I Peter 3:13-22
1) Many consider this passage (v. 19) a possible source for the doctrine of the descent into hell. Barth extends the work of the reformers with an insistence that hell as utter alienation from God began at Gethsemane. One of the best books for me is Alan Lewis Between Cross and resurrection. von Balthasar does see the descent as a discrete event. Lauber's revised Princeton dissertation collects material from both. It seems fairly clear to me that the doctrine envisions hell in the sense of Hades/Sheol, the abode of the dead, more than the image of everlasting punishment.See later at 4:6.
1) Many consider this passage (v. 19) a possible source for the doctrine of the descent into hell. Barth extends the work of the reformers with an insistence that hell as utter alienation from God began at Gethsemane. One of the best books for me is Alan Lewis Between Cross and resurrection. von Balthasar does see the descent as a discrete event. Lauber's revised Princeton dissertation collects material from both. It seems fairly clear to me that the doctrine envisions hell in the sense of Hades/Sheol, the abode of the dead, more than the image of everlasting punishment.See later at 4:6.
2) It seems many of our sisters and brothers mistake cultural disestablishment for persecution.We have many over the globe who do suffer for their faith. Even if they do good, they suffer. If Jesus would suffer, why should we be immune? Further the suffering had some value, as it brought us to a new way of life.
3) We get a reading of baptism that reaches back into the primordial story of Noah and the great symbol of water. Even thought the primordial flood was so destructive, it seems that all those "spirits in prison" have a chance at release, indeed redemption. If one chose, the spirits in prison could extend to living now imprisoned by various forces, including self-imposition of a sentence of say, guilt. One could speak of the church as an ark, or a little boat.
3) We get a reading of baptism that reaches back into the primordial story of Noah and the great symbol of water. Even thought the primordial flood was so destructive, it seems that all those "spirits in prison" have a chance at release, indeed redemption. If one chose, the spirits in prison could extend to living now imprisoned by various forces, including self-imposition of a sentence of say, guilt. One could speak of the church as an ark, or a little boat.
4) The exaltation of Jesus from the depths is a constant theme in the early Christian literature.
Acts 17:22-33
1_ This fascinates me. Paul tries to work into Athens by using some of their own religion as an entry point. How different is this from our wholesale adoption of marketing and American cultural idiom and understandings as a lens for the gospel?
2) Here we are reminded of the Tertullian question, what has Athens to do with Jerusalem? In our time, perhaps more to the point what has Mammon to do with Jerusalem?
Acts 17:22-33
1_ This fascinates me. Paul tries to work into Athens by using some of their own religion as an entry point. How different is this from our wholesale adoption of marketing and American cultural idiom and understandings as a lens for the gospel?
2) Here we are reminded of the Tertullian question, what has Athens to do with Jerusalem? In our time, perhaps more to the point what has Mammon to do with Jerusalem?
3) Paul goes after idolatry and emphasizes the Creator god.
4) v.27 is striking about seeking the one who is near.
5) for those who wish a demarcation of secular and sacred Paul links two quotes into his religious argument from non-Jewish sources.
6) Is it an accident that this reading on fixing a day comes a week after May 21?
7) It is of some comfort for preachers that some scoffed but others wanted to hear more.
8) Luke is clearly adopting rhetorical styles and strategies here. Again note much work is being done on this feature, or look at the award winning book by Luke timothy Johnson on Christianity within the Greco-roman world.
8) Luke is clearly adopting rhetorical styles and strategies here. Again note much work is being done on this feature, or look at the award winning book by Luke timothy Johnson on Christianity within the Greco-roman world.
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