“Baptism means everything which water means”. We sometimes think, most of us being linear thinkers, that baptism does primarily one thing. Baptism = x. We think in the same way about the Lord’s Supper, that it means only one thing. But since Christians have at least three different names for the sacrament of the Lord’s […]
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Faithful or Fearful?
The nativity stories are a particular way of telling about Jesus. They function as a kind of overture for the rest of the gospel. Overtures, are the “opening part (French ouverture) of a work that serves as summary, synthesis, metaphor, symbol of the whole.” This is not to say the nativity stories are ahistorical, but […]
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