18th December O Antphon "O ADONAI".
Novice took the photo at Lauds. I was simply admiring the cover of the Advent Hours.The second day is of 'O Adonai' (click enlarge the Hebrew) - a pause of prayer.
Later the interest appears on the Website focus on Wolfhard Pannenberg.
The quotes beautifully point to "a transcendent experience of Divine Light".
1960-70s Librarian valued Pannenberg volumes on the shelves. At the end of 2012 the discovery is a Christmas gift.
Claremont School of Theology
Theology in 3 Sentences: help me surprise Tripp Fuller for his Birthday!
May 31, 2012 by 10 Comments
As I have moved from the East Coast to the West – I have also moved from being an evangelist-apologist to a theologian. I have also gone from focusing mostly on pastoral issues and leadership to an academic discipline of Practical Theology in dialogue with Process thought and PostLiberal criticism.
One of the things that I have had to develop is the ability to summarize issue and explain topics in about 3 sentences. I have become a master at introducing something new to folks in 3 sentences – because that is about all you get.
My Mainline associates (church & school) are baffled that I have preached 1,000 sermons and have cast out nearly 100 demons. My Evangelical friends have no idea what an alb & stole are and wouldn’t recognize a lectionary if it stuck a finger up their nose [not to mention a vestry or chancel]. I get to initiate Liberals who have never heard of ‘treasure hunts’, Evangelicals who have never heard of Bultmann, Charismatics ignorant of lectio divina and Mainliners to emergence theory.
Tripp and I got a lot of practice at this earlier in the year when we were promoting the Emergent Village Theological Conversation with Process Theology (Jan 2012). I love to do it with all sorts of topics in scholarship and philosophy.
It’s fun! You should give it a try. Pick one of the following topics and give ‘er a rip:
- Wittgenstein is 3 sentences
- Womanist Thought in 3 sentences
- Liberation Theology in 3 sentences
- Tillich in 3 sentences
A while ago we had fun around here with “7 Word Sermons”. I was so impressed with the collective innovation and ingenuity that I thought it was time for another session.
This weekend we will be celebrating a landmark Birthday for one Mr. Tripp Fuller … SO I thought that it would be great to give Tripp a Birthday present that only a collection of theology nerds could give!
This weekend we will be celebrating a landmark Birthday for one Mr. Tripp Fuller … SO I thought that it would be great to give Tripp a Birthday present that only a collection of theology nerds could give!
Pannenberg in 3 sentences.
Friday afternoon I will be recording a TNT with Tripp – and for his birthday present from me, he asked if we could talk about Pannenberg! (it’s called a Theology Nerd Throwdown for a reason folks).
I will use anything you put forward by showtime and I know that it will keep Tripp smilin’ all weekend as the contributions come rollin’ in.
Thank you Deacons! and Happy Birthday Tripp 
willhenderson
1. I love his history as revelation approach
2. I think his focus on the resurrected Christ helps us understand the Holy Spirit. It sure has for me.
3. I love this proleptic idea that Bo shared with me recently. The first two I got from Pannenberg but this last one is from Pannenberg to Bo to Will.
And to the person who talked of there never being another Pannenberg? I don't know, Tripp just might pull that off & more!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRIPP!!
BoSanders
Here is my attempt at Pannenberg in 3 sentences:
- History is not driven by the past but is instead called forward by a God who is ‘the power of the future’.
- The resurrection of Jesus is a (proleptic) foretaste that guarantees or ensures for the believer a ‘Theology of Hope’ about the consummation of all things.
- Whatever is ultimately true in the end, will have always been true, so we can proceed with appropriate humility in our faith without stomping all over others because ultimately it is GOD who does it and not us.
BoSanders
This just in from Bill Walker:
- History is the (indirect) arena of Christian theology, and anthropology is fundamental theology.
- Theology therefore has meaning within the framework of history through which God, as infinite, in association with humanity, and through humanity’s orientation toward divine providence with all of creation, moves toward a future that is still hidden and tentative to the world; but that has already been revealed and anticipated (initiated but not finalized or grasped) in Jesus Christ as part of the story of Israel – as a universal historical revelation open to all.
- This formulation of revelation in the Church foretells of and intuits God’s kingdom coming from the future, thereby expressing God’s eschatological vindication of Jesus and the impending reign of love and justice.
tom c
Here goes my attempt:
Wittgenstein was not a theologian. He did, however, have a lot to say about the importance of clarifying in order to dispel confusion that may arise from unscrupulous use of language. Is the clearing away of confusion about God theology?
Da stand das Meer
P.S. Wittgenstein in 3 sentences -
1. "Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent"
2. and 3. see 1.
PB;)
Da stand das Meer
Short(er) version;
1. A truly cosmic Christian vision for those who aren't afraid of having their minds expanded a little.
2. Don't think his big books are just for propping up broken chairs; they may be a headache if you're looking for 'soundbite theology', but mind-blowingly exciting stuff awaits those patient enough to dig beneath the dry-as-dust surface.
3. We're not likely to see the like of Wolfhart P. again anytime soon; his work is the sunset of a 200 year-old tradition of Germanic theological reflection , but a magnificent sunset.
Da stand das Meer
Happy Birthday Tripp!!
Here goes on Wolfi P. (perhaps I'm cheating here with the length of the sentences, but Pannenberg doesn't go in for short ones either...)
'Having been 'zapped' by a transcendent experience of Divine Light as a German teenager growing up in the crucible of the traumatic end of World War II, Wolfhart Pannenberg, like others of his generation such as Jürgen Moltmann and Johann Baptist Metz, realized that Christian theology has to deal with the messy business of human history if it wants to have traction in the real world.
The core conviction running throughout his work is that, instead of looking at cosmic history as being driven forward by the past, it is also - indeed primarily - drawn forward into the future of a God who is both Alpha AND Omega, and that the resurrection of Jesus is the inbreaking of that future plenitude into the time of our own lives and of our planet.
Seeking to find a balance between doing theology from 'below' and 'above', Pannenberg's thought leaves no human intellectual discipline untouched; although he may be regarded by some as the ultimate rationalist and the 'last dinosaur' of systematic theology in the German tradition, his huge project still has the capacity to inspire those who want to combine an affirmation of the core commitments of historic Christian faith with a genuine openness to the ongoing life of God's world in all its complexity and richness.'
Peace and prolepsis!
Peter B.
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Book Dust Cover -“Faith & Reality”,
SEARCH PRESS 1977
Professor Wolfhart Pannenberg has written Faith and Reality on a topic of interest to a larger public than that reached by his more systematic works. Here he provides answers to such questions as whether our lives are in God's hand, how man can really be said to be made in the image of God, how God becomes known to us, how we understand reality in the Bible, the meaning of the Spirit, the connexion between Jesus' history and our history in the world and as individuals and the revelation of God in contemporary history.
Professor Pannenberg is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Munich. This intriguing and balanced work is an ideal introduction to the essence
of his thought.
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