Full product information for this item, together with my review, my rating of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. One popular dictionary of classical music refers to Béla Bartók’s ‘driving, anxious rhythms, angular melodies, brackingly sharp dissonances, and folklike modal harmonies’. All of which to say, Bartok does not make [...]
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sobriety: Titus 2
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, textures, Titus on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sobriety is in the little New Testament book of Titus a response to penultimacy.
real estate in siege time: Jeremiah 31-32
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Jeremiah, textures on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It would be difficult to uncover a biblical passage more densely constructed with the elements of hope than the ‘new covenant’ chapters of the book of Jeremiah. With good reason chapters 30-33 are sometimes styled the ‘book of comfort’. With less justification did classic 20th-century biblical criticism separate this section from the work of the [...]
to cruise or to tour, that’s the question
Posted in paterfamilias, tagged motorcycles on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Two or three years ago, my eldest son and longest arrow began to obsess on getting a motorcyle. It seemed to his mother and me a very bad idea. Then, in a crystalline moment of letting go, of grace, of letting life happen, it occured to me that there was a better way than resisting [...]
the stilled soul: Philippians 4
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Philippians, textures on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Simplicity is the path to the deepest treasures. Religious technique is brushed to the margins when essential virtues are in play. Take peace, for example. Though we blunder about in search of it at many levels, Paul directs words of iconic simplicity to that peace which places the individual human heart at rest: Do not [...]
blind leads blind: Isaiah 42
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Isaiah, textures on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Arguably the most astonishing feature of the biblical meta-narrative is Yahweh’s penchant for employing unqualified agents in the execution of his finest work. Some texts articulate this as the means of assuring that Yahweh alone receives the glory of the outcome, a matter that causes no embarrassment to biblical aesthetics. Others simply record the fact, [...]
the moderated life: Philippians 3
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Philippians, textures on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A strong habit of mind suggests that you cannot command love and you cannot command joy. One enjoys no mandate over one’s feelings. What one feels, according to this usually unquestioned view, simply is what it is. To attempt control over the nature and course of one’s emotions is to spit into the wind. Worse, [...]
our contentious days: Philippians 2
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Philippians, textures on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is at least curious and more likely significant that the apostle Paul lodges such a pragmatic exhortation in the framework of a theological reflection upon Christ’s intelligent, self-aware humiliation: Do all things without murmuring and arguing. Paul’s argument is rich with counter-cultural nuance. It stands on its head the accepted, prudent, self-evident consensus about [...]
infinity meets tenderness: Isaiah 40
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Isaiah, textures on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It may be that only those who know their weakness can profit from a discourse on strength. It is plausible that only those who have stumbled badly, wilted under an unwavering sun, exhausted all illusion of self-empowerment can embrace the notion of divine sovereignty over their wretched, torn lives. It may be that prophetic literature [...]
the aftertaste of bitterness: Isaiah 38-40
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Isaiah, textures on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Though the move from exile to ‘consolation’ in the complex plot of the book called Isaiah is signaled in chapter 35, the door swings all the way open on its hinges in chapter 40.
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