Not exact matches
Might the
contemporary church hear itself and its situation addressed by a surprising prophetic word that, in the
name of God, calls previous words
of God into question?
I wandered through other church traditions, traditional,
contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you
name it, I found my way there and I found the people
of God in each place, I did.
-- Matthew 24:37 This is one
of the reasons why some conjecture that the UFO phenomena may be a
contemporary manifestation
of a recurrence
of these same hybrids.16 Since we are having to try «to reconcile the character
of Jesus with some
of the events that happen in the
name of God in the Old Testament» let's continue considering these events in light
of the prophecies
of Jesus and a couple
of New Testament writers.
Barfield's conception
of the incarnation as a freeing
of man, in the course
of time, to say the Divine
Name («I am...») here coalesces with Altizer's idea that the death
of God frees us to see the
contemporary reality
of a continuing incarnational kenosis leading to a nonhubristic apotheosis
of man.15 Barfield has achieved with his metaphorical sensitivity a pre-view
of a «final participation» which is the coincidentia oppositorum Altizer was insufficiently able to apprehend with his dialectical method.
«BPM,» «
God's Own Country,» and «Call Me By Your
Name»: Though the handsomely crafted, Italian - set «Call Me By Your
Name» has gotten all the critical attention, two other films about young gay men coming to terms with themselves in much harsher environments — the French «BPM» is set at the height
of the AIDS crisis in Paris while the
contemporary British drama «
God's Own Country» is set in a grim, rural northern England — are both more haunting and powerful.