Benjamin's Tribe: Gospels

Monday, February 21, 2011

Gospels

On John and the gospels..."We related the first chapter the last chapter and marvelled that the same Eternal Word which was with the Father in the Beginning had become the man Jesus whose name would fill the libraries of the universe... The genealogies prove Jesus to hail from the tribe of Judah; yet he is without father or genealogy. The sayings prove him to be a genius; yet he gives back his genius for the comprehensive Spirit of the Church. The miracles prove him to be a cosmic force; yet, this cosmic force does not dominate but serves. And the prophecies prove him to be the Fruit of the Lips of all the peoples of the world; yet he is a person, a man in space and time, the personal friend of John."

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

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VIDEOS TO WATCH: *Updated March 2011- Like Dandelion Dust, Get Low, Faith Like Potatoes, Definitely not PG but PG-13 for a gut-wrenching accidental death of a 10 year old. Good movie though.. Based on a true story, the death scene..actually, rescues the movie from an unrealistic sentimentalism. Cinderella Man, Molokai: The Story of Father Damien, BBC Bleak House, BBC Martin Chuzzlewit, Life is Beautiful, The Young Victoria, Toy Story 3, Porco Rosso, The Chorus, Something the Lord Made, BBC Sense and Sensibility, Ushpizin, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (use caution with these foreign french films), About a Boy, Gran Torino (*use caution) The Blind Side, In the Shadow of the Moon, Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring (**avoid one clip entirely by anticipating it when a girl is taking an outside bath--Manon of the Spring film only) Slumdog Millionare, Babbett's Feast, Lord of the Rings (esp. Fellowship of Ring) Bella, Fireproof, Dark Knight, Planet Earth, Stranger than Fiction
GOOD MUSIC: Sufjan Stevens, Cantus Christi, Jack Johnson, Thomas Tallis, Gregorian Chant, Antiochian Chant, Some of Matt Pond PA, Some Norah Jones, Alison Krauss, Martin Luther, David
GREAT books: the Word of God, The Sociology of the Church, Luke: for Everyone, A Great Mystery, Perelandra, The Holy Trinity, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Canon Press family series, The Principle of Protestantism, The Reformation in England, Leadership and Self-Deception, Good to Great, Revolution by Ron Paul, Worship by Hughes Oliphant Old, Primeval Saints, the Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, All the Trouble in the World, Bobos in Paradise, The Ecclesiastical Text, Lectures to My Students, Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, and that's probably good for now