Tag: Theology
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On Temptation (Versuchung) in Bonhoeffer (II)
This post is the second of two examining Bonhoeffer’s theology of temptation as reflected in his essay, “Bible Study on Temptation, June 20–25, 1938,” found in the English edition of Bonhoeffer’s Works (vol. 15, pp. 386-415). Click here to view part one, which covers the first part of the essay—a more conceptual treatment of the concept of […]
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On Temptation (Versuchung) in Bonhoeffer (I)
The reading from the New Testament on Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, comes from Luke 4:1-13. This pericope concerns the temptation of Christ by the devil while he was in the wilderness. On reading commentaries about this passage, I came across multiple references to Bonhoeffer’s essay, “Temptation,” found in various places and translated in […]
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Elsewhere: Forms Podcast
My Twitter friends @henryjwallis, @YAgamben and I (@WoeToChorazin) recorded a new podcast on Forms regarding Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s address to clergy in Paris, “The Church and the Kingdom.” Be sure to listen to it today!
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Towards a Socialistic Theology (I & II)
The human community is not identical to the community of God, but the community of God is contained in the human community. Every person, being an image bearer, is meant to mirror God’s divine kavod as an apostle of his Edenic-restorative mission. All have turned away from this mission — we build our houses on sand, rather than on the immovable rock. The liberating power of the Gospel is the emancipatory procedure through which God manumits, enfranchises, and coronates his children as heirs to the promise. This is in effect God’s freely willed binding of his selfhood to human nature, eternally (in his will as the moment of his being, eternally unfolding in the energies of the Spirit) and in the incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and glorification of Jesus Christ. The liberating potentiality of the Gospel is actualized in the dialectic movement of the already-not-yet schema.
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Healing and the Promise (2016-2017)
What you will read below is a time capsule—containing some of some of my earlier writing. it is a continuation of previous reflections.
Keanu Heydari 