tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post7754427838580444475..comments2023-08-10T09:38:07.159+01:00Comments on Revising Reform: Paul the Mystic? Defining encounters.Rev R Marszalekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-43491176741269496932009-09-30T21:04:58.026+01:002009-09-30T21:04:58.026+01:00Thank you James - that's brill
God bless
Rache...Thank you James - that's brill<br />God bless<br />RachelRev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-88590851519465685662009-09-30T13:55:28.237+01:002009-09-30T13:55:28.237+01:00I fixed the link (I had to use archive.org as the ...I fixed the link (I had to use archive.org as the original document is gone). Thanks for drawing to my attention that the link wasn't working!James F. McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561146722461747647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-54296765603544665222009-09-29T21:10:09.399+01:002009-09-29T21:10:09.399+01:00Hi James
Could you fix this link Mayer, "The...Hi James <br />Could you fix this link Mayer, "The Women Should Keep Silence In The Churches" on your Paul and the Early Church page? I am looking into some of your Butler stuff. <br /><br />Thank you very muchRev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-9830898750121246622009-09-29T17:51:10.324+01:002009-09-29T17:51:10.324+01:00I'll make sure you're on my blogroll too. ...I'll make sure you're on my blogroll too. Presumably "Bible and Church" will work, unless you have "Bible, Church and Sci-Fi" category...James F. McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561146722461747647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-69994249158405763022009-09-29T17:40:11.879+01:002009-09-29T17:40:11.879+01:00I'm definitely getting the 'pentecostal in...I'm definitely getting the 'pentecostal interests' thing coming through, which I love - excellent - 'study buddy' to the great Jimmy himself - how fab!<br /><br />Yes I'll add you to my blog roll - do you think you are 'Church and Bible' or Bible and Church' for my categories?Rev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-54155439381390190312009-09-29T14:02:03.118+01:002009-09-29T14:02:03.118+01:00Well, reading more of someone's stuff often gi...Well, reading more of someone's stuff often gives a better sense of where they are coming from! :) <br /><br />I came to a personal faith in a Pentecostal church, and now am a member in a Baptist one. And for what it's worth, I studied with Jimmy Dunn, whom one of his other students once described as "a Reformed Methodist with Baptist leanings and Pentecostal interests".James F. McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561146722461747647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-45554015889208752702009-09-28T18:58:21.276+01:002009-09-28T18:58:21.276+01:00Thanks for dropping by James. I have been finding ...Thanks for dropping by James. I have been finding Dunn's book (The Spirit of Jesus0 very interesting, especially because of the way that it focuses on Glossolalia and the charisma in general, I am fascinated by the way in which God works in ways which can not be rationalised by human thinking, in the sense that these experiences are super - natural. Very exciting. Because I speak to God in my 'angel language', as my children have come to call it, it is good to read an academic like Dunn dealing with this phenomenon exegetically because a lot of the stuff out there on manifestations is often quite glossy and superficial. <br /><br />Where do you stand on these things? I'm having trouble defining the vibe of 'Exploring our Matrix' - perhaps I need to read some more of your stuff.Rev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-45214468654709772242009-09-28T17:09:09.218+01:002009-09-28T17:09:09.218+01:00Thanks for posting on this. I think you may be tak...Thanks for posting on this. I think you may be taking your linguistic point too far, perhaps. It is certainly true that Paul's language of "seeing" does not in and of itself indicate that his experience was "visionary" in nature. The description in Acts is interesting, since in at least one place it suggests that those with Paul may have seen <i>something</i> but not the figure with whom Paul was speaking. But we should perhaps expect Acts to depict the experience as having a "tangible" component, since both Luke and John, late in the first century and presumably in response to docetism, both add references to physical components of the encounter with the risen Jesus (including eating) where such details were not part of the tradition previously. And so historically speaking, we are still left with the possibility that the experiences that gave rise to Easter faith were of a sort that we today might categorize as "visionary".James F. McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561146722461747647noreply@blogger.com