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Honduran Coup Reveals Crisis of Democracy in the United States as Well
Three weeks have passed since the military coup d'état in Honduras, yet the United States has failed to join the international community in issuing a clear denunciation of the illegal overthrow of the government of Honduras. Despite a statement by President Obama calling the coup illegal and recognizing Zelaya as the legitimate president, the US State Department refuses to classify what occurred as a coup or to take decisive steps required by law, including cutting off aid to the Micheletti government. The crisis of democracy in Honduras has unmasked a crisis in the United States as well.
In an emergency visit I made to Honduras to accompany social movement leaders, people in Honduras repeatedly told me that if the United States government were truly in favor of democracy, it would send a clear signal of denunciation and the coup would collapse in a day. The failure to do so puts the United States again on the wrong side of history, in a shocking throwback to the era of US-backed military dictatorships and brutal counterinsurgency campaigns of past decades.
(Photo: Lucas / Tom Loudon)
Today's events in Honduras occur in a context of a history of US use of Honduras as a military and intelligence stronghold in the region from which counterinsurgency wars against neighboring Central American countries were launched throughout the 1970's-1980's. During the 1980's, US Ambassador to Honduras John Negroponte masterminded counterinsurgency campaigns in the region and was the virtual commander in chief of the illegal "contra" army operating in Nicaragua.
Many of us working in the region at that time witnessed atrocities carried out on the people of Central America, thanks to massive infusions of US military aid, equipment, direction and training of military leaders at the infamous School of the Americas. In Nicaragua, the contra army waged a relentless campaign of terror on the civilian population from military bases in Honduras under Negroponte's watch. By the end of the decade, US counterinsurgency campaigns in the region had left hundreds of thousands of people missing, tortured, traumatized and dead in the name of "fighting communism."
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It was in this context that the current Constitution of Honduras was written and ratified in 1982. The current Constitution is considered by Honduran social movement leaders to be a document created by the United States. According to them, the Honduran Constitution was written with a twofold intention: to sell all of Honduras and to dismantle the state.
For years, popular movements in Honduras have identified reform of the current Constitution as central to the struggle for social justice and poverty reduction in Honduras. However, this proposition is fiercely opposed by national elites and the United States government which, under the direction of John Negroponte, constructed the Constitution with the intent that it be inalterable.
The "opinion poll" scheduled for June 28, to measure levels of popular support for including a question on the ballot in November to propose a Constitutional Assembly, became the last straw for the oligarchy and the US government. They have for some time felt threatened by Zelaya's anti-poverty initiatives, openness to dialogue with social movements and participation in alternative economic integration efforts such as the ALBA. Despite a supposed change of administration in the United States, the influence of Negroponte and other right-wing extremists seems to be dominating the State Department and US foreign policy, especially in Latin America.
Social Movement Leaders Saw the Coup Coming
In meetings in Honduras, social movement leaders explained that they had seen the coup coming for months. Mr. Zelaya had started his presidency in a fairly normal fashion per Honduran tradition. He is from the Liberal Party, one of the two virtually indistinguishable mainline parties whose candidates always win the Honduran presidency. Robert Micheletti, the current, illegally installed president, is from the same Liberal Party, having lost the primary to Zelaya in the last elections, and was president of the Congress before the coup. Micheletti has wanted to be president for many years, but apparently a coup was the only way for him to achieve his aspiration.
Zelaya, a wealthy rancher and landowner, comes from the political class. After winning the 2005 election, he approached friends in the party to solicit their assistance in using his presidency to improve the situation for the desperately poor Honduras majority. When his ideas did not resonate with those in positions of power, he turned to other sectors of Honduran society who have been working for social justice for decades. Working together with social movements, Zelaya raised the minimum wage and began exploring how to recover state utilities which have been privatized under US-mandated structural adjustment, so called "free trade" and facilitated by the Honduran Constitution.
As Zelaya advocated for changes, he repeatedly found that the Constitution prohibited the measures he was proposing and contained no provision for reforming articles that impede implementation of social justice policies. Looking for a solution to these roadblocks led to the proposal for a non-binding poll of the Honduran people, to test the level of national interest in Constitutional reform, which triggered the coup.
Many believe that the original plan was to attempt the coup on June 25, three days before the poll was to take place. Social movement leaders were concentrated in Tegucigalpa, preparing to assist in the logistics of the voting process. The army had been deployed around the country for days, preparing for a standoff with the president.
(Photo: Lucas / Tom Loudon)
Suddenly, word came from the province of Colon that the UD party candidate for Congress, Fabio Evelio Ochoa, had suffered an assassination attempt. Armed men fired 27 bullets at Ochoa and left him for dead. Five bullets entered his body; however, he survived, thwarting the plan to kill him and divert the social movement leadership away from Tegucigalpa to Tocoa, Colon, to attend his funeral. The coup plotters would have then closed roads, preventing leaders from returning to Tegucigalpa and muting the response to the coup.
President Zelaya responded to the assassination attempt by sending a helicopter to bring Ochoa to the Social Security hospital where he could receive superior medical attention and security. Immediately after the coup, in the early morning hours of June 28, while the coup operation was in full swing, Ochoa was thrown out of the Social Security hospital.
Coup Leaders Mount Internal Crackdown
In a carefully orchestrated campaign to control information, at 5 a.m. on the day of the coup, the military entered nine radio and TV stations in Tegucigalpa to stop transmission. Radio outlets in other parts of the country were forcibly entered and closed as well. There has been a permanent, coordinated attempt to control information inside the country, and prevent news getting out as well. At least one journalist was killed in a drive-by shooting in San Pedro Sula after broadcasting information about the poll and popular resistance to the coup. At least two other journalists were detained by police, dozens have been threatened and some are in hiding. Television crews from Telesur and Venezuelan TV were captured and expelled.
Despite attempts to intimidate and repress popular protest through heavy militarization, curfews, suspension of civil rights, targeted assassinations and over 1,000 detentions, protests have been united, massive and sustained.
On Sunday, July 5, when Zelaya tried to fly back into Honduras; an estimated half a million people held the streets around the airport in what many are calling the largest protest in the history of Honduras. Troops shot and killed two young people who made their way onto the runway. Several others were wounded by bullets. It is reported that 160 high-power shell casings were found at the airport. Crowds defied the 5:30 p.m. curfew imposed as part of the state of siege, staying on the streets all day and all night. At 2 p.m. Monday, the police and military began advancing, firing tear gas and attacking the crowd. The crowd was forcibly dispersed after over 24 hours in the street.
(Photo: Lucas / Tom Loudon)
Last week, two targeted assassinations were reported; social movement leader Ramon Garcia and journalist Gabriel Fino. Arbitrary arrests and targeted assassinations are being used to intimidate social movement leaders, many of whom have suffered detention, torture and violent repression in past decades. Social movement leaders and Zelaya government officials are requesting international accompaniment to protect their personal security.
A campaign of intimidation is also being carried out in rural areas. The army arrives in communities that have staged protests against the coup, surrounding the community and threatening violence against residents. The community of Guadalupe Carney in Trujillo is considered to be in a situation of particularly high risk at this time. Two hundred soldiers have surrounded the community of 600 families named after a Jesuit priest who was disappeared in the 1983 counterinsurgency campaign. This community has mounted ongoing resistance to the coup and fears that community leaders are targeted for assassination.
COFADEH, the Committee of Families of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, reports that in addition to the militarization of public utilities and agencies, members of the [Battalion] 3-16 death squads responsible for the disappearances of the 1980's are being placed in public positions.
Who Is Really in Charge of US Foreign Policy?
In a flagrant defiance of widespread international condemnation of the coup, including the expulsion of Honduras from the OAS, and United Nations condemnation of the coup, the illegal Micheletti government remains in power, carrying out a campaign of repression and terror directed at journalists, social movements and communities. The government of the United States stands glaringly alone in the international community, refusing to denounce the military coup, campaign of press censorship, widespread violation of human rights and intimidation of the civilian population.
Efforts by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) to mediate the conflict have been rejected by the United States in spite of the fact that OAS is the appropriate body to do so. The US has insisted on Oscar Arias of Costa Rica to mediate, confident that he will be more supportive of US positions. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has apparently indicated that the United States will not support OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza for an additional term, sending a message of displeasure with the widespread condemnation of the coup which occurred under his leadership.
As the conflict enters into its third week and negotiations fail to advance, President Zelaya has indicated that he will enter the country secretly and begin governing clandestinely. On Saturday, July 18, Zelaya agreed to accept the seven-point proposal of President Arias to end the crisis. However, the coup government has rejected the first point, calling for the return of Zelaya to the presidency, and saying it needs time to consult on the other points. Faced with yet another breakdown in negotiations, Arias has asked for another 72-hour period to modify his proposal. Without additional external pressures, the coup government will continue to delay, dragging out negotiations in order to run out the clock to the next elections, expand the internal crackdown and wear down internal resistance.
Meanwhile, the social movements of Honduras have announced that they will be back on the streets this week, focusing their mobilizations initially on the National Congress. A national strike has been called for Thursday and Friday. The blackout on media coverage and lack of international observers raise concerns for levels of repression in the next few days.
(Photo: Lucas / Tom Loudon)
On Monday, July 20, the European Union announced that it will immediately suspend all aid, the equivalent of US $92 million, to Honduras due to Micheletti's refusal to accept the seven-point plan proposed by President Arias. The EU also stated that it will restrict contact at the political level, suspend member states' bilateral cooperation and consider other targeted measures.
On July 9, US Ambassador Hugo Llorens in Tegucigalpa told an emergency School of the Americas (SOA) Watch delegation that the US had suspended military aid to Honduras as of the moment that Micheletti swore himself in as president. However, three members of the delegation had stopped by the Palmerola military base where over 500 US soldiers are based and "witnessed an apparently normal buzz of activities, including helicopter flights and interchange of Honduran and US soldiers." The delegation spoke with a US official on duty at the base who told them that nothing had changed since the coup.
The US is also still training Honduran military officers at the US Army's School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia, despite the fact that the US Foreign Operations Act requires that US military aid and training be suspended in the event of a coup. Gen. Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, who led the coup against Zelaya, is a two-time SOA graduate and five other generals linked to the coup are SOA grads as well.
A consistent and clear message on the part of the United States, including: an unequivocal denunciation of the coup on the part of all sectors of the US government, recognition of Zelaya as the legitimate president of Honduras, immediate withdrawal of the US ambassador, suspension of military training and cooperation and the restriction of political contact with the illegal government of Micheletti would put an end to events in Honduras, send a message that the era of military takeovers and brute force is over, and put the United States on the side of democracy. The resolute refusal to do so, points to US complicity and tacit support for the coup and the internal crackdown being waged in Honduras and raises questions about who is really in charge of US foreign policy.


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UPDATE: Cantor Fitzgerald Reiterates Buy Qualcomm, Raises PT to $69
Cantor Fitzgerald has reiterated its Buy Rating on Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), Raising price target to $69 from $66.
Cantor Fitzgerald noted, "Qualcomm currently has $26.8 billion ($15.50 per share) in cash. While we would be comfortable with a 15x cash adjusted multiple on forward earnings and a 5x multiple on adjusted market cap to revenues, we choose to use more conservative numbers. As a cash adjusted P/E multiple, we use a 11x multiple on our CY:13 estimate and add back the cash to arrive at a price of $66. As an adjusted market cap to revenues multiple we use a 4x multiple (a 20% discount to five-year average) and add back the cash to arrive at a price of $72.00. Averaging and rounding up gives us a target price of $69 per share, up from our prior $66."
Qualcomm closed at $62.50 on Wednesday.
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In addition to the driver, the bus was carrying 23 students and three coaches from Seton Hill University, a Catholic school in Greensburg, Pa., turnpike spokesman Bill Capone said.
The bus was near the Carlisle interchange in central Pennsylvania when it veered off the road, crashed through a fence and slammed into a tree, killing the driver, he said.
Three passengers were flown to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where one of them died, hospital spokeswoman Danielle Ran said.
"Seton Hill University has learned that the university's head women's lacrosse coach, Kristina Quigley, died of injuries sustained in the crash. Quigley was pregnant, and her unborn baby boy died as a result of the crash as well," school spokeswoman Kary Coleman said in a statement.
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Lesslie Newbigin accepted the reality of pluralism — without accepting, as Lamin Sanneh expresses it, the "modern historical consciousness" that contextualizes and relativises all religious claims, subsuming them under the all-encompassing category of power. Under the pretense of tolerance, religion loses — as does genuine pluralism.
Lamin Sanneh (Yale Divinity School) provides one of the most incisive accounts that I have read of Newbigin's work and lifelong project to rethink Christian exclusivity within pluralist societies:
…It is not true that all roads lead to the peak of the same mountain. Some roads are false short cuts, and even if they do not lead over the precipice, they leave people self-centredly entangled. For Christians, the ultimate clue, the rock of ages, is Jesus, the one God chose to honour and to glorify the divine name, and who has gone before them in honour and faithfulness.
Newbigin makes the point with some force that religious pluralism, in the sense of competing truth claims as well as of simple numerical multiplicity, does not exclude claims of absolute uniqueness. Without some sense of objective truth people will become totally imprisoned in subjective relativism. Religion can become relativist only by turning into an ideology, in which case tolerance will become a relative value as mere expedience. There would be no independent basis for it. That is why truth claims are not convertible currency that give people personal advantage; they are not a question of will power, à la Nietzsche: you want in this case a liberating creed, so you produce the sacrosanct truth of the infallibility of revolutionary relativism and smash your way to victory by gutting truth claims, any or all of them. Will power can only produce a wilful world based on power. Its truth claim leaves no room for difference or variety, or for openness and tolerance.
The point about pluralism reducing theology into ideology is really the key to the whole thing. And now my favorite part:
To assume [pluralism] is to settle for a beguiling notion that to concede truth to the other side somehow represents an advance on mutual tolerance when in fact it only triggers an unintended domino effect: the fall of Christian uniqueness would be followed in turn by the fall of all the other claims of uniqueness. Fewer generalisations would be possible until all religions are excluded — a most unsatisfactory state of affairs in which the generalisation of exclusion, not pluralism, would be left ascendant.
[Mission in the 21st Century, eds. Andrew Walls and Cathy Ross; Orbis Books, 2008, pp. 140-141]
Image: Lesslie Newbigin (source)
The evangelical underground
June 14, 2014
This is what "tolerance" looks like:
"Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy" (Michael Paulson, New York Times, June 9, 2014)
Well, when truth claims are reduced to culturally-conditioned "norms," which are then reduced to power plays and "rituals of truth" (Foucault) — then we really shouldn't be surprised when postmodern liberalism is consistent. It is not about reason, much less tolerance in any meaningful sense. It's about reconstituting, as they would say, the cultural conditions from which "truth" arrives in human consciousness and receives its legitimacy. Power is all that really matters.
With the massive 23-campus Cal State pursuing the same course of action, in addition to half a dozen other colleges where evangelical associations have lost their official status, it looks like an "evangelical underground" is emerging in our secular academies. On the upside, a little discomfort and loss of privilege will probably do us some good.
Image: Bowdoin College, Hubbard Hall, Spring 2012
Baptists, Bulletins, and Bedtime
May 12, 2014
I so love this:
Tullian Tchividjian (Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church) has been under a lot of criticism for not sufficiently warding off antinomianism in his presentation of the gospel. I see Tchividjian as basically a Barthian, not because he is influenced by Barth (he isn't) but because he reads the Bible without illusions of his own "victorious" life. God bless him. Tchividjian really emphasizes that Christ has done everything, and he is excited about it! He thinks introspection is looking in the wrong direction.
He also dared to challenge the American moralism of his predecessor at Coral Ridge, D. James Kennedy, who spent his waning years using the American founding fathers as his (by far) most frequent sermon illustrations — yes, I'm serious. That's one more reason to love Tchividjian.
The Eerdmans edition of Charles Spurgeon's The Soul Winner includes a forward by Helmut Thielicke (1908-1986), a German Lutheran theologian and author of The Evangelical Faith in three volumes.
Thielicke begins by lamenting that few people will read widely and step across the "firmly delineated boundaries" separating the theological camps of fundamentalists, liberals, pietists, and so forth. There are "few intellectual and spiritual adventurers" (5). Fifty years later, I can assure you that nothing has changed. Thielicke acknowledges that his own "dogmatic system" is different from Spurgeon's, but he is hopeful that Spurgeon's work will bring a "breath of spring air" and "inner quickening" in our denominations. Thielicke is rather gushing in his enthusiasm for Spurgeon:
I can see that fresh and unpolluted water springs forth in Spurgeon's preaching. This impression is so strong that it is a secondary question by what theology the source is enclosed, or what system of piping is constructed around it. Here Parthians and Medes and Elamites all hear in their own tongues "the wonderful works of God" (Acts 2:9, 11). This Pentecost miracle relativizes all the theological schools, though we must still take them seriously and are not fanatically to level them down. It is very difficult to convey to readers in advance any true impression of what they may expect in reading The Soul-Winner. I will simply cup my hands for a moment and let a few drops from this ocean run through them. [p. 6]
Thielicke then begins to describe and defend Spurgeon's style:
The first thing to strike us is the vigor and even the passion of the language. This does not mean that the author is trying to force us. No one should imagine that Spurgeon is just using the loud pedal to try to bring his hearers under the pressure of suggestion or to dominate them psychologically. Our reaction to such a technique would undoubtedly be one of inner resistance. But there is no such resistance. One notes that the emotional element is not deployed here with tactical intentions. It derives from the matter with which Spurgeon deals. He himself has made this admirably clear. If, he says, a man knocks on my door in the middle of the night, wakens me out of sleep, and then tells me in a detached and languid voice that a fire has broken out at the back of my house, I shall probably not take him very seriously, and I may be inclined to pour a jug of water over this disturber of my peace. For when a fire has really broken out, this is so threatening and elemental a matter that we cannot speak of it with detachment and indifference. We are forced to refer to it in urgent and even agitated tones. But the Gospel, too, is exciting, disturbing, even sensational news. To speak of it nonchalantly and languidly is to give the lie to the message with the very tone of one's voice. In other words, my confession of Christ consists not only in the content of what I say but also in the style or manner in which I say it. [pp. 6-7]
And then Thielicke makes another important observation:
The second point to strike us is that Spurgeon preaches the Gospel, not the Law. He is no Savonarola, lashing the sinners of his day. In this regard it is noteworthy how men generally like to be scolded by a preacher. The great castigators usually have a big following. This is because it gives us pleasure to hear the sins of others mentioned and dramatically corrected with exorcisms. The reason for this very unchristian pleasure, which the great preachers of repentance usually evoke in their hearers, is clear enough. We like to see, not our own sins, but sins of others castigated. …Now Spurgeon can certainly list the sins of his age and of his listeners. But he never does this without first showing how we can be freed from them. He does not recommend moral medicines, which cannot help, and which simply make moral apothecaries rich. He tells us that the sun is shining, and that we must leap into it out of the dark house of our lives. [pp. 7-8]
I love that. "He tells us that the sun is shining." Thielicke was also appreciative of Billy Graham, as I once blogged: "Billy Graham Among the Theologians."
Mumford & Sons and the Death of Church Music
April 2, 2014
A couple years ago, I offered some meager reflections on the debates surrounding Mumford & Sons. I sided with the negative critics. I still do, even more now than then. I revisited Jordan Bloom's article. Their "sincerity" is really what drives me crazy — the need to really "feel" a thought before you express it. This is a plague in our day, and it is why our "art" sucks. You have artists interrogating their emotional landscape, projecting it onto the world, and calling it authentic. It then gets marketed to benighted consumers, eager to identify with the same authenticity and to parade it to their peers. And then there's the music — as if the Beatles didn't do enough to destroy American folk music.
In Jordan Bloom's criticisms, he rightly parallels this phenomenon with the trajectory of church music toward therapeutic kitsch. They're both cheap, easy, and disposable, which is what the consumer wants — whether in the church or at a concert, as if there is any difference anymore.
If you really want to know what a bearded troubadour of love should sound like, here is one of America's greatest songwriters:
If you do not find this as "inspiring' or "uplifting" as a Mumford song, then I should pray for your soul.
When the victorious Christian life ain't that victorious
March 15, 2014
Simone Weil made a distinction between affliction (malheur) and simple suffering. Affliction is "a laceration of the soul" that endures, not a transitory moment of pain. There is a deep hopelessness for the afflicted. Their humanity has been forced into "thingness," and there is no going back — at least not apart from a grace that pierces through this bondage or necessity (force). Weil explains this fundamental insight that permeates her theology:
In the realm of suffering, affliction is something apart, specific, and irreducible. It is quite a different thing from simple suffering. It takes possession of the soul and marks it through and through with its own particular mark, the mark of slavery. …Affliction is inseparable from physical suffering and yet quite distinct. With suffering, all that is not bound up with physical pain or something analogous is artificial, imaginary, and can be eliminated by a suitable adjustment of the mind. [Waiting for God, p. 67]
Weil's remarkable skill is how she discerns the "imaginary" adjustments of our minds to deflect our attention away from affliction and the affliction of others. And in our own day, I would point toward an abundance of preachers and their followers as especially enthusiastic about making these "adjustments." This is deeply ingrained in our churches. On this point, I offer you this perfect anecdote from Philip Yancey's Reaching for the Invisible God:
My roommate for two years at a Christian college was a German named Reiner. Returning to Germany after graduation, Reiner taught at a camp for the disabled where, relying on college notes, he gave a stirring speech on the Victorious Christian Life. "Regardless of the wheelchair you are sitting in, you can have victory, a full life. God lives within you!" he told his audience of paraplegics, cerebral palsy patients, and the mentally challenged. He found it disconcerting to address people with poor muscle control. Their heads wobbled, they slumped in their chairs, they drooled.
The campers found listening to Reiner equally disconcerting. Some of them went to Gerta, director of the camp, and complained that they could not make sense of what he was saying. "Well then, tell him!" said Gerta.
One brave woman screwed up her courage and confronted Reiner. "It's like you're talking about the sun, and we're in a dark room with no windows," she said. "We can't understand anything you say. You talk about solutions, about the flowers outside, about overcoming and victory. These things don't apply to us in our lives."
My friend Reiner was crushed. To him, the message seemed so clear. He was quoting directly from Paul's epistles, was he not? His pride wounded, he thought about coming at them with a kind of spiritual bludgeon: There's something wrong with you people. You need to grow in the Lord. You need to triumph over adversity.
Instead, after a night of prayer, Reiner returned with a different message: "I don't know what to say," he told them the next morning. "I'm confused. Without the message of victory, I don't know what to say." He stayed silent and hung his head.
The woman who had confronted him finally spoke up from the room full of disabled people. "Now we understand you," she said. "Now we are ready to listen."
[pp. 22-23]
Spooked by the Enlightenment
March 13, 2014
Since I often enjoy Darryl Hart's writings, even if not always in full agreement, it is about time that I post something from him. Here are some thoughts worth pondering, related to my own criticisms of "worldview" on this blog:
…Christian "conservatives" insist that philosophy precedes religion, which of course is remarkably ironic since these believers (both Reformed and Roman Catholic) are arguing for the ultimacy of faith. But to do so they use philosophical arguments about incoherence, epistemological foundations, and moral consistency that wind up making human reason, not faith or Scripture or tradition or Christ, the answer to life's most difficult questions. Mind you, the question, "how am I right with God?" is hardly the same level of difficulty as "how do I know?" or "how do I become virtuous?" …
[There is a] great affinity that neo-Calvinism and pre-Vatican II Roman Catholicism have in privileging philosophy. Both of those traditions grew up spooked by the French Revolution and carved up the universe between theism and atheism, both fought the Enlightenment with Christian philosophy or w-w, and both left a legacy of antithesis — intellectual, cultural, political. If a gateway drug for Protestant converts to Rome (the anti-revolutionary anti-modern one) exists, it could be neo-Calvinism with its bending the knee to philosophy.
Hart has done a significant amount of work demonstrating that worldview-ism is what happens when pietism supplants Reformed theology proper. Where I disagree with Hart, and his kith at Westminster California, is their too uncritical identification with scholastic Protestantism. The subjective ills which they identify in pietism can also be detected in scholastic moves to "secure" theological foundations.
Review of The Domain of the Word
March 8, 2014
John Webster (St. Andrews) published The Domain of the Word a little over a year ago, and it has recently been released in paperback for the financially disadvantaged among us. It is the exciting culmination of Webster's labor within the doctrine of Scripture, with prior installments including Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch and Word and Church.
Paul Dafydd Jones (Virginia) has written a review for the most recent issue of Modern Theology (30:1), and I thought it was worth posting here. Presumably I am not allowed to post the entire review, but here is a good size excerpt:
It is the virtue of studiousness, above all else, that The Domain of the Word seeks to commend. The cumulative effect of the assembled essays is akin to an instructional performance: a protracted attempt to remind scholars, and the church at large, that God provides a distinctive "space" in which scripture should be read and explored, and the rational capacities of the Christian can be put to work. This provision of space is, of course, an act of grace. To play on Webster's own combination of figures: the Word's domain is a divine address, spoken by the risen Christ and distributed by his Spirit, that activates and guides the response of those whom it locates and encloses; a temporal iteration of God's own immensity, such that the historical body of Christ becomes a vocal witness to God's creative, reconciliatory, and redemptive work. Negatively, the scholar qua exegete is hereby afforded the opportunity to move past an anti-theological naturalism that,Webster believes, frequently compromises the field of biblical studies. Positively, the scholar qua exegete is enabled to do what she should have been doing all along: offering a faithful response to the scriptural witness that honors God through the exercise of redeemed intelligence. Given the "unified saving action and presence of Word and Spirit, reason's vocation is retrieved from the ruins: its sterile attempt at self-direction is set aside; its dynamism annexed to God's self-manifesting presence; it regains its function in the ordered friendship between God and creatures" (p. 122).
The essays that comprise part one of this collection consider scripture's role in the divine economy. Two treat of Karl Barth and T. F. Torrance, and give ample evidence of Webster's renowned interpretative skills. The others are impressively programmatic. In "The domain of the Word," Webster traces the shape of the Triune God's self-communicative acts, identifying the canonical texts as discursive media that Christ commissions to speak on his behalf—the goal being a bibliology that integrates claims about providence, inspiration, and sanctification, and makes clear why and how scripture functions as "an instrument in the fellowship between the revelatory Word and its addressees" (p. 24). With "Resurrection and Scripture" and "Illumination," Webster adds more detail. The Bible's authoritative status is a function of it being the "creaturely auxiliary" (p. 38) that the risen Christ employs to make himself and his saving work known. Indeed, precisely because Christ is risen, all times and places are present to and for him, and all times and places are poised to receive the saving light that Christ communicates through the creaturely prism of scripture. The result, if God so wills, is the event of illumination: persons and communities who are corrected, re-formed, and "lit up" to enjoy ordered fellowship with God.
The essays in part two fall under the heading of "theological reason." Generally, they show Webster's longstanding interest in moral ontology—that is, an expansive account of the way that human beings can act, before God, in obedience and freedom— connecting with his more recent studies of scripture. In "Biblical reasoning," Webster argues that exegesis succeeds insofar as it locates itself and scripture within God's reconciling economy; in "Principles of systematic theology," theological reflection is conceived as the reproduction of God's antecedent self-knowing, mediated through God's hallowing of creaturely media and sustained, despite the ongoing fact of sin, by God's regenerative grace. In "Theology and the peace of the church" and "Regina artium: Theology and the humanities," Webster develops his insights with reference to the church and modern university. In terms of the church,Webster insists that theological discourse make manifest the peace that God has established between sinners and himself. Precisely because "peace is the metaphysically basic and enduring condition of the church of Jesus Christ" (p. 159), theology should view conflict in general and intellectual dispute in particular as unseemly; only when there is a well-formed "passion for gospel truth" (p. 167) may controversy be joined. In terms of the university, Webster protests the tendency to construe theology as one more humanistic field of study. This amounts to a defection of reason—a perverse reluctance, on the part of Christian scholars, to inhabit and participate in the divine economy. Webster advances an alternative perspective by way of Bonaventure and Augustine: one that perceives "the encompassing context" (p. 191) of all intellectual labor, refuses an overdrawn distinction of "sacred" and "secular," and affirms the theologian's Spirit-led capacity to draw selectively on "the disarray of the arts of intelligence" (p. 190).
I have no hesitation in declaring The Domain of the Word an important, insightful, and often brilliant work. Of especial value is Webster's willingness to articulate a consistently positive theological perspective—that is, his determination to promote a style of reflection that engages the complexities of a late modern context only occasionally, given the more urgent task of describing scripture's role in the divine economy and, complementarily, providing an account of God's invigoration of human intelligence. This does not mean that Webster's ad hoc appraisals of the modern period as largely inimical to sound thinking about scripture and exegesis ought to go unquestioned. I myself favor a more mixed judgment—one that balances critique with an acclamation of the benefits that accompany an expansion of learning, democratic processes of inquiry, and a criticism of certain "traditional" mores. Yet the point still holds. Webster's account of God's gracious activity is such that one need not (and ought not) spend time bemoaning the temper of the times. One can simply get on with the more interesting business of doing theology.
"Doing theology"—but in conversation with whom? The Domain of the Word is particularly interesting on this front. Webster's fascination with the work of Eberhard Jüngel, prominent in the early part of his career, is now in firmly in abeyance. His interest in Karl Barth continues, but is overarched by a strong commitment to "patristic and medieval authors and . . . their heirs in post-Reformation scholastic theology" (p. ix). What does this shift in conversation-partners portend? Webster's critical asides about the modern condition notwithstanding, there is little point in framing an answer in terms of the binary of modernity = bad/pre-modernity = good. For once that is in play, sound judgments are hard to come by: sweeping historiographical claims bulk so large that dogmatic arguments easily become peripheral. More important here is Webster's prefatory admission that an account of "God's infinitely deep, fully realized life" (p. ix), developed in conversation with patristic, medieval, and scholastic authors, has become fundamental to his thinking. …
Jones continues with some modest criticisms/questions about whether the limitations of the finite and sinful creature are lost in Webster's account, which would obviously be a question hailing from the biblical studies crowd as well. As you can see, it is an excellent review. I especially like his recognition of Webster's current dialog partners in the church's history. A fine example of his scholastic ressourcement can be found in his "Trinity and Creation" article from IJST 12:1 (Jan 2010), which pertains in part to the proper ordering of Trinity and incarnation, a heated debate in systematics for over a decade now.
You can also read Ashish Varma's review of Domain from the Wheaton bloggers.


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My newest little is due in just 7 short weeks. EKKKK! How did that happen? I remember last pregnancy counting days and wishing it was the half way mark at like week 10. And now this time around it's blown by and I am feeling like just yesterday I was sharing the news with Mr. Big Dog that there were two pink lines on the pregnancy test.
So maybe it's having a toddler that makes the days melt by? Or maybe it's the holiday season in the middle with all the chaos and hustle and bustle?
Or maybe it's just a little bit of anxiety not really wanting to focus on this pregnancy 100% head on? Like not looking directly at the sun......maybe it's been a little too much to think about?
And then there is the thought of two under two years old, which is daunting for a lot of people including me. But women have done it for centuries right? Or maybe it's the thought of a delivery anything like my first (lets just say Scary with a capital S, days in the hospital, and blood transfusions do not sound warm and fuzzy to me). Whatever it has been, this pregnancy has flow by and I find myself a little panic stricken at times with "oh my, am I ready?"
But ready or not, the closer we get to this little making an appearance the more my faith seems to comfort me. Faith that it will all be okay and I am not in control really at all of any of it. What will be, will be. I will be taken care of and it will all fall into place as it did last time. My little family will be okay and taken care of.
My fears and frets are filled with my hope and prayers that my little mister will not feel neglected or too shocked by the new addition to our family. My worries are substituted with a simple prayer that he knows how much we love him and will continue to feel it with sharing his parents with a little baby. And I have reassurance that everything will go as safely as possible and I will bounce back because I did last time and it all worked out.
We have had a lot of hiccups the past month or so with many decisions that have needed to be made. Financial decisions, scheduling decisions, thoughts and plans about our little family and what is best for it with our upcoming growth spurt of one more little person with the same last name.
And in the end, having faith it will all work out ultimately is what saves us over and over again. Saves us from worthless worry. Saves us from stress and anxiety. And just helps us keep in perspective that we are not driving this bus of life. We can only do so much, wish and pray for so much and basically show up ready to take on whatever this life hands us.
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MORRISONVILLE — Ashlee Elizebeth Hardin and Joshua Michael Gordon were married Feb. 8, 2014, at The North Country Club in Keeseville, N.Y., by Judge Kim Rennie of The Town of Chesterfield.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. David Hardin and Mrs. Francine Bola of Morrisonville.
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Nikki Lynn Hardin of Morrisonville was maid of honor. Jeremy Favaro of Cadyville was best man.
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Ashlee graduated from Saranac in 2008. She is a stylist at Mastercuts in Plattsburgh.
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Good point, I should have mentioned something about this in my article.... They report earnings on Thursday, October 30, 2008, and it will be interesting to see how their balance sheet shakes out. However, they did have 183 Million in cash, which grew 12 Million in Q2, and they recently sold their General Optics business for 21 Million; so that would bring their cash total to 204 Million (assuming they did not lose or gain any cash this past quarter). 348 Million for the acquisition minus 204 Million in cash means they had to come up with another 144 million somehow. Assuming all 144 million goes to their long term debt, it brings their total liabilities to 213.9. Also assuming their current assets and their shares outstanding stay about the same as they were last quarter, you have a NCAV of 2.9. This is definitely lower than before but it would still qualify as a net/net as it would be 65.53% of its NCAV. There's a lot of assumptions in there so I will definitely be interested in seeing how it all actually played out. Thanks for reading!
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02 September 2014 05:23
WREXHAM Council has completed a U-turn on a decision to raise prices at a leisure centre that is due to close.
Yesterday Johnstown councillor David Bithell raised concerns the authority had increased prices at Plas Madoc Leisure Centre on Tuesday, April 1, by two per cent, in line with price rises across the county's leisure centres, despite the fact the centre in Acrefair is set to close on April 27.
However, the council has overturned the decision to increase prices, stating their initial decision was "insensitive and should have been avoided".
The price increase meant an adult swim at Plas Madoc had been costing £4.75 for non-members and £3.95 for members since Tuesday, but prices will now revert to their 2013-14 levels for the remaining 24 days the facility is open – non-members £4.60 and members £3.85.
Price increases of two per cent remain unaltered at Wrexham's other leisure centres.
Despite widespread protests, Wrexham Council made the executive decision to close the centre in order to make substantial cuts for its 2014-15 budget.
The Plas Madoc Community Group last week said the centre could be rebranded sPLASh Magic if the volunteer-led rescue bid is successful.
The centre will be mothballed from the end of April until October, to give the community group time to complete a takeover.
Cllr Bithell welcomed the decision to overturn the price rise.
"Plas Madoc is closing in 25 days and that is punishment enough for the users, without hiking the prices," he said.
"This would have been a final kick in the teeth for the centre, so I welcome the council's U-turn.
"The community group is trying its best to take it over and the price rise was only going to make its task harder."
A Wrexham Council spokesman said: "As of April 1 the council increased prices at all of its leisure centres by two per cent.
"Wrexham Council's financial regulations indicate that fees and charges should increase each year in line with inflation.
"With the centre due to close to the public at the end of this month, we recognise that increasing prices in line with our other facilities was insensitive and in hindsight, should have been avoided.
"As a result, prices at Plas Madoc Leisure Centre will now revert back to the level they were before April 1."
l THE next meeting of the Plas Madoc Community Group, formed after the first public meeting on March 13, takes place on Tuesday at Air Products Social Club in Acrefair at 7.30pm.
Chairman Darrell Wright, who lives in Trevor, said: "We had a fantastic turnout of between 150 and 200 people at the first meeting and we're hoping for the same again. We need as many as possible to show their support.
"We are asking supporters to let us know through our Facebook and Twitter pages what they think of sPLASh Magic as a new name for the centre – or can you come up with something better?
"There is also a short online survey we need as many Plas Madoc users as possible to take part in which will help the committee keep the public up to date with developments and which could help applications for funding – visit www.survey monkey.com/s/ PMFUTURE."
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Oh dear...the Leader puts both feet straight into it again..how can it be doomed when local people are going to take it over and run it for the benefit of the wider community.....get your facts right Leader
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CAT General Manager Bill Jones chalked up the 26-percent of bus drivers calling out Monday to sickness and a few vacations. John Keller, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1436, has said the majority or drivers were scheduled off.
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Jones said the company has more than enough drivers to provide service to CAT's 2.7 million passengers a year. Regardless of the labor dispute, he said passengers are suffering and that cannot continue to happen.
CAT's Cumberland-Harrisburg Transit Authority Board had its monthly meeting Thursday afternoon. Chairmen Eric Bugaile said the board voted to begin contract negotiations with the union.
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