Comments for resident-aliens.org http://resident-aliens.org Reflections Of One Not At Home In This World Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:05:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on Which Theologian Are You by resident-aliens.org » The Hermeneutics Quiz http://resident-aliens.org/2008/01/15/which-theologian-are-you/#comment-504 resident-aliens.org » The Hermeneutics Quiz Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:11:43 +0000 http://resident-aliens.org/2008/01/15/which-theologian-are-you/#comment-504 [...] last month I took a quiz to discover which theologian I am, and now I found The Hermeneutics Quiz. Here are my [...] [...] last month I took a quiz to discover which theologian I am, and now I found The Hermeneutics Quiz. Here are my [...]

]]> Comment on Religious Freedom by resident-aliens.org » The Lord is My Shepherd http://resident-aliens.org/2007/08/19/does-the-vetern-give-religious-freedom/#comment-503 resident-aliens.org » The Lord is My Shepherd Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:26:35 +0000 http://resident-aliens.org/?p=3#comment-503 [...] I may make a plug for myself, I said much this same thing last summer in a post about religious freedom. What Dr. Bailey didn’t say, not did I, is that David also did not pay “The Lord is my [...] [...] I may make a plug for myself, I said much this same thing last summer in a post about religious freedom. What Dr. Bailey didn’t say, not did I, is that David also did not pay “The Lord is my [...]

]]> Comment on Why I Am Lutheran—Part I: Liturgy by resident-aliens.org » Why I am Lutheran—Part II: Baptism http://resident-aliens.org/2007/12/02/why-i-am-lutheran%e2%80%94part-i-liturgy/#comment-38 resident-aliens.org » Why I am Lutheran—Part II: Baptism Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:27:45 +0000 http://resident-aliens.org/2007/12/20/why-i-am-lutheran%e2%80%94part-i-liturgy/#comment-38 [...] while studying the Reformation and then fully embracing it after attending a Lutheran church.  In Part I, I described the importance of the liturgy and how it helps to enable me to worship God in Spirit [...] [...] while studying the Reformation and then fully embracing it after attending a Lutheran church.  In Part I, I described the importance of the liturgy and how it helps to enable me to worship God in Spirit [...]

]]> Comment on Ancient Wisdom on Abortion by resident-aliens.org » Marriage, Abortion, Fatherhood http://resident-aliens.org/2008/01/17/ancient-wisdom-on-abortion/#comment-33 resident-aliens.org » Marriage, Abortion, Fatherhood Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:27:04 +0000 http://resident-aliens.org/2008/01/17/ancient-wisdom-on-abortion/#comment-33 [...] Yesterday, I stumbled across a quote by Tertullian on abortion at the same time that I received an email promotion for two movies on abortion.  Today I was going through some old files I found and I found a letter I sent to “The Guardian” (the one at WSU in Ohio, not England) back in 1996 when she was pregnant with our third child.  I was responding to a letter or article by someone named Craig Naiper. [...] [...] Yesterday, I stumbled across a quote by Tertullian on abortion at the same time that I received an email promotion for two movies on abortion.  Today I was going through some old files I found and I found a letter I sent to “The Guardian” (the one at WSU in Ohio, not England) back in 1996 when she was pregnant with our third child.  I was responding to a letter or article by someone named Craig Naiper. [...]

]]> Comment on Mapping God by Andy http://resident-aliens.org/2007/09/28/mapping-god/#comment-2 Andy Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:55:49 +0000 http://resident-aliens.org/2007/09/28/mapping-god/#comment-2 I would agree that God is both transcendent and immanent, but I wouldn't say "wholly external". In fact, my use of that term was to distinguish between Tillich's "wholly other" (which I meant to represent by my "ontologically distinict") and a view which tends toward deism (what Dawkins calls "supernatural theism"). If you consider Tillich's view of God as "the ground of all being" it becomes clear, I think, that this God cannot be external to anything in any way. I would agree that God is both transcendent and immanent, but I wouldn’t say “wholly external”. In fact, my use of that term was to distinguish between Tillich’s “wholly other” (which I meant to represent by my “ontologically distinict”) and a view which tends toward deism (what Dawkins calls “supernatural theism”).

If you consider Tillich’s view of God as “the ground of all being” it becomes clear, I think, that this God cannot be external to anything in any way.

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