’ve unduly privileged the Bible. It’s simply not […]
As I (finally) begin to write about the character and nature of God as found in Genesis 1 I realize that I have written extensively about this topic in a slightly different context. “Characters of God” was a post from two and a half years ago and is a first […]
Daniel McClellan has been following and contributing to our discussion of Genesis 1 on his own blog and today posted some thoughts on where he places Genesis 1. In my mind, contextualization is one of the best interpretive keys in questions like this. The more we know about the context […]
Introductory comment to an introductory comment: I am attempting to return to our discussion of the creation narratives of Genesis… (And be sure to follow John Hobbins’ riffs off of my comments. I feel like I am in a jazz duo, it is really very invigorating!) But along the way […]