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por invitación: hacia una teología en la práctica // towards a practiced theology

Posted in denkschrift, tagged on November 29, 2007| 3 Comments »

Tiempos atrás, la vida me otorgó la satisfacción de compartir aulas y espacios pastorales con un amigo y colega costarricense quien no ha flaqueado en mantener los lazos de la amistad desde mi emigración hacia la patria en 2004. Recientemente el mencionado Alexander Cabezas, ahora miembro imprescindible del equipo de Viva Juntos por la Niñez en Costa Rica, se permitió ventilar unos pensamientos que a este peregrino vivificaron el corazón. (more…)

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Reviewing Joseph Naveh, The Development of the Aramaic Script

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on November 18, 2007| 2 Comments »

Joseph Naveh’s classic work constitutes ‘an attempt to survey the Aramaic epigraphic material from its very beginnings until the third century B.C.E. It examines the development of the Aramaic script in its various styles on the basis of the dated inscriptions.’ (more…)

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getting more done: make sure you have a reason (David Allen, Getting Things Done)

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, tagged , , , on November 4, 2007| Leave a Comment »

For almost two years I have been weaving the principles and practices of David Allen’s Getting Things Done into, as Allen himself would call it, ‘the business of life and the art of work’.

I’ve read and re-read DA’s signature book as well as a second collection of the man’s thoughts, attended his one-day RoadMap conference in Manhattan, and subscribed to GTD Connect. (more…)

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schooling Daniel

Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, tagged , , on November 4, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Some human endeavors run stubbornly against statistical probability. Fishing, for example, or standing in to the batter’s box. Or training a Labrador puppy.

Reflecting this Autumn morning on the education of the biblical Daniel, I wince more strongly than ever at the short-horizoned pragmatism that pervades our view of preparation for Christian leadership today. A thoughtless consensus seems to make hay with the expense in terms of time and money of preparing such leaders through formal means. We think we ought to be batting about .950—though no one ever says that—and so we grow resentful and dismissive at, say, a solid .310. (more…)

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shared life: Philippians 1

Posted in denkschrift, tagged , , on October 5, 2007| Leave a Comment »

When the apostle Paul turns to address his much-loved friends in Philippi, the warmth of his rhetoric flows like the melting waters of Springtime. Gone is the parental indignation of Galatians, the costly renegotiation of wounded relationships that is never far away in his correspondence with the Corinthians.

In his letter to the Philippian Christians, Paul writes like a man who has come home. The sweet absence of drama flavors the exchange. (more…)

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managing the information explosion: Old Testament Abstracts

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged on September 25, 2007| Leave a Comment »

A peculiar joy mixes with the horror of realizing how daunting it is to keep up in the field of biblical studies as one peruses the thrice-yearly publication called Old Testament Abstracts. Published by the Catholic Biblical Association, Abstracts is a very handy tool for keeping abreast of the literature in a highly specialized field and making decisions about which abstracted publications to pursue and which dogs are better left to sleep. (more…)

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buy ten copies and give them to your friends: Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Friedman wraps up his book by talking about four dead men and what they must do if peace is to come to the troubled slice of land still fought over by Israelis and Palestinians. Yitzhak Rabin, Yasir Arafat, Hafez Assad, and Jordan’s King Hussein were very much alive a decade ago when Friedman wrote an appendix to this still-riveting work, though the shadow of Rabin’s assasin was almost upon him. This casts an eery veneer over Friedman’s sensible thoughts on shifting power and the need for all partners to ‘buy a ticket’ if peace has any hope of overcoming the region’s deeply etched pessimisms, even if one now needs to shift the burden of choice to the successors of these four men, only three of whom had the good fortune to die in their own beds. (more…)

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thoughtful primer on preaching from a master preacher: Elizabeth Achtemeier, Preaching from the Old Testament

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 20, 2007| 2 Comments »

The author of these thirty-two short chapters begins and ends with the assumption that problems we experience with the Old Testament are our problem, not the Bible’s. This subordination of the Bible reader to the well-weathered book he holds in his hand opens doors, not to forced harmonizations of problematic passages but to fresh reappraisal of difficult texts on their own terms. (more…)

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explicit methodology, for good and for ill: Peter D. Quinn-Miscall, Reading Isaiah. Poetry and Vision

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , , on September 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Perhaps it requires a breakdown of certainties and ‘assured results’ like the one that has reigned in Isaiah studies for two decades to produce a book like this. In the wake of a century of historical reconstruction of the stages by which the book of Isaiah is alleged to have grown, Peter Quinn-Miscall is clear about what he feels we do not know. His ‘new way’ of reading Isaiah is meant to allow readers to make their own decisions about the ambiguities and contradictions which he believes characterise this long and eminently quotable Old Testament book. (more…)

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an underrated work by a first-rate Old Testament theologian: R. W. L. Moberly, The Old Testament of the Old Testament (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The republication of Moberly’s 1992 study in an accessible paperback provides a further look at this textually-focussed work of Old Testament theology at a time when the reconfiguration within Pentateuchal studies has had another decade to run it course. The ‘revelations of the divine name’ in Exodus chapters three and six are key texts for classical Pentateuchal criticism. It is there that such an approach to the text finds one of the most notorious disjunctions between the ‘Yahwist’ source, on the one hand, and the ‘Elohist’ and ‘Priestly’ sources, on the other. (more…)

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