My last blog reflected an immediate reaction to the events going on in Canadian politics right now. On further reflection I have come to a personal position that the concept of the coalition government taking over would have been a democratic move under the Canadian Parliamentary system. Earlier today, however, Governor General Michaëlle Jean, after consulting with [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Judaism’
March 4, 2008
The Collapse of YHWH
Shu, the god of the air, upholds Nut, the sky-goddess, while Geb, the earth-god, reclines under Nut. The website where I found this argues that this structure is similar to Israelite cosmology, although I must argue that it is similar only in so far as Shu is a YHWH equivalent, along with Ba’al and Marduk [...]
January 29, 2008
on the plain sense of scripture and the way we read
The perspicuity of scripture has been a main tenet of Protestant biblical hermeneutics since the Reformation era, and can be seen particularly in Martin Luther’s well known Sola Scriptura doctrinal/hermeneutical principle. Luther was appealing to the unique nature of the Bible’s intrinsic authority, while rejecting any extra-biblical traditions tacked on by the Catholic church. Luther, [...]
