Various by YP0534

[YP0534]

I've started twice before now to open this thread and I hit the "What Was I Thinking?" button on both occasions.

Two main problems:

1) The vanity that I should even suppose someone would care to read my musings as things occur to me. Alan just helped me out with that by saying he got something out of my previous posts on ekklesia around here.

2) Where to begin? Some of my poorly organized thinking is already on display here and there around this site and the other but I've continued to move on a bit from those end points and it seems like just starting in the middle to post something here.

Just this week I've dipped a toe into the so-called "New Perspectives on Paul" debates between Wright and Carson (at the suggestion of some others) and I've got huge issues with both of those camps (as represented by those individuals - if that's a fair characterization) but I think my musings aren't really in alignment with either side of the thing. (Carson makes some good points about Wright but he doesn't do as good a job as he pretends. Meantime, Wright himself seems to have a deep interest in issues of social justice, apparently even to the exclusion of the spiritual realities of the Christian life.)

So, I've got those old musings on ekklesia plus more recent considerations of so-called "church offices" plus my current considerations of Paul's potential religious influences.

And I was just about to hit the "What Was I Thinking?" button yet again but decided to just post this and therefore have a convenient place to post the next time something is on my mind and heart.

I guess a monologue format can eliminate the problem of my posts stifling the on-going conversation, as they do everywhere else.

I only hope something worthwhile will come about.