That was a fine piece of discussion. But let's look forward to next Sunday and the Sunday after and focus your minds on those readings too please. Many thanks for joining in like this and livening up
#17, 18. In the plight of the homeless, the trafficked, those displaced by climate change, those queuing at food banks today - and children in places like Syria disfigured by munitions made in western
The Psalms are quite obsessed with "enemies" and "evildoers" and resort to bloodthirsty cursing in the parts left out of the Breviary. Here is Har Dayal (The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit
I think the language of Luke "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" is preferable to that of John, "You are of your father the devil" and to that of Matthew, "His blood be upon us and
Nonetheless, scriptural and mainstream Buddhism remains a very efficacious medicine-chest for a sanatio in radice of the mental and physical violence that has been so prevalent in our tradition since
# 13: ‘The portrayal of the Jews as a “lynch mob” in a text written 70 years after the dimly remembered events is a harshness that is also likely to be unjust.’
This formulation is gratuitou
#11 Re Buddhism and violence, there is an interesting Wikipedia article on this at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence
N.B. I know that Wikipedia varies in credibility, but am intrig
"Surely Girardian analysis is in itself a rebuttal of the charge that the NT is anti-Semitic, Joe – in that Girard categorises ALL scapegoating – including the crucifixion of Jesus AND all Christi
#10 Surely Girardian analysis is in itself a rebuttal of the charge that the NT is anti-Semitic, Joe - in that Girard categorises ALL scapegoating - including the crucifixion of Jesus AND all Christia
Would we dare to apply Girardian analysis to the harsh language directed against individuals in most New Testament texts?
I don't say the harsh language is inspired by rivalry; just that we cannot sa
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31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019That was a fine piece of discussion. But let's look forward to next Sunday and the Sunday after and focus your minds on those readings too please. Many thanks for joining in like this and livening up
31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019#17, 18. In the plight of the homeless, the trafficked, those displaced by climate change, those queuing at food banks today - and children in places like Syria disfigured by munitions made in western
31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019The Psalms are quite obsessed with "enemies" and "evildoers" and resort to bloodthirsty cursing in the parts left out of the Breviary. Here is Har Dayal (The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit
31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019I think the language of Luke "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" is preferable to that of John, "You are of your father the devil" and to that of Matthew, "His blood be upon us and
31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019Nonetheless, scriptural and mainstream Buddhism remains a very efficacious medicine-chest for a sanatio in radice of the mental and physical violence that has been so prevalent in our tradition since
31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019# 13: ‘The portrayal of the Jews as a “lynch mob” in a text written 70 years after the dimly remembered events is a harshness that is also likely to be unjust.’ This formulation is gratuitou
31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019#11 Re Buddhism and violence, there is an interesting Wikipedia article on this at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence N.B. I know that Wikipedia varies in credibility, but am intrig
31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019"Surely Girardian analysis is in itself a rebuttal of the charge that the NT is anti-Semitic, Joe – in that Girard categorises ALL scapegoating – including the crucifixion of Jesus AND all Christi
31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019#10 Surely Girardian analysis is in itself a rebuttal of the charge that the NT is anti-Semitic, Joe - in that Girard categorises ALL scapegoating - including the crucifixion of Jesus AND all Christia
31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent
March 31 2019Would we dare to apply Girardian analysis to the harsh language directed against individuals in most New Testament texts? I don't say the harsh language is inspired by rivalry; just that we cannot sa
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