new creation

Is that third horizon just a mirage?

Posted Tue, 12/05/2009 - 12:24 by andrew

Mike Morrell has articulated a good question about the thesis of The Coming of the Son of Man and Re: Mission. It comes down to this: Given the metaphorical potential of biblical language, what keeps us from deflating all apparently final language to historical proportions? Or more crudely: Why not ‘go the full preterist route’? By what criteria do we decide that in some contexts the language of cosmic transformation is figurative and in other contexts literal? This is how he sums it up…

New creation in Paul and scripture: a response to John Doyle

Posted Thu, 03/07/2008 - 15:11 by andrew

John Doyle has now summarized his excellent set of studies of the ‘new creation’ motif in Paul. He claims to have embarked on this course at least partly as a self-defensive response to a piece I had written on the Canaanite ‘genocide’, so I hope a courteous rejoinder is not out of place.

Surprised by Hope: facebook, parousia and new creation

Posted Tue, 24/06/2008 - 20:52 by andrew

I was recently invited to join a Facebook group named ‘Initiative For Every Pastor To Read "Surprised By Hope" Before Easter 2009’, whose laudable objectives are defined as follows:

This group is for those who commit to doing everything in their power to encourage/force/entice/trick every pastor they know to read Surprised By Hope by N.T. Wright before Easter 2009.

This group is for all who can not sit through another Easter sermon by Pastor Frank Gospelman or Reverend Jeremy Smoothtongue….

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