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  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: The Deliverance of God: Part 11   2 years, 3 months ago

    Notes on The Deliverance of God: Part 11, Father Abraham
    In this post we reach the end of Part 4 of The Deliverance of God and, thus, will finally have before us Campbell’s “new” reading of Romans 1-4. Recall, Justification Theory rests upon a certain reading of Romans 1-4, the critical text that Campbell calls the [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: The Deliverance of God: Part 10   2 years, 3 months ago

    Notes on The Deliverance of God: Part 10, The Deliverance of God
    We continue in Part 4 of The Deliverance of God walking through the second part of the rhetorical reading of Romans 1-4.

    Recall, according to the conventional reading Romans 1-4 is a three-part argument:

    1) 1.18-3.20: The Statement of the Problem:
    [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Deliverance of God: Part 9   2 years, 3 months ago

    Notes on The Deliverance of God: Part 9, The False Gospel, Con’t
    Dr. Campbell sent me the following comment regarding the last post in our series. It was too long for the comment box so I’m going to reproduce it here in full. Note, this isn’t a carefully crafted guest post. It’s just a quick comment [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Part 8 anaylsis of ”The Deliverance of God”   2 years, 3 months ago

    Okay everyone, this is the post you’ve finally been waiting on! We are finally into Part 4 of The Deliverance of God where Campbell begins to walk through his alternative reading of Paul.

    To begin, Campbell asks us to step back and consider the “frame” of Romans. Why was the book written? What prompted Paul to [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Part 7 anaylsis of the book ”The Deliverance of God”   2 years, 3 months ago

    Part 3 of The Deliverance of God moves us into the text of Romans. The focus of Part 3 is the reading of Romans 1-4. Campbell calls Romans 1-4 the Textual “Citadel” of Justification Theory. That is, the heart and soul of Justification Theory rests upon a particular reading of Romans 1.16-4.25. This stretch of [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Part 6 of the anaylsis of the book ”The Deliverance of God”   2 years, 3 months ago

    To recap, in Part 2 of The Deliverance of God Campbell works to create some distance between readers of Paul and Justification Theory. Justification Theory has been so dominant that it’s difficult to approach Paul for a fresh reading. Some of this has to do with the fact that Justification Theory has played such a [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Part 5 anaylsis by R. Beck of the book ”The Deliverance of God” by D. Campbell   2 years, 3 months ago

    I finished reading Part 2 of The Deliverance of God and I’d like to use two posts to summarize the points I think are important and/or interesting in this section of the book.

    Before turning to the Pauline texts in Part 3 Campbell asks us to step back in Part 2 to examine our hermeneutical situation. [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Part 4 anaylsis of ”The Deliverance of God”   2 years, 3 months ago

    In the last two posts I reviewed some of the intrinsic (theoretical) and systematic (textual) problems with Justification Theory discussed by Douglas Campbell in his book The Deliverance of God. In this post we will examine the empirical difficulties of Justification Theory wrapping up my summary of Part 1 of The Deliverance of God.

    As a [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Part 3 anaylsis of ”The Deliverance of God” by Campbell by Richard Beck   2 years, 3 months ago

    After working through the intrinsic (analytical/theoretical) problems in Justification Theory, The Deliverance of God turns to consider the systematic problems of Justification Theory. These are, as noted in the last post, problems Justification Theory has in explaining Paul in a coherent fashion. As Campbell points out, whenever we import Justification Theory into Paul we immediately [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Part 2 anaylsis of the book ”The Deliverance of God” written by D. Campbell by Richard Beck   2 years, 3 months ago

    As we noted in the last post, Douglas Campbell’s contention in his book The Deliverance of God is that our understanding of Paul, his soteriology in particular, has been distorted by the prism of Justification Theory. In one sense, this a shocking claim as Justification Theory is the consensus view regarding salvation (at least in [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: an anaylsis of the book ”The Deliverance of God” by Douglas Campell by Richard Beck Part 1   2 years, 3 months ago

    Last semester I noticed a lot of discussion on the theology blogs about the publication of Douglas A. Campbell’s book The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul. There appeared to be a lot of excitement surrounding the book, with many thinking that it was a “game changer” in Pauline studies. Some [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Jonny Ray   2 years, 3 months ago

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: for the heart of this people is waxed gross   2 years, 4 months ago

    It is 5:13 PM Thursday evening on the last evening of the year 2009. I am ending this diary. I am going to just write in my LiveJournal from now on. If you want to continue reading me go to LiveJournal user name “crookedfingers” peace

    “12: And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
    13: And [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: love of truth   2 years, 4 months ago

    It is going on 3 o’clock PM Thursday afternoon. I ate lunch and I wonder what should I get into next? I got out to look at my Sylvia Plath collection this afternoon. I have collected the last couple of years these books by Sylvia Plath or about her—

    “The Bell Jar” a novel by Sylvia [...]

  • Westy and Darkcloud are now friends   2 years, 4 months ago

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: an old diary entry False Teeth   2 years, 4 months ago

    her kisses were so sweet

    her kisses were so sweet
    where has the time gone?
    posted 11/06/04 (edited Saturday, Nov 06, 2004 11:59)

    It is Saturday morning 9:46 AM my day OFF from the Hamilton Farm Bureau-Egg Division. I have been working at the Egg Divison for 573 weeks thus far. When we moved to Holland 13 and half [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: mushrooms and LSD   2 years, 4 months ago

    love is the drug I am looking for

    Entries containing the phrase “mushrooms”:

    February 8th, 2004: Hundred Facts About Myself
    May 29th, 2005: an old diary entry “Hundred Facts About Myself”
    October 14th, 2005: mystical revelations in the desert
    January 1st, 2006: 100 facts about me
    February 4th, 2006: a review of the book “High Priest” by Timothy Leary
    November 23rd, 2006: [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: he that seeth me seeth him that sent me   2 years, 4 months ago

    Last night before going to sleep I read some more of the Gospel of John. I read chapter 12 of the Gospel of John and these verses spoke to me in light of my recent discussions with my sons Caleb and Josiah about my walk with the Lord Jesus Christ—

    “34: The people answered him, We [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: The Word was God   2 years, 4 months ago

    It is 8:22 AM Wednesday morning in the flow of existence. I got up this morning around 6:22 AM. When I got up I found my wife in the living room reading her Bible. I got myself a cup of coffee and sat down across from my wife to wake up to another day. We [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: The Old Rugged Cross   2 years, 4 months ago

    Recently I have had discussions with my children on what I believe as a Christian. I tell them I am just an old Bible believing lover of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe this old gospel hymn reveals who I am as a Christian—

    On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
    The emblem of [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: no one can come to the Father except through him   2 years, 4 months ago

    It is 3:05 PM Tuesday afternoon in the flow of existence. I am down in the basement typing on my lap top. Even though we have a new main computer upstairs I like writing on my lap top. I like being down in our basement talking to myself.

    It has been a normal day for me [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Jesus made the invisible God visible   2 years, 4 months ago

    It is 1:04 PM Monday afternoon in the flow existence. It has been snowing here by Lake Michigan for a couple of days. I am thankful I do not have to be out in the world. I am thankful for a warm cell in the american wasteland. In the Bible we read in First John [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Wonderful grace of Jesus   2 years, 5 months ago

    It makes me sad to know our son Caleb Jon can not sing this old gospel hymn—

    Wonderful grace of Jesus,
    Greater than all my sin;
    How shall my tongue describe it,
    Where shall its praise begin?
    Taking away my burden,
    Setting my spirit free;
    For the wonderful grace of Jesus reaches me.

    Refrain

    Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus,
    Deeper than the mighty rolling [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: the world is opposed to the light   2 years, 5 months ago

    It is 8:31 AM Sunday morning in the flow of existence. I got up around 8 o’clock AM this morning. Carol got home from work around 6 o’clock AM. She worked from Midnight till 6 o’clock AM today.

    Emily and Caleb arrived here around 4 o’clock PM yesterday. It was good to see them once again.

    We [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Vic Chesnutt has died   2 years, 5 months ago

    It is 9:50 AM Saturday in the flow of existence. I brought up my lap top from our basement last night and put it my study because our first born son and his wife will be visiting us this weekend. Caleb and Emily should be here this evening for a two day visit.

    I love my [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: He who is of God hears God’s words   2 years, 5 months ago

    The morning has gone by normal. I have been doing the usual things today. As I was reading the Gospel of John this morning I remembered reading a long time ago a book in my library titled “Love to Christ Necessary to Escape the Curse at His Coming” by Rev. Thomas Doolittle (1630-1707. Doolittle was [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen   2 years, 5 months ago

    It is 9:56 AM Friday morning in the flow of existence. Carol called me to pick her up at the hospital around 8:10 AM. We came home after I picked her up and she has gone to bed for the day. I am down in the basement messing with my lap top drinking coffee. It [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: Alas! and did my Savior bleed   2 years, 5 months ago

    It is important to remember on the day we remember the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ that He was born to die on the Cross for the sins of sinners. “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”” Matthew [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: thou hast the words of eternal life   2 years, 5 months ago

    The Gospel of John chapter 6 verses 43 through 71

    “43: Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
    44: No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
    45: It is written in the prophets, And they shall [...]

  • Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: there will be false teachers among you   2 years, 5 months ago

    It is 1:29 PM Thursday afternoon in the flow of existence. It has thus far been a super quiet day for me. I have wandered the house a lot today. I did sit down for a while and read some more of the Gospel of John. I wrote in my private diary also today. I [...]