#john woolman

[churchblogmatics-blog]

A DEFINITIVE but nonexhaustive list of theologians/Christian thinkers and associated brat status

Athanasius - literally impossible to imagine Christianity without his contributions, unquestionably brat

Augustine - smarter than all hell, the confessions is essential reading, his corpus is a succinct compendium of theological orthodoxy, you know he's brat

Anselm of Canterbury - satisfaction theory is actually more plausible to me than penal substitution, the ontological argument is pure lunacy but is the kind of magical thinking that I'm sad to see disappear once people started systematizing "logic" and "reason" after the enlightenment. Brat.

Thomas Aquinas - I'm kind of more inclined to platonism than aristotlianism but he's brat for this excerpt of the summa alone: “If some are occasionally begotten from demons, it is not from the seed of such demons, nor from their assumed bodies, but from the seed of men taken for the purpose; as when the demon assumes first the form of a woman, and afterward of a man.” In this case, the offspring would be fully human, “so that the person born is not the child of a demon but of a man” (ST I:51:3 ad 6)." Like c'mon that's so funny but also probably saved some childrens' lives if their parents didn't want to 'fess up to having an affair.

Thomas Á Kempis - I wish I could cultivate the humility of spirit he writes about in The Imitation of Christ! This guy knows what's up! Brat!

Martin Luther - Do you know how antisemitic you have to be in order to be remembered as antisemitic even if graded on a curve relative to his cultural context? Even his principled refusal to lean into double predestination despite it's logical coherence & consubstantiative view of the sacrament of the Eucharist won't save him from being pronounced decidedly un-brat.

John Calvin - way better than his devotees, more legitimate human compassionate distress at double predestination than the vastly inferior ulrich zwingli - brat.

Ulrich Zwingli - goes without saying - un-brat.

John Woolman - went hard in the paint to fight the transatlantic slave trade his whole life. Y'all could only DREAM of walking in humble submission before God in service of your fellow man like this. Brat.

Friedrich Schleiermacher - oh so Christianity is all about absolute dependence? That's what it is? Conjuring up feelings of absolute dependence? Get real! Not brat.

Soren Kierkegaard - Absolutely goated. Love to read a guy excoriating Christian nationalism. He's so brat for that.

Karl Barth - this page is called the Church Blogmatics so you already know what I'm thinking on this one. His doctrine of election makes me able to sleep at night and his understanding of theology as a living, breathing science makes me want to engage with it. Brat.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - the absolute height of liberal theology and redeems it as something potentially profitable imo - brat.

[theinwardlight]

The outward modes of worship are various; but whenever any are true ministers of Jesus Christ, it is from the operation of His Spirit upon their hearts, first purifying them, and thus giving them a just sense of the conditions of others. This truth was early fixed in my mind, and I was taught to watch the pure opening, and to take heed lest, while I was standing to speak, my own will should get uppermost, and cause me to utter words from worldly wisdom, and depart from the channel of the true gospel ministry.

John Woolman (1720-72), from his Journal

[woundgallery]

Our gracious Creator cares and provides for all his creatures. His tender mercies are over all his works; and so far as his love influences our minds, so far we become interested in his workmanship and feel a desire to take hold of every opportunity to lessen the distresses of the afflicted and increase the happiness of the creation. Here we have a prospect of one common interest from which our own is inseparable, that to turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives… Oppression in the extreme appears terrible: but oppression in more refined appearances remains to be oppression; and where the smallest degree of it is cherished it grows stronger and more extensive. To labour for a perfect redemption from this spirit of oppression is the great business of the whole family of Christ Jesus in this world.

John Woolman, 1763

[ladywashingtonslightdragoons]

John Woolman is such a weird girl and I love him

[st-just]

"I made gentle fun of [John] Woolman for his guilt about reading books and going sledding with his childhood friends. But all of his childhood friends grew up to own or trade slaves. Of course he’s skeptical of nice food and nice clothes, sleighs and ice skates. His friends, good people, people he loved, liked these seemingly innocent pleasures—and so to pay for them, they bought people who were violently kidnapped away from their families and carried to a foreign land, forced them to work from dawn to dusk, underfed them and dressed them in rags, sold their children away from them, tortured them, and supported laws that ensured that all this would continue forever. From Woolman’s point of view, to oppose slavery, you have to hate torturing innocent people more than you like ice skating. It turns out this is very hard and people mostly don’t."

-Ozy Brennan, On John Woolman

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

It Happened Today in Christian History

October 7, 1772: Death of John Woolman, an American Quaker. He had traveled through the thirteen American colonies preaching against the draft, taxes for military equipment, ill treatment of Indians, and slavery. His simple life and godly writings earned him great respect.

[i-got-the-feels]

Athee

Hunter S Thompson/John Woolman/Gabriela Mistral/John Locke/Unknown/Harriet Lerner

[clunelover]

Hm, the kids are very meh on going to friends meeting today - they said it was fun when first day school was just playing around, but now that there’s a curriculum it’s boring. I said to Jeremy let’s just see how today goes before we decide anything, because last week (or no, I guess it was two weeks ago, we missed last week for memorial) sounded uniquely boring, with pretend John Woolman coming out of the "Time Machine," and Jeremy said "no, that’s part of series…two or three more weeks will have other historical figures coming out of it"…so…hm…I think there’s value to continuing to try, but also I don’t want to be a family where kids are forced to go to some kind of Sunday services every week, and hate it!

[ka1rosnan]

꧁En todos nuestros tratos ꧂ 28 de diciembre de 2022 La Biblia en un año: Zacarías 5–8; Apocalipsis 19 … el testimonio de nuestra conciencia [es] que con sencillez y sinceridad de Dios […] nos hemos conducido… (v. 12). Lee por favor: 2 Corintios 1:12-16 En 1524, Martín Lutero señaló: «Los mercaderes tienen entre sí una regla en común que es su máxima principal […]: No me importa nada de mi prójimo, en tanto obtenga mi beneficio y satisfaga mi codicia». Más de 200 años después, John Woolman, de Mount Holly, Nueva Jersey, permitió que su compromiso con Jesús influyera en su negocio de sastrería. Para apoyar la liberación de los esclavos, se negó a comprar algodón o materiales para tintura a compañías que usaban el trabajo forzado. Con una conciencia limpia, amó a su prójimo y vivió con integridad en todos sus tratos. El apóstol Pablo se esforzaba por vivir «con sencillez y sinceridad de Dios» (2 Corintios 1:12). Cuando algunos corintios intentaron socavar su autoridad como apóstol de Jesús, defendió su conducta diciendo que sus palabras y acciones podían resistir el escrutinio más minucioso (v. 13). También mostró que dependía del poder y la gracia de Dios para ser eficaz (v. 12). En resumen, la fe de Pablo impregnaba todo su proceder. Al vivir como embajadores de Cristo, asegurémonos de que el evangelio resuene en todas nuestras actividades: familia, negocios y demás. Cuando revelamos el amor de Dios a otros, lo honramos a Él y a nuestros prójimos. En la víspera del cierre de un ciclo, en el tiempo de pensar en nuestros propósitos para el nuevo año, pensemos en hacer cosas agradables para nuestro Señor Jesucristo, pensemos en ser grato aroma a Él, ten bendecido día donde estés y con quien estés, shalom ! -Marvin Williams Reflexiona y ora: ¿Cómo representan tus palabras y acciones tu fe en Jesús? ¿Por qué la sencillez y la sinceridad son vitales en tu trato con los demás? https://www.instagram.com/p/CmtsK_auM2G/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hoursofreading]

I was early convinced in my mind that true religion consisted in an inward life wherein the heart doth love and reverence God the Creator and learns to exercise true justice and goodness not only toward all men but also toward the brute creation; that as the mind was moved on an inward principle to love God as an invisible, incomprehensible being, on the same principle it was moved to love him in all his manifestations in the visible world; that as by his breath the flame of life was kindled in all animal and sensitive creatures, to say we love God … and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature … was a contradiction in itself.

John Woolman

[thisdaysthought]

This Day's Thought-Monday

I looked upon the works of God in this visible creation, and an awfulness covered me; my heart was tender and often contrite, and a universal love to my fellow creatures was increased in me. John Woolman But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the message might be preached fully through me, and that all the Gentiles might hear. 2 Timothy 4:17 The New King James Version Constant…

[churchblogmatics-blog]

Books for spiritual formation

Books that have left an indelible mark on my understanding of God or the Christian faith in some way. My spiritual development is unfinished, so this list is unfinished - I'm always open to suggestions

Soren Kierkegaard

The Sickness Unto Death - Explained how sin works psychologically, illustrates how it can be its own punishment

Works of Love - What it means to love, what it costs, what it gives us

Fear and Trembling - What faith means, its miraculous nature

Karl Barth

Evangelical Theology - What theology actually means, how the gospel is good news

The Epistle to the Romans - Shows the need for continual reformation of thought within the church, introduced (to me) the idea of God's freedom in communication to man

Church Dogmatics II.2 - Election is good news! It is God willing to choose humanity despite sin - universal reconciliation can and should be hoped for

The Journal of John Woolman

What undying commitment to justice means, what it looks like

Martin Luther King Jr

Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Made me understand how Romans 13:1 can be integrated into radical politics

A Gift of Love - Brought to life 1 John 4:20

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

A narrative illustration of unwavering faith

The Imitation of Christ, Thomas Kempis

What we're saved to, salvation has a telos

Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood - Life without Christ, the perils of sola scriptura

A Good Man is Hard to Find - Shows grace as an intrusive lived experience

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead novels (Gilead, Home, Lila) - Rich illustration of Imago Dei

When I Was a Child I Read Books - Bolstered my understanding of the 8th commandment (reading with charitable intent, in interactions with others in life and on the page)

What Are We Doing Here? - Illustrates what the glory of God means in daily experience

Garry Wills

What Paul Meant - Paul and Jesus were of a unified mind, stop reading Paul as a bible thumper, start reading him as a man who loved dearly and wrote with urgency on live issues

Religio Medici, Thomas Browne

Ecumenism is a beautiful thing and should be strived for in all Christian communities

The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton

The gospel brings peace of mind and soul, searching for peace is a valid epistemology

Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt

Wickedness is not inevitable, it arises from moral and intellectual sluggardliness

The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Learn to love the church, it is the arms of Christ; great exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount; great companion to the book of James

White Evangelical Racism, Anthea Butler

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by racism at the root

Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes du Mez

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by misogyny at the root

C.S. Lewis

The Great Divorce - Eternity begins now, sin is its own punishment and grace is its own reward

Till We Have Faces - God has compassion and patience for those who wrestle with him, to summon the boldness to contend with God can be a blessed thing

The Courage to Be, Paul Tillich

The dynamics of Christian faith explained in the abstract

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

The thinness of intellectual assent, the richness of faith

The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker

Explanation of the existential need faith meets in the language of continental philosophy

Confessions, St. Augustine

The most theologically and philosophically rich testimony besides that of St. Paul

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity, Jonathan Edwards

What is the trinity, why is it important

John Milton

Areopagitica - Enforced virtue means nothing

Paradise Lost - Human beings are worth saving even if they aren't deserving of God's favor

Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud

Illustrates the necessity of grace by exploring a world through the assumption of its absence (excellent foil to A Gift of Love)

[theinwardlight]

I felt at times a disposition that would have sought for something greater [than my trade as a tailor]; but through the revelation of Jesus Christ I had seen the happiness of humility, and there was an earnest desire in me to enter deeply into it; at times this desire arose to a degree of fervent supplication, wherein my soul was so environed with heavenly light and consolation that things were made easy to me which had been otherwise.

John Woolman, from his Journal

[crecimiento-espiritual]

dic. 28

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En todos nuestros tratos

Marvin Williams

… el testimonio de nuestra conciencia [es] que con sencillez y sinceridad de Dios […] nos hemos conducido… (v. 12).

Porque nuestra gloria es esta: el testimonio de nuestra conciencia, que con sencillez y sinceridad de Dios, no con sabiduría humana, sino con la gracia de Dios, nos hemos conducido en el mundo, y mucho más con vosotros. 13 Porque no os escribimos otras cosas de las que leéis, o también entendéis; y espero que hasta el fin las entenderéis; 14 como también en parte habéis entendido que somos vuestra gloria, así como también vosotros la nuestra, para el día del Señor Jesús.

15 Con esta confianza quise ir primero a vosotros, para que tuvieseis una segunda gracia, 16 y por vosotros pasar a Macedonia, y desde Macedonia venir otra vez a vosotros, y ser encaminado por vosotros a Judea.

2 Corintios 1:12-16

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En 1524, Martín Lutero señaló: «Los mercaderes tienen entre sí una regla en común que es su máxima principal […]: No me importa nada de mi prójimo, en tanto obtenga mi beneficio y satisfaga mi codicia». Más de 200 años después, John Woolman, de Mount Holly, Nueva Jersey, permitió que su compromiso con Jesús influyera en su negocio de sastrería. Para apoyar la liberación de los esclavos, se negó a comprar algodón o materiales para tintura a compañías que usaban el trabajo forzado. Con una conciencia limpia, amó a su prójimo y vivió con integridad en todos sus tratos.

El apóstol Pablo se esforzaba por vivir «con sencillez y sinceridad de Dios» (2 Corintios 1:12). Cuando algunos corintios intentaron socavar su autoridad como apóstol de Jesús, defendió su conducta diciendo que sus palabras y acciones podían resistir el escrutinio más minucioso (v. 13). También mostró que dependía del poder y la gracia de Dios para ser eficaz (v. 12). En resumen, la fe de Pablo impregnaba todo su proceder.

Al vivir como embajadores de Cristo, asegurémonos de que el evangelio resuene en todas nuestras actividades: familia, negocios y demás. Cuando revelamos el amor de Dios a otros, lo honramos a Él y a nuestros prójimos.

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[griseldagimpel]

Scar’s Master

I said this on Twitter previously, but I really wish that Scar’s Master in Fullmetal Alchemist had offered better alternative’s to Scar’s Revenge Path.

Because historically, in real life, you’ve got people like John Woolman who decided that his fellow Quakers shouldn’t be slave-owners and so started going door to door with his Quaker neighbors and, well, convinced them to free their slaves and give them back pay.

And then in fiction in Fullmetal Alchemist, on one hand you’ve got Scar very specifically offing the people who’d be most responsible for the next genocide Bradley orders, and on the other hand, you’ve got his Master telling him he’s wrong and saying that they need to be angry at injustice but doesn’t formulate a clear course of action.

And yes, this is still about my silly Fullmetal Alchemist - Lion King crossover fan fic.

[professorgtnt]