http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog Words about God and life for the Attention Deficit generation Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:00:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bonhoeffer's great book on community living, Life Together, is divided, as was life in the seminary, into five sections: Community; the Day Together; the Day Alone; Service and Confession and the Lord’s Supper. We examine each of these sections in turn. 2. The Day Together This “life together under the Word” ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/09/06/kgh-weaver-07/ Bonhoeffer's great book on community living, Life Together, is divided, as was life in the seminary, into five sections: Community; the Day Together; the Day Alone; Service and Confession and the Lord’s Supper. It is worth examining each of these sections in turn. 1. Community Very often, the Christian community is ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/09/03/kgh-weaver-06/ Being such a small movement (but perfectly formed!), I find it encouraging when I am given new opportunities to spread the message about Killing George Herbert (see posts passim). Especially when the opportunity means travelling to the US to give a paper on the subject at an international conference! In October, your ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/08/31/spreading-the-herberticidal-message/ Bonhoeffer's Sanctorum Communio is a dense book, which handles its material, Scriptural, theological and philosophical, with dazzling skill. It was quite unlike anything else that was coming out of the German Church in the between war years, and so it is not surprising that it was so overlooked then. It ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/08/30/kgh-weaver-0/ In communities, often it is difficult to distinguish between doing things in God's way, for the glory of God, and going things in our way for our greater glory. Bonhoeffer gives us two concepts to correct against this imposition of the human will in place of God’s will. First of all ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/08/27/kgh-weaver-04/ According to Bonhoeffer, to be human is "to be a person before God, and in relation to God. The relation of individual persons to each other, and the relations between human communities of persons, has this theological understanding of God and human existence at its core.” ((Clifford Green, ‘Human sociality’, ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/08/23/kgh-weaver-03/ A small summer, bank holiday tribute to Mock the Week: "Things you'd never hear in church". Contestants to the performance area, please... Bless you, Vicar. You're the one with the training. You decide. I think as a PCC we just don't pray enough. No, our generation has had its own way for long enough. ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/08/22/things-youd-never-hear-in-church/ Bonhoeffer studied at Tübingen and the University of Berlin, and produced his doctoral thesis in 1927, subsequently published to no attention at all in 1930: it was only after the war and Bonhoeffer’s death that Karl Barth described Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church as ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/08/20/kgh-weaver-02/ What is a community? Consider these four newspaper reports: “In the broadest sense, community involvement is how a company interacts with the communities in which it operates,” says Hannah Jones, Nike’s head of corporate responsibility. “For us, it’s the 800,000 workers in our supply chain.” “… if the intelligence community is to ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/08/16/kgh-weaver-01/ This November sees the publication of my first book, Circles of Thorns: Hieronymus Bosch and Being Human (Continuum International). I thought it might be interesting to give potential readers an idea of what the book is about, and what the curious subtitle actually means. Using the example of Bosch’s only painting ... http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/08/01/circles-of-thorns/