'The Avoidance Cycle'

Otydligt vara vs. vara otydlig

"There is an old philosophers’ joke that the analytical philosopher always accuses the continental one of being insufficiently clear, while the continental philosopher accuses the analytical one of Being insufficiently."

via Ernst Blog

Nice and simple

George Buttrick was a famous preacher and professor. Once he was riding on a plane and scribbling a lot of notes. The fellow next to him asked him what he was doing. Buttrick told him, “I’m a preacher, preparing Sunday’s sermon.”
“Ah, religion,” the man replied. “‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ That’s my religion. Nice and simple. That’s how I like it.”
“I see,” said Buttrick. He kept working.
Some time later he turned to his neighbor and asked, “So what do you do for a living?”
“I’m an astrophysicist,” said the man. “I teach astronomy at a university.”
“Ah, astronomy,” Buttrick replied. “I see. ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star.’ That’s how I like my science. Nice and simple.”

 Via Arni Zachariassens blogg.

Lex orandi, lex credendi

Ibland överträffar verkligheten ...

dikten ...

And now for something completely different ...

Brevet nedan är Steve Martins fantastiska sätt att besvara beundrarpost. Han skrev brevet på sitt produktionsbolags brevhuvud och i detta fall adresserat till ett fan vid namn Jerry.
Klicka på brevet för att förstora, och missa inte hans PS!


via Jens Lekman

Kul konstantinism från vänster ...

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Christ of Culture

Den som tycker att Richard Niebuhrs klassiska försök att kategorisera kristendomens relation till den omgivande kulturen är bristfälligt, bör inte missa denna lysande (amerikanska) typologi över den kristna hipstern.

Om "The Frugal Collegians":
"With one foot in their old Baptist youth group and the other on the unsteady terrain of viewing missions through the lens of post-colonialism, these kids are horizon-broadened, foundation-shaken and mind-blown on a daily basis, as they encounter such things as genocide, non-western plumbing, or Camus for the first time in their lives."

Om "The Bookish Intellectual":
"... impressively well-read (or at least impressively well aware of all the right books), this is the type of hipster who thrives anytime serious thought is given to just about anything. Is there a theology of corned beef and cabbage? Probably not, but the idea excites the Bookish Intellectual."

Om "The Monied Yuppies":
"More than likely they’ve thrown a Mad Men 60s-themed party or been involved in a discussion group for a book by Donald Miller, G.K. Chesterton or N.T. Wright."

Missa inte heller att peka på de olika föremålen på bilderna på orginalsidan.

Via @ladderinho och Mattias Thurfjell

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James K.A Smith berör på sätt och vis samma tema i sin TOJ-recension av James Davison Hunters To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World:

"As a populist movement, and (rightly) allergic to elitism, evangelicalism has either eschewed cultural production altogether or has instead engaged in merely subcultural production—generating the mimicking kitsch that fills Christian “gift” stores across the country. Such subcultural production (that is, the production of an evangelical subculture) actually betrays that “large swaths [of evangelicalism] have been captured by the spirit of the age”. No matter how many Jesus action figures or Hipster Study Bibles™ we might sell, the battle’s already been lost as soon as such phenomena exist. All we’ve done is carve out a new market sector that extends dominant cultural forces. This is a long way from “changing the world,” despite our rhetoric to the contrary. The world has changed us."

Uppenbarelsehumor

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Tipstack till Olov!

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via: Per Crucem ad Lucem

God Said It, I Interpreted It

Äntligen en t-shirt med ett hyggligt genomtänkt teologiskt budskap. I alla fall bättre än "God said it. I believe it. That settles it."
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Det sura med att ha tillrättavisandets gåva ...

Om vikten av prepositioners placering ...

Ben Myers bjuder på en Hauerwas-anekdot med grammatisk twist:

Stanley Hauerwas was at Harvard to deliver a lecture and, being there early and still needing to do some preparation, he set out to find the library. Not finding it, he stopped a student and asked him, “Excuse me, where’s the library at?”

Incredulous, the student responded, “Sir, at Harvard we don’t end our sentences with a preposition.”

Stanley paused for a moment and then rephrased his question in a more grammatically appropriate manner: “Where’s the library at, asshole?”

Vem sa att grammatik inte var kul?

En annan form av kristen underhållning

Enligt uppgift ratades detta traktatsförslag av Campus Crusade. Too bad, säger jag. Jag tror nämligen att bilder som denna behövs för att motverka självterapeutisk snedvridning av kristen tro av typen: "Ta emot Jesus i ditt hjärta, så försvinner alla dina problem!".

Källa: Euangelion