Updown sideuP: October 2014

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What

Updown sideuP openly examines traditional Christian and philosophical assumptions—Tears at icons and non-inclusive interpretations—Represents an open process that is apt to change opinion or "truth" as a better understanding presents. Beware.

Well, I am Darryl Wooldridge, PhD, and I am hoping to use this blog to question some of the traditionally held presumptions of Christianity. And since I begin with some presuppositions (I am a Christian), I may have a bit of a difficulty suspending them. But I will try. I was using a pseudonym to help this process. No, I was not trying to hide; I was using a devise, an alter ego, to free, stretch, and question. This is a living process, and it, I (perhaps you), will then change and morph as compelled by liberated truth.

I have recently decided to "come out of the closet" and use my given name since there is nothing here I would not openly speak. So let's "conversate."

https://nwu.academia.edu/DarrylWooldridge

#spiritual#christian#religion#transformation#love#proleptic#salvation#homosexual#gender#hell#Jesus#universalism#god#theology#resitution#pluralism#sin

Some Alternative Reading

Convictions, Marcus Borg
Love Wins, Rob Bell
Evil and the God of Love, John Hick
Richard Rohr
A New Kind of Christianity, McLaren
Deconstruction in A Nutshell, Caputo
God Crucified: Monotheism & Christology in The New Testament, Bauckham
How (Not) to Speak of God, Rollins
Kingdom Triangle, Moreland
Pagan Christianity?
Seizing Your Divine Moment, McManus
The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer
The Divine Conspiracy, Willard
The Great Emergence, Tickle
The Humanity of God, Barth
The Imitation of Christ, a Kempis
The Naked Gospel, Farley
The Practice of The Presence of God, Lawrence
The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales, Rollins
What Would Jesus Deconstruct, Caputo
The Return of The Prodigal, Nouwen
The Shack, Young

Quotes And Thoughts

two ways possible of encountering Jesus: man must die or he must put Jesus to death.—Bonhoeffer
I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.—George Macdonald
Generosity without orthodoxy is nothing, but orthodoxy without generosity is worse than nothing.—Hans Frei
God, whose love and joy / are present everywhere, / can't come to visit you / unless you aren't there.—Angelus Silesius
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.—Jacques Derrida
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.—Mother Teresa
Life on the margins has always been the most difficult and, at the same time, the one most imaginatively lived.—Phyllis Tickle
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.—Galatians 3:28
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.— Miroslav Volf
The mind grows always by intercourse with a mind more mature than itself. That is the secret of all teaching.—William Temple
If, as a matter of fact, only divine holiness brings life and only divine glory brings joy to humankind, God's directing of human creatures to himself is no egoism. On the contrary, to conceal from human creatures knowledge of the true fount and glory of goodness would be to rob them of both the meaning and the joy of creaturely existence.—Stephen N. Williams
The harvest of suffering cannot be reaped until it has been eaten, burnt, digested. If the suffering is accepted and lived through, not fought against and refused, then it is completed and becomes transmuted. It is absorbed, and having accomplished its work, it ceases to exist as suffering, and becomes part of our growing self.—E. Graham Howe and L. Le Mesurier
@The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyrs.—Muhammad
@Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
@There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.—Aristotle
@Nothing is so apt to mask the face of God as religion.—Harry Williams
@There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.—David Carradine
@Everything new looks strange.—Ferran Adrià
@The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rouge.—Emma Goldman

Saturday, October 18, 2014