Foolish Sage | March 7, 2010
An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible by Walter Brueggemann
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Brueggemann forces us to unblinkingly confront the God actually presented in the Old Testament, not the God we wish was there via the colored glasses of our Western rationalistic theology. He shows us that the Israelite conception of [...]
Foolish Sage | October 8, 2009
An old piece of folk wisdom says that if you don’t want to offend, there are two topics you never mention in polite company: politics and religion. Rock music has never much worried about polite company, and giving offense is often its raison d’etre. However, historically rock has far more often tread on the toes [...]
Foolish Sage | September 30, 2009
A quick congratulations to my wife for being recognized in a special post by Dr. Jim West on his blog. According to Biblioblog Top 50, Dr. West’s blog is month-in-month-out the most read and linked-to blog in the world of biblical studies blogging (biblioblogging, as they call it).
Dr. West came upon my wife’s biblioblog Boulders2Bits [...]
Foolish Sage | September 23, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Manifold Witness by John Franke»
I’m beginning a series of posts that will interact with the new book by John Franke, Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth. John Franke is The Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, PA. He is [...]
Foolish Sage | June 21, 2009
I’ve been tagged by my friend JD on his Ad Fontes blog to come up with the five books (or scholars) who have most influenced me in how I read the Bible. (I’m returning to the narrower parsing of this meme given by its creator, biblioblogger Ken Brown.)
Even after a seminary education, I’m not a [...]
Foolish Sage | June 8, 2009
Cover via Amazon
I’m home sick today (nasty head cold) and mostly lying in bed, listening to Eugene Peterson’s The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways that Jesus Is the Way on audio.
Much of the book is striking me as a practical/pastoral meditation on the implications of the cruciform ethics laid out in a series [...]
Foolish Sage | March 3, 2009
[The Bible] is not God’s word because it somehow manages to extricate itself from its historical setting or ancient conventions of communication, by the skin of its teeth. We are in no position to declare what genres of literature the Spirit can or can’t use, and our theological comfort level is not a determining factor [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of resurrections and that which is already (but not yet). Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and currently freelances as an Internet marketer.
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