March 29, 2014
Before the movie, first the biblical story…or at least my reading of that story…. This is not a children’s story. The animals going into the ark two by two do make a classic VBS song and it certainly makes a great flannel graph. But this story is more like a horror movie than a Disney […]
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Biblical Texts, Theology | Tagged: Creation, Ecology, Environment, Eschatology, Flood, Genesis 6-9, Noah, Rest, Sabbath, Violence |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 28, 2013
At least two theological themes emerge from this pericope. On the one hand, the kingdom of God breaks into the life of a woman who had been bound by her disability for eighteen years. She is healed and experiences redemption. On the other hand, opposition to the kingdom of God arises in response to her […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Bible-Luke, Curse, Gospel of Luke, Healing, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Luke 13:10-17, Ministry of Jesus, Sabbath |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 8, 2009
[Note: I am attempting to keep these SBD installments under 2000 words each, but that is–of course–quite inadequate for the topics covered. Consequently, these contributions are more programmatic than they are explanatory or defenses of the positions stated. You may access the whole series at my Serial page.] The divine community enjoys communion with the […]
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Theology | Tagged: Community, Creation, God, Love, Materiality, Natural Theology, Omnipotence, Providence, Revelation, Sabbath, Sovereignty, Theology, Trinity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 8, 2009
A “God of technicalities”? The first article I ever published in academia was “The Sabbath Controversy in Matthew: An Exegesis of Matthew 12:1-14″ which appeared in the Restoration Quarterly 27.2 (1984) 79-91. I have now uploaded this on my Academic page. At some point in the future, I may reflect in personal terms on how that study subsequently impacted […]
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Hermeneutics, Personal, Theology | Tagged: Bible-Hosea, Bible-Matthew, Grace, Hermeneutics, Mercy, Ritual, Sabbath, Sacrifice |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks