Laudate

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The fourth prevailing theme is that in the resurrection of Christ, humanity is given hope for Gods radical new creation. One should note, especially in view of the prevailing thinking today, especially regarding the future of the world to be either a freeze or fry scenario, that in the resurrection of Jesus, there was both continuity and discontinuity in his post-resurrection body. This fact gives credence to the notion that our resurrection bodies– and the new creation– might hold a semblance of what we have known, but they will be radically different as well.

Bradford McCall, Regent University

Review of Cosmology: From Alpha to Omega–The Creative Mutual Interaction of Theology and Science, Robert John Russell, Fortress, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-8006-6273-8), xi + 344 pp.

Reviews in Religion and Theology, 16:2 (2009)

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Finally, Robert Russell (2008) argues that the potential conflict might be resolved by appealing to God’s omnipotence and freedom to perform miracles: the future of the universe would have been what science predicts had God not decided to act at Easter and bring about, and will continue to bring about, the new creation. This view is allegedly not in conflict with science, but only with the philosophical assumption that the events predicted by science must happen, and this assumption Russell sees no reason to accept.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Nov 16, 2021

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In the scene of Jesus and Mary in the garden, [she] is supposing that [he] is the gardener, as indeed he is. He is now making all things new. He is doing so in himself, as the first fruits of new creation. Through his new authority, he is bringing new creation to life all around him.

N. T. Wright: Broken Signposts, 2020

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Once true love´s scented veil about my head you cast

Then every gesture of your hands, 

Each tender movement of your limbs,

Does leave my soul bereft of sense. 

Can you catch it when it flutters?

When each tiny gentle movement

Traces deep down in my heart it marks.

When morning makes its bells to ring

The gardener walks through his garden realm

Walking on tiptoe on the earth he owns

And every flower awakes and wondering stares

Up at that shining, tranquil face.

Who was it, then, that wove around your feet

That veil whose touch we feel like gossamer?

Is the wind´s breeze, too, at your beck and call?

Is it the spider´s, or the silkworm´s work?

L. Wittgenstein: Nachlass

Translation: Anthony Kenny

 The poem is not easy to interpret, without knowledge of the original circumstances of its composition and presentation. Clearly, however, the principal theme is the veil that love casts over the relationship between a lover and a beloved. The poem ends with the question whether that veil is an adornment (the work of the silkworm) or a trap (the work of the spider)? ... I conjecture that the passage may be intended to invite us to recall the twentieth chapter of the fourth gospel in which Mary Magdalen encounters the risen Jesus early on the morning of the first day of the week. ... The reference in Wittgenstein´s poem to the early morning, to the church bells, to the gardener with supernatural powers all fit this association: they call up an image of many a renessance Noli me Tangere.

Anthony Kenny: The Unknown God, p. 214-216

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Noli Me Tangere, 1442, Fra Angelico

Medium: fresco,wall

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Wittgenstein: “I seem to be surrounded now by Roman Catholic converts! I don’t know whether they pray for me. I hope they do.”