The handsome and tall Saul is chosen–Saul who looks like a king, who embodies authority. But the God of the Exodus has not shown God’s favor for Saul. The God who moves from despair, the God who reveals God’s name to those in pain, the God who picks stutterers to be God’s mouthpiece finds no…
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Much Fear and Trembling
What Luther discovered, which we too often hide from, is the theological and existential discovery that God is crucified, that the monster takes God, that death and separation destroy God. And this is not to be celebrated, but despaired. Just like Paul, we are in much fear and trembling. For Luther, like Nietzsche, God is…
Much Fear and Trembling
What Luther discovered, which we too often hide from, is the theological and existential discovery that God is crucified, that the monster takes God, that death and separation destroy God. And this is not to be celebrated, but despaired. Just like Paul, we are in much fear and trembling. For Luther, like Nietzsche, God is…