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Shot across the bow: open.substack.com/pub/jordanda...

I’m in the (Catholic) news: www.usccb.org/news/2025/ra...

Rahner is famous for the identity of economic and immanent Trinity. Here he explains that this identity is what Hegel would call a speculative proposition: an identity which includes difference as its self-difference. A living sameness which produces and sublates otherness.

I honestly didn’t intend to write this, but I ended up spending all day doing so. Just couldn’t shake it. open.substack.com/pub/jordanda...

Some of what I’ve up to lately: open.substack.com/pub/jordanda...

Ut Unum Sint

Extremely lucid. Hell, I learned some things about my own work! open.substack.com/pub/awildlog...

Co-sign, and not just about the thread but also about the book. Get it asap.

It’s a Good Friday to re-post this thread correcting a common—and gravely mistaken—view of Jesus’s crucifixion!

If you’re into this sort of thing (and you should be, obviously): open.substack.com/pub/jordanda...

Okay now Sens. Cory Booker and Chris Coons (a Yale Divinity School grad) are literally just having a lengthy discussion of scripture and the Bible on the Senate floor right now. Religious left: still a thing.

Rereading DBH’s Stanton Lectures and it’s wild how absurd his caricature of my views gets as he goes! Perhaps it’s a sort of hazing ritual.

If you’re into this sort of thing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Slow but steady

A little primer on Neo-Chalcedonian Christology open.substack.com/pub/jordanda...

C’est parti

“The final restoration will make the memory of all evils utterly vanish in our nature, in our Lord Jesus Christ.” St Gregory of Nyssa First Homily on Ecclesiastes (one of my all-time faves)

I’m high on this music.apple.com/us/album/fra...

Yes—who indeed is so unfamiliar?

"There are Christians today who want to save the material first: schools and works of all kinds. But what is all this worth, in the eyes of God, if all this is not the incarnation of the spirit of His Son?" H. Lubac (Témoignage chrétien, L’antisémitisme et la conscience chrétienne, April-May 1942).

Don’t know how to ask this delicate question, but: Has anyone written on the way critical NT scholarship, even and especially that intends to reaffirm the forgotten Jewish character of the NT, inadvertently tends to deny the dynamism and complexity of Jewish tradition post-NT or post-Talmud?

What are exemplary works that critique the doctrine of theosis from the vantage of defending “finitude” or “creatureliness,” i.e. that such a doctrine rejects the gift of finitude we’re supposed humbly to receive and/or manifests a prideful desire for mastery over finitude?

“In chronos there is no illumination. Temporality is fallen. There is a darkness that cannot comprehend and participate in the operation of grace. In chronos there is only Macbeth’s ‘tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.’” Graham Ward

One win this semester was seeing how easily students saw the self-indulgent absurdity in one of our course texts—two scientists laying out a new origin myth based on science alone—when it claimed both “Your birth was a happy accident” and “we matter to the universe.”

Props to @petromohyla.bsky.social, with whom I taught the course this lecture comes from. We’re thinking of doing a little book… open.substack.com/pub/jordanda...

So glad I’m not in San Diego whew boi

Do I stay on here though?

Plato is the greatest skeptic ever, which is why he’s useful for every dogmatism.

OPs teaching my daughters naive realism smdh

Well, I haven’t been on here in a year. Lots has happened since. I’m now an assistant prof of theology at Belmont University in Nashville. I also wrote this little essay about ghosts: open.substack.com/pub/jordanda...

Hi

I’m just glad I haven’t yet encountered certain OPs on here, that’s a +

Is anyone really on this app?