D. R. MacDonald - Writings

A serious play on pervasive 20th C concerns: how to be right without making your right into wrong! Can we learn to distinguish the application of a universal to the particular without forcing generality on all?

Romans (2004.12.18 - last updated 2005.05.22)

A study of Romans using Barth, Nanos, Esler, Dunn, and Barrett, with input from others.

Breakfast Time (2005.05.06)

Josh, Pete, and Johnnie Mark go to the city

Notes on John (2004.05.07)

Temple Symbolism in the 4th Gospel (after Coloe and Hanhart among others)

Flesh and Bone (2005.04.03)

Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God

Gibson's Passion (2004.02.26)

A review of The Passion of the Christ

Attempt at a simple report (2005.02.20)

What I did on my holidays

Fire on the Earth

A course on the Death of Jesus Apr-May 03

Data Structure

A pdf of a data structure for a textual analysis database - partly tested

Revelation (2003.01.15)

Word and Structure in Revelation - an ongoing research project (updated 2003.03.11)

A Preliminary Christology

First attempt at an 'academic' paper rather than a story (Dec 2001 - Feb 2002)

Blood and the Covenants (2002.10.04)

How did first century people respond to blood and sacrifice?

Life after death (Oct 1999)

Some questions for the St John's Seekers group

Hebrews

A course and discussion list (Post Easter 2002 - April -May at St John's)

Story

Bibliography

Earlier Writings and Other Sites
The Powers that Be (Oct 1999) On Bonhoeffer's Mandates; an essay for the Global Ethic		Essay
Animal as soul (1998) Answer to the medieval question on the soul of the beast		Essay
Answer to Spong (1998) A playful response to a fair radicalism that has become intolerant of its base		Essay
Crosstalk (1998) Before I knew better than to speak		Essay
The Nature of Time (1997) Letter to an unknown professor		Essay
On the subject of rights (1997-8) Essays Inspired by the Camellia (there were 4 but I lost one...sniff)		Essays
After Origen (1996) From an unpublished letter to the editor of the Anglican Journal		Essay
Saturday Afternoon at YDC One of Amy's stories		Story
Bob's Bio	Resume
2001.12.20 Redefining Success - a film on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Please email me if you want to see the film. James provided some of the music for the film. This takes about 20 minutes on a fast connection to download (95MB). Quick time for windows or equivalent is required.
Rereading the Scripture (2003.09.11)	An article that frees from narrow interpretations while respecting the revelation.
Primer	Pages specializing in the Synoptic Problem - an introduction
Gospel Parallels	Online multi column views of the passages of the Gospels that are similar
The New Testament Gateway	Maintained by Mark Goodacre of Birmingham University.
Paul on Paul	Analysis of the letters, extracting the biographical details.
Into His Own	Background to the first century in the Middle East
Early Writings	Online text of many early works
	Old Testament 'Gateway'

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