tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post115430485443781425..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: The river of deathbyron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1154949842004806252006-08-07T12:24:00.000+01:002006-08-07T12:24:00.000+01:00i) When it’s the death of a saviour, then I guess ...i) When it’s the death of a saviour, then I guess it’s a good thing. Even though Christ’s sacrificial death and our physical death are not completely analogous, it does show that it’s a conceptual possibility to have an evil and a good aspect to the one event. We don’t have to be so dualist so as to think that evil and good don’t intersect at points. Perhaps this meeting of good and evil can be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1154680412728346962006-08-04T09:33:00.000+01:002006-08-04T09:33:00.000+01:00Marty: thanks for the references. I'm curious: how...Marty: thanks for the references. I'm curious: how is death a good thing?byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1154676010402079232006-08-04T08:20:00.000+01:002006-08-04T08:20:00.000+01:00Make of this what you will. From Barth's "Evangeli...Make of this what you will. From Barth's "Evangelical Theology" (p59):<BR/>At the conclusion of his delivery of the fifth lecture on 'The Spirit' at Chicago and Princton, Karl Barth added the following: 'So much as an introduction to evangelical theology. But one thing remains to be added. Allow me to say it a little enigmatically and cryptically with the words of the Rebel General Stonewall Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1154575187327786872006-08-03T04:19:00.000+01:002006-08-03T04:19:00.000+01:00DWC: yeah, I'd love to do further exploration of c...DWC: yeah, I'd love to do further exploration of contemporary views on death, dying and after-death amongst evangelicals (and others). And thanks Seamus for that suggestion about death and <A HREF="http://nothing-new-under-the-sun.blogspot.com/2006/07/requiem-aeternam.html" REL="nofollow">rest</A>.<BR/><BR/>Nic: done.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1154477358797746302006-08-02T01:09:00.000+01:002006-08-02T01:09:00.000+01:00hi byron...i don't know much about rivers but i do...hi byron...<BR/>i don't know much about rivers but i do know that i tried to send you an email but it bounced! could you drop me a quick line on zeekstar@gmail.com and i'll send it again :)<BR/>thanks, nicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1154455114694571812006-08-01T18:58:00.000+01:002006-08-01T18:58:00.000+01:00Your thoughts here are worth exploring at much gre...Your thoughts here are worth exploring at much greater length. I suspect we can connect both the old Greek myths and contemporary evangelical views on the afterlife (an interesting word in itself) to a kind of Gnosticism. As with Socrates, death is the great escape from this life into a better, spiritualized one.David W. Congdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03009330707703611224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1154424755062922782006-08-01T10:32:00.000+01:002006-08-01T10:32:00.000+01:00I think the idea gets legs, so to speak, rather fr...I think the idea gets legs, so to speak, rather from the association between entering the Land, and thus into Rest, and entering into Heaven, and thus into the Rest that Remains.<BR/><BR/>as for when that connection got made, I'm at a loss.jeltzzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08016160098665044867noreply@blogger.com