This will be a very short posting because today is Sunday. When we look at the Jewish Liturgical Year, at the Gospels, and at the Early Church Fathers, the Jewish Liturgical Year is seen as a foreshadowing of what Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself would do. And, thus, it was considered unnecessary to celebrate feasts of […]
A denominational aside
Let me take a denominational aside before I continue on with typology the next day. Below is something that I posted on another blog. In passing the World Christian Database run from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary shows the USA as having the highest number of Christian denominations within its national borders. The second highest number of […]
Typology or Allegory and the Jewish Liturgical Year, part 02
In the previous discussion I mentioned how allegory is regularly used within all branches of Christendom. Some use it more than others. For those who do not wish to admit that they use allegory, they rename it typology. As I commented on my previous post, allegory has some rather good antecedents, since it was Jesus […]
St. Peter’s Basilica
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Typology or Allegory and the Jewish Liturgical Year, part 01
OK, we have been talking about the fulfillment of the Jewish liturgical year and why it is not observed, which took us into the subject of typology/allegory. So what is typology/allegory? Well, first, there is a great debate as to whether there is any difference between typology and allegory. At best, it is a difference […]
Quick prayer request
I do not know if I will be able to post today. I have a couple of people in the hospital just out of intensive care or the emergency room, and one in hospice. On top of that, being a Wednesday in Lent, I both have a Bible Study and an evening Lenten service. So, […]
No trial for Yoo
I am a strong believer in human rights, particularly the right of free speech. This is why I am troubled by some of the media and Congressional response today to the release of some of the memos written for the Justice Department in 2003 by John Yoo. Those memos are those that supported the contentions […]
To Sabbatarian or not to Sabbatarian, actually there is no question
Why did Peter and John (and presumably every Apostolic-generation believer) still keep the Sabbath if our Lord meant for the first day of the week to become the new Sabbath? Did the Apostles get it wrong? . . . Sunday only became the new day of rest when the successive generations developed amnesia about the […]
Synagogue and developing tradition
Scott pointed out that the Early Church followed the synagogue model of worship and quickly developed a Temple/Synagogue pattern to their worship. This actually should not be in the least surprising, since Our Lord Jesus Christ is Jewish. When on earth, he worshiped as a Jewish believer, attending both Synagogue (beyt knesset) and Temple. Sacrifices […]
Of monkeys and watermelons
This past week a mayor in California sent out the above picture in an email saying that there would be no Easter Egg hunt this year at the White House. Now, as you know, about two weeks ago, a mayor metropolitan newspaper published an editorial cartoon that showed an assassinated monkey as the author of […]
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