Kyle Barton
@bartonkyle
Theology PhD student @Baylor | MDiv @ptseminary
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Christians are people with a definite passion. In no circumstances, then, can they be cowards, blind-worms, bored, boring, or commonplace. –Barth, CL, 111
“Understand that where weakness is displayed before your eyes, there godhead lies hidden.” –On Psalm 40, verse 2 Augustine 1,000 years before Luther
Witness Lee on deification, way before the Protestant party officially started: “This brings us to the matter of deification—God's intention to make the believers God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.” –Life-Study of 1 & 2 Samuel (1993)
To me, baseball is already irrefutable evidence that Atman and Brahman are one. –DB Hart
Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom. –Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline
![pwhhjr's tweet image. "Creation is, therefore, the first act of God's mercy. It is the rescue of the creature from chaos [...] The creature exists as the first step in the fulfillment of God's one eternal decree of love."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GybK0ysbkAAeyyv.png)
Creativity and fluency in planning an outline is the most important part of writing an essay. The rest is producing prose – which is also a significant skill – but to my mind being able elaborate an outline in response to a question is the core humanities achievement.
If you encourage students to use AI to write an outline, they will use it to write the paper. Even if they don't, you have short-circuited the learning process from the jump. Reading and organizing info is foundational for higher levels of thinking. The process is the point.
the greatest non orthodox theologians (Yes I’m putting JDW here)
Is not the Church the mother of all believers? Does she not regenerate them by the word of God, educate and nourish them through their whole life, strengthen, and bring them at length to absolute perfection? –Calvin, 1 Tim 3:15
The oikonomia produces the oikos, the oikos perpetuates the oikonomia. 1 Tim 1:4, 3:15
1. Mark was Peter's interpreter –Papias 2. Mark was Matthew's abbreviator –Augustine The first lead to the Gospel of Mark's canonization, the second to its neglect
Holding fast faith - Which is as a most precious liquor. And a good conscience - Which is as a clean glass. –John Wesley, Notes on the NT, 1 Tim 1:19
"Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." Samson's wedding riddle. Also the riddle of the gospel. Death is the universal eater. It will eat each of us. Death ate Jesus. But He overcomes Death to offer Himself as food. Satan is the…
Just came across The Alba House New Testament (1970). Really speaking to the times here. Interesting to see
There is no surer sign of a thing of God than that it is against or beyond our fancy. –Luther, Sermon on Third Christmas Day, John 1:1-14
What are the best novels that deal with theological themes that are still good novels? Here is what I have so far: Brothers Karamazov Name of the Rose Baudolino Silence The Secret Chord Love in the Ruins Gilead Laurus
Although it is tempting to think of Jesus as speaking about heaven [in Jn 14:1-4], he is not. –John Behr, John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel, 172
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