tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post116544808058876868..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: John Milton on the calling of the disabledBen Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-12333679481714330392008-03-30T04:20:00.000-04:002008-03-30T04:20:00.000-04:00Great poem and post Ben. While I realize this is a...Great poem and post Ben. While I realize this is an older post, Byron aptly linked me to it as I consider <I>Identity</I> and what it means. <BR/><BR/>I agree that all our gifts, talents and abilities are gifts from God. Therefore there should be a sense of empowering that we can step out to do things for/with God that are within our calling with the humility to allow God to make straight the paths we are to tread. <BR/><BR/>As Bonhoffer says, Christ beckons us to die... and it is in dying to self we gain much of Christ.Craig Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15588042075470456058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1165646809327407132006-12-09T01:46:00.000-05:002006-12-09T01:46:00.000-05:00Thanks for this poem and your reflections. Very ti...Thanks for this poem and your reflections. Very timely and much appreciated.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1165617093708232412006-12-08T17:31:00.000-05:002006-12-08T17:31:00.000-05:00Marva Dawn, an excellent theologian with the Luthe...Marva Dawn, an excellent theologian with the Lutheran Brethren (an expert on Jacques Ellul and a former student of John Howard Yoder), suffers with many disabilities. I have often thought that it gives her a great many theological insights.Michael Westmoreland-White, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06343135380354344847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1165535974992643742006-12-07T18:59:00.000-05:002006-12-07T18:59:00.000-05:00On the subject of blindness . . .Frances Young, wh...On the subject of blindness . . .<BR/><BR/>Frances Young, who is, of course, a fine patristics scholar, referred in her lecture to the 4th century Alexandrian theologian Didymus the Blind. Actually, she said, he was known as the Seer. Interesting.<BR/><BR/>Another interesting point is that John Hull describes himself not as blind but as "a whole-body seer"; touch, for example, becomes "the art of gazing with one's hands". <BR/><BR/>He also makes a sharp observation about why people tend to feel uncomfortable around the disabled. It is, he suggests, because "The disabled person tends to render other people powerless". Big theological implications there, I think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1165525743704860462006-12-07T16:09:00.000-05:002006-12-07T16:09:00.000-05:00This is a great poem. Thanks.aeThis is a great poem. Thanks.<BR/>aeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1165451932262740622006-12-06T19:38:00.000-05:002006-12-06T19:38:00.000-05:00Ben, have you read the work of a modern-day Englis...Ben, have you read the work of a modern-day English poet who also believed that he was called by God to be a poet and prophet, and who also went blind (and deaf), namely Jack Clemo?<BR/><BR/>If not, run to your nearest library or secondhand book site and get some of Jack's fine Calvinist poetry (his novels and autobiographical works are unique too). You won't regret it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com