tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post6525749807215135045..comments2024-03-29T06:58:28.383+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Biding with Biden or Trumped by Trump? This is THE week! Also, Sacks on Genesis.Peter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-50244616400991785732020-11-08T19:32:04.767+13:002020-11-08T19:32:04.767+13:00This comment has come from Bowman Walton:
From no...This comment has come from Bowman Walton:<br /><br />From noon on January 20, 2021, the POTUS will be the Democratic candidate, Joseph R Biden.<br /><br />In the past century, incumbent presidents were not reelected in 1932, 1980, 1992, and now 2020.<br /><br />In elections for the Congress, Republicans regained a few seats in the House and lost a few in the Senate. The majority party in the Senate will not be known until two runoff elections are held in Georgia.<br /><br />These facts are patient of a minimal conclusion: America has removed a president who was unable to perform his duties, but states favoring his party have not repudiated his allies in Congress. <br /><br />As long expected, Trump himself has lost, but Trumpism has survived. Into what shape the American right will shift remains to be seen. <br /><br />BW Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-85953719327733225802020-11-07T17:30:34.448+13:002020-11-07T17:30:34.448+13:00"I wonder what the O.T. Prophets would have s..."I wonder what the O.T. Prophets would have said about the Rule of Trump!"<br /><br />Thank you, Father Ron, for an interesting question that is deeper than at first appears. <br /><br />In church, we most read the prophets who spoke to Israel on YHWH's behalf as his covenanted spouse. Here up yonder, there has long been a Puritan tradition of preaching that sees North America as a new Canaan. But can we compare kings of Israel to presidents of a secular state? To me, this US : Israel :: North America : Canaan analogy seems badly forced. In practice, it has sometimes been genocidal.<br /><br />We mainly hear the chroniclers of Israel's monarchy in midweek readings of the daily office. However, they may be the biblical writers most attracted to the POTUS and other politicians as a topic. Their curiosity was a philosophical one about how post-Fall human beings who know the Creator of all bear power in a state modeled (despite his warnings) on those of other nations. In that way, they are like, yet unlike, say Tacitus who also chronicles much misrule, but sees its cause as more cultural (ie the decay of antique Roman virtue) than cosmic (ie the human capability for stable, just states is impaired). <br /><br />Least of all do we hear the words of YHWH that prophets addressed to other states of the ancient Near East not descended from Abraham. Had a whale not swallowed Jonah, many of us might not know that YHWH had ever addressed cities like Nineveh who worshipped other gods. Are these the prophets he would send today to America and other secular states? If so, since they say little about governance, they might criticise our officers less than our mores.<br /><br />BWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-55358173759733681522020-11-03T15:49:17.380+13:002020-11-03T15:49:17.380+13:00I don't about the OT prophets but Paul might h...I don't about the OT prophets but Paul might have said something like, "in our human weakness, God's strength is manifest!" Kublai7777https://www.blogger.com/profile/06280358484984982599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-5261175203497937782020-11-02T10:38:44.158+13:002020-11-02T10:38:44.158+13:00I may be wrong, but I think that most Episcopalian...I may be wrong, but I think that most Episcopalians up yonder will be voting for Joe Biden - a man of peace(and a tru Believer in Christ).<br /><br />I wonder what the O.T.Prophets would have said about the Rule of Trump!Father Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17062632692873621258noreply@blogger.com