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[avonlea71]

Love's Enduring Courage - Love Comes Softly series.

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Ph. Ellen Davis

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From [the book of Job] above all others in scripture, we learn that the person in pain is a theologian of unique authority. The one who complains to God, pleads with God, rails at God, does not let God off the hook for a minute—she is at last admitted to a mystery. She passes through a door that only pain will open, and is thus qualified to speak of God in a way that others, whom we generally call more fortunate, cannot speak.

Ellen Davis, Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament

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"Often you can read an instructional manual or a textbook or whatever, without paying all that much attention. You skim your way through it to get to the heart of the matter. But you can't read poetry that way. Poetry slows you down. And anything in our world now that slows us down is to be valued and maybe as a gift and even a calling from God."

- Ellen Davis quoted in Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett

[jdavidstark]

2017 Stone-Campbell Journal Conference

2017 Stone-Campbell Journal Conference

Registration for the 2017 Stone-Campbell Journal Conference is now open. The 2017 meeting will be hosted by Johnson University in Knoxville, TN, and will focus on the theme of “Communicating the Old Testament.” This year’s conference marks the meeting’s 20th anniversary. The plenary lineup includes Ellen Davis (Duke Divinity School), Chris Heard (Pepperdine University), and Jason Bembry (Emmanuel…

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""The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer" by Wendell Berry" by On Being Studios

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Here Bauckham shows the breadth of his concerns, from the classical theological topics of freedom and hope to Christianity's conversation with Buddhism and modern secular culture. He is unafraid to point to the inadequacies of some aspects of traditional theology, while at the same time he offers a strong, distinctively biblical, Christian critique of contemporary culture. . . . These essays are lucid and mercifully free of technical jargon, suitable for experts and lay theologians alike.

Ellen Davis on The Bible in the Contemporary World by Richard Bauckham

[mountolympuschurch]

Ecclesiastes

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This week we come to the book of Ecclesiastes.  People reading the Bible for the first time are often thrown when they read this book.  Indeed, it stirs much thinking.  Here are some things people have said about the book:

“...a John-the Baptist kind of book...”  Eugene Peterson

Derek Kidner says there are two ways of reading Ecclesiastes. 1) The “preachers” debate within himself where he is torn between what he sees and what he still can’t help believing. 2)a challenge to people of the world to think their place and position through to the bitter end, with a view to seeking something with more meaning and of substance.  In this way, Ecclesiastes is a critique of secularism.

“...despair arises out of circumstances of plenty rather than deprivation...”  Walker Percy

“...a profound reminder of the limits of being human.  Ecclesiastes sets forth the inevitable consequences of a life without God at the center...”  Philip Yancey

Ellen Davis notes what Gregory of Nyssa said about how greed is a disease.  “...no society in history has had so much opportunity to indulge its greed as does the modern industrialized West....the perpetual desire for more does not derive from enjoyment of what we already have.  Although Madison Avenue would flatter us into believing taht our capacity for pleasure is infinite, the fact of the matter is that we are often bored by the good things of this world”  (cf. Ecc. 1:8).

Like the book...it makes you think.