Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is back!

In this newest season of Hermeneutics, we're tackling the Gospel of John, bit by bit. To kick things off we're starting at the very beginning with the Prologue.

The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life,[a] and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.[b]

10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own,[c] and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son,[d] full of grace and truth. 15 (John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’”) 16 From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son,[e] who is close to the Father’s heart,[f] who has made him known.

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The gang wrap up this series on Stan the Man by discussing Stanley's Advent sermon, "Facing God, Facing Nothingness," in his book, Without Apology.

From his forthcoming book, Becoming Human, Johanna and Jason discuss Stan's essay (on Karl Barth) "The Christian Message, the Work of Theology, and the New Humanism."

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"The question of the relation of my work to that of Martin Luther King Jr. cannot be resolved with the theoretical tools Christopher Beem brings to the task. Stanley Fish has written that "those who detach King's words from the history that produced them erase the fact of that history from the slate, and they do so, paradoxically, in order to prevent that history from being truly and deeply altered." The vice of liberalism is not selfishness so much as a forgetfulness that spreads like a blight from the habit of abstraction. Martin Luther King Jr. remembered his people, his savior, and his church, and he called the rest of us to share those memories. Therein lay his strength."

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In this episode, the podcast posse discuss an essay by a frequent interlocutor of Stanley's, The God of the Theologians and the God of Jesus Christ by James McClendon.

"Moralistic liberalism and individual pietism are mirror evils that have made the church understood as the distinctive Body of Christ virtually invisible in America." In this episode, the podcast posse discusses an essay Stanley wrote with Ralph Wood, "How the Church became Invisible: A Christian Reading of American Literature," along with Flannery O' Connor's short story "The Displaced Person."

Johanna, Jason, and Teer discuss 'Jesus the Story of the Kingdom,' one of the concluding chapters from 'The Peaceable Kingdom' (1983).

Christian ethics is about being schooled in the narrative of Jesus and discipleship. It is not about what you would do in a hypothetical situation, it is about forming people who will act in a particular way when those situations come up.

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"The Gospel is not an answer to questions produced by human anxiety but a proclamation of a fact."

In the latest installment of YANA, we discuss Stanley's essay, "Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Political Theology," from his book "Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence."