Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground

Letter to the Romans Part 6

St. Paul's writings comprise a large part of the New Testament. The Letter to the Romans is considered the most central and comprehensive of all of his writing. He was the most dynamic and peripatetic of all of the first interpreters of the Christian message. Whereas the Gospel writers were careful to relate theological meanings to the detailed events of the life of Jesus and his sayings, Paul took the opposite approach. He extracted the theological meaning of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and elaborated it into the foundational understanding of the Christian experience not only of the first century A.D. but for every Christian since then.

Letter to the Romans Part 5

St. Paul's writings comprise a large part of the New Testament. The Letter to the Romans is considered the most central and comprehensive of all of his writing. He was the most dynamic and peripatetic of all of the first interpreters of the Christian message. Whereas the Gospel writers were careful to relate theological meanings to the detailed events of the life of Jesus and his sayings, Paul took the opposite approach. He extracted the theological meaning of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and elaborated it into the foundational understanding of the Christian experience not only of the first century A.D. but for every Christian since then.

Letter to the Romans Part 4

St. Paul's writings comprise a large part of the New Testament. The Letter to the Romans is considered the most central and comprehensive of all of his writing. He was the most dynamic and peripatetic of all of the first interpreters of the Christian message. Whereas the Gospel writers were careful to relate theological meanings to the detailed events of the life of Jesus and his sayings, Paul took the opposite approach. He extracted the theological meaning of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and elaborated it into the foundational understanding of the Christian experience not only of the first century A.D. but for every Christian since then.

Letter to the Romans Part 3

St. Paul's writings comprise a large part of the New Testament. The Letter to the Romans is considered the most central and comprehensive of all of his writing. He was the most dynamic and peripatetic of all of the first interpreters of the Christian message. Whereas the Gospel writers were careful to relate theological meanings to the detailed events of the life of Jesus and his sayings, Paul took the opposite approach. He extracted the theological meaning of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and elaborated it into the foundational understanding of the Christian experience not only of the first century A.D. but for every Christian since then.

Letter to the Romans Part 2

St. Paul's writings comprise a large part of the New Testament. The Letter to the Romans is considered the most central and comprehensive of all of his writing. He was the most dynamic and peripatetic of all of the first interpreters of the Christian message. Whereas the Gospel writers were careful to relate theological meanings to the detailed events of the life of Jesus and his sayings, Paul took the opposite approach. He extracted the theological meaning of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and elaborated it into the foundational understanding of the Christian experience not only of the first century A.D. but for every Christian since then.

Letter to the Romans Part 1

St. Paul's writings comprise a large part of the New Testament. The Letter to the Romans is considered the most central and comprehensive of all of his writing. He was the most dynamic and peripatetic of all of the first interpreters of the Christian message. Whereas the Gospel writers were careful to relate theological meanings to the detailed events of the life of Jesus and his sayings, Paul took the opposite approach. He extracted the theological meaning of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and elaborated it into the foundational understanding of the Christian experience not only of the first century A.D. but for every Christian since then.

The Gospel of John Part 14

At the end of the first century, the scattered Christian communities had no common creed, and anxiety about the waning link with the historical Jesus was inspiring many to grope for bedrock by searching for information about the historical Jesus. In other words, those at the turn of the first century ran the risk of falling into the trap into which many modern biblical scholars have fallen, namely, of hunting for scraps of evidence about the historical Jesus. In response to this dire possibility, the author of John’s Gospel told his community of the cosmic meaning of Jesus’ life. John understood perhaps at a deeper level than the other evangelists — and at a level comparable to that of Paul — the truly radical revolution that the gospels were announcing to the world.

The Gospel of John Part 13

At the end of the first century, the scattered Christian communities had no common creed, and anxiety about the waning link with the historical Jesus was inspiring many to grope for bedrock by searching for information about the historical Jesus. In other words, those at the turn of the first century ran the risk of falling into the trap into which many modern biblical scholars have fallen, namely, of hunting for scraps of evidence about the historical Jesus. In response to this dire possibility, the author of John’s Gospel told his community of the cosmic meaning of Jesus’ life. John understood perhaps at a deeper level than the other evangelists — and at a level comparable to that of Paul — the truly radical revolution that the gospels were announcing to the world.

The Gospel of John Part 12

At the end of the first century, the scattered Christian communities had no common creed, and anxiety about the waning link with the historical Jesus was inspiring many to grope for bedrock by searching for information about the historical Jesus. In other words, those at the turn of the first century ran the risk of falling into the trap into which many modern biblical scholars have fallen, namely, of hunting for scraps of evidence about the historical Jesus. In response to this dire possibility, the author of John’s Gospel told his community of the cosmic meaning of Jesus’ life. John understood perhaps at a deeper level than the other evangelists — and at a level comparable to that of Paul — the truly radical revolution that the gospels were announcing to the world.

The Gospel of John Part 11

At the end of the first century, the scattered Christian communities had no common creed, and anxiety about the waning link with the historical Jesus was inspiring many to grope for bedrock by searching for information about the historical Jesus. In other words, those at the turn of the first century ran the risk of falling into the trap into which many modern biblical scholars have fallen, namely, of hunting for scraps of evidence about the historical Jesus. In response to this dire possibility, the author of John’s Gospel told his community of the cosmic meaning of Jesus’ life. John understood perhaps at a deeper level than the other evangelists — and at a level comparable to that of Paul — the truly radical revolution that the gospels were announcing to the world.