Category Archives: anti-Semitism

The New Black Theology And The Patristics

Posted on January 26, 2012 by RodtRDH

TOWARDS A CRITICAL RACE THEOLOGY? Traditionally, the Patristics and their work were used as apologetics to protect Christians and our propositional truth claims. Tertullian agrees with me! No Augustine agrees with me! Origen is a heretic! Clement of Alexandria? Can … Continue reading →

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Grimm: Danse Macabre

Posted on December 8, 2011 by RodtRDH

The fairytale that inspired tonight’s episode of Grimm was “The Jew in the Brambles.” The Brothers Grimm, like many of the intellectuals in their time, had a problem with the people we call the Jews. That problem’s name is ANTI-SEMITISM. … Continue reading →

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Ishmael & Immigration: A Postcolonial Reading of Genesis 16

Posted on August 1, 2011 by RodtRDH

Last week, I finished Edward Said’s Orientalism, and I could not help myself thinking about how the way Orientalism infects our reading of Scripture. One of the largely unchallenged biases we read into the story of Ishmael in Genesis 16 … Continue reading →

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Willie Jennings: We Need A New Theology of Israel

Posted on July 15, 2011 by RodtRDH

Today, Stuart posted on the latest developments of the World Council of Churches, and how it now has implicated the nation of modern Israel as the key impediment to the Christianization of the Middle East. In fact according to this … Continue reading →

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The Parable-Driven Life: The Parable(s) of the Fig Tree(s) Judges 9:10-11 & Luke 13:1-9

Posted on November 16, 2010 by RodtRDH

JUDGING THE HEBREW BIBLE INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT Judges 9:1-15: The Reign Forest A young general, (whose name meant my father is monarch), who was son of a man nicknamed ‘Byelobog Will Defend Himself’, stood before the political elites of … Continue reading →

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