The meme spreads

Here are some of the links so far to our new meme – if I missed your post, feel free to add your link in a comment (and I’ll keep adding new links to the top of the list).

I have been tagged
Movies
Movie Meme
Movie Meme
archdukeff
Movie Meme
That one movie meme
Me me meme
One Movie, Not So Much
Some of my movies
Audie Murphy
Movie Nostalgia
Movie and book memes
My MOVIES
Movie meme
Finally! A Post! It's A Meme Unfortunately...
One Movie Meme
I've been tagged by blanne
much overdue update
Take me to New York, I'd love to see LA...
Movie Meme
Movie Meme
Meme Movies/Books
One (Stolen) Movie Meme
Om Shanti Shanti
Meme Vice
Book and Movie Meme
Movies
Movie Facts
Movie meme...
Been a while...time to start again
Awesome Movie Survey
Movie Moments
Movie meme
One Movie Meme
The one movie meme
my movie meme
Movie meme
movie meme
Movie Meme
Movie Meme
Movie meme
Movie Atheistic Drivel
One Movie Meme
One movie meme
One Movie Meme
Movie Meme
Movies
Another film meme...
Movie Meme
One Movie Meme
Movie meme
Movie memery
One Movie Meme (Picking up a gauntlet...)
One Movie Meme
One Movie Meme
The One Movie Meme
Memed….
Meme Combo
Two Memes
One Movie Meme
Movies
Movie meme I saw this on Vicki's blog...
movie meme
Movie meme
Movie Meme
Movie Meme
The One Movie Meme
The One Movie Meme
The One Movie Meme
The one movie meme.
One Movie
Movie meme
My “one movie meme”
One movie
The One Movie Meme
The One Movie Meme
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One movie meme
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One Movie
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Me and the movies
One Movie
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One Movie …
Day 14 Bonus
One movie meme
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Movie Meme
A movie meme
Craig's Movie "Meme"

The one movie meme

The one book meme – which started here nearly two years ago – is still slowly spreading through the blogosphere. So I reckon it’s time for the sequel: welcome to the One Movie Meme. If you’d like to participate, just post your answers to these questions and tag five people.

1. One movie that made you laugh
Pirates of the Caribbean

2. One movie that made you cry
Italianetz

3. One movie you loved when you were a child
Return of the Jedi

4. One movie you’ve seen more than once
The Godfather

5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it
Down with Love

6. One movie you hated
The 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

7. One movie that scared you
Pan’s Labyrinth

8. One movie that bored you
Last Days (2005)

9. One movie that made you happy
Life Is Beautiful

10. One movie that made you miserable
The Downfall

11. One movie you weren’t brave enough to see
Wolf Creek

12. One movie character you’ve fallen in love with
Amélie in Amélie (played by Audrey Tautou)

13. The last movie you saw
Scarecrow

14. The next movie you hope to see
No Country for Old Men

15. Now tag five people: In the hoping of getting the meme started, I’ll tag anyone who happens to read this!

NOTE: You can keep track of the spreading meme here.

The eternal book meme

Amazingly, the one book meme (started here at F&T back in July 2006) is still circulating through cyberspace! There are a lot of recent examples all over the place....

Kim's recommended reading

Kim Fabricius has just gotten back from his holiday in Greece – and here’s his contribution to Aaron’s meme:

• Douglas Harink, Paul among the Postliberals (Brazos, 2003). Get two books for the price of one, as this study relates the New Perspective Paul to the theology (in particular) of Yoder and Hauerwas.


• David Bentley Hart, The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? (Eerdmans, 2005). At just over 100 pages, this little book, which began its life as an article in The Wall Street Journal, is as moving and profound a theological approach to (anti-)theodicy as you are likely to find.


• Richard B. Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics (T&T Clark, 1996). Glowing endorsements from (among others) Dunn, Hauerwas, Lindbeck, Ellen Charry, and Luke Timothy Johnson – enough said for this tour de force, which combines close and imaginative readings of the NT with cogent applications to contemporary ethical issues.


• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851). The American novel, both our Paradise Lost and our national Confessions.


• Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society (SPCK, 1990). This book, the fruit of a lifetime’s experience and reflection, examines the interface of mission, evangelism, and dialogue with a post-Christian and multi-cultural world.


• Gerd Theissen, The Shadow of the Galilean (SCM, 1987). You can’t beat this creative, compelling, and yet scholarly book as an introduction to the “historical Jesus.”


• R. S. Thomas, Collected Poems, 1945-1990. With Auden and Eliot, this complex Welsh priest makes up the trinity of the finest Christian poets of the twentieth century, and uniquely Thomas is the “poet of the hidden God” (D. Z. Phillips).


• Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon, 1996). This seminal work does just what it says on the tin – and thereby takes us to the heart of Christian faith, both personal and social.


• Rowan Williams, The Wound of Knowledge: Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St. John of the Cross (Darton, Longman and Todd, 1979, 1990). The Archbishop of Canterbury unites what divided during the Middle Ages – theology and spirituality – in this penetrating and wise exploration of some of the great Christian saints and gurus.


• John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster (Eerdmans, 1972). The author’s own fork in the road – and a book responsible for a generation taking the path to Christian pacifism.

Recommended reading meme

Aaron tagged me in his recommended reading meme (and you can see other responses here). The meme asks: “What books do you find yourself continually recommending?” Here are some of mine:

• George Herbert, The Temple – I recommend this whenever possible, since it’s the best devotional work ever written
• John Milton, Paradise Lost – to go through life without having read this book would be a fate worse than celibacy
• Friedrich Schleiermacher, Brief Outline on the Study of Theology – I reckon this is still the greatest attempt to define the field of theological study
• Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom – I always recommend this to people who are interested in Christian ethics
• John Webster, Barth – I regularly recommend this to people who are looking for an introduction to Barth’s theology
• Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jesus – God and Man – I always use energetic hyperbole to recommend this book (“the best work on christology ever written,” etc.)
• John Updike, Roger’s Version – I always recommend this to theologians, since it’s a uniquely brilliant theological novel
• David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite – one of my missions in life is to recommend this book to everyone; unfortunately, several people who have followed my recommendation have later told me that they had to give up on the book, since it’s impossibly difficult (sorry!)

Kim's ten confessions

Here is Kim’s contribution to the new meme.

I confess that:

1. I think a lot more about baseball and sex (the order varies, particularly in the off season) than God.

2. I much prefer Mark to John (a little less conversation, a little more action, please), and the wit of Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde to the wisdom of Solomon.

3. I find the state of the church – and not only denominationalism but also the snake oils of managerialism, therapeutics, and the latest “vision thing” – to be much more threatening to my faith in God than the reality of suffering.

4. I consider the doctrine of biblical inerrancy to be a veritable compendium of Christian heresies.

5. I stand in awe at the edifice of Roman Catholic theology, as one might stand before Chartres Cathedral – or the Tower of Babel.

6. I hold in equal contempt ministers who do not read theology and theologians who do not read poetry and fiction.

7. I have no time for the cultured despisers of the Enlightenment on the one hand and of “postmodernism” (curate’s egg that it is) on the other, and I seriously doubt the intelligence of people who consider the likes of Foucault and Derrida to be “intellectual impostors.”

8. I am vexed by the abyss between the beauty of eucharistic theology and the banality of eucharistic practice.

9. I am uncomfortable with Christians who never swear, as if, missing a chromosome, they are less than truly human.

10. I find the telephone to be a necessary irritation, but the mobile phone to be the invention of Antichrist.

A spreading meme

Here are some of the contributions to the new out of the closet meme – I’ll update this list as more posts are added:

Philosophy over Coffee
Sub Ratione Dei
Andygoodliff
The Ivy Bush
Journey Toward Grace
ADKF
Catholic in the Third Millennium
Renewed Theology
Ponderings on a Faith Journey (again)
A Greater Courage
A Man Called Preach
Exiled Preacher
Flying Farther (again)
Deep Furrows (again)
Inhabitatio Dei (again!)
Armless But Not Harmless
One Thing I Know
Deviating
Vindicated
P. T. Forsyth Files
Sean the Baptist
Euangelion
Semper Reformanda
Prog(ressive)Nostications
A Skinny Fairtrade Latte
Paul Whiting
Waiting Room of the World
Leaving Münster
Elizaphanian
Per Caritatem
Progression of Faith
Mind Splatterings
Imaginations in Unity
Loretta’s Basement
Mattopia
Striped Theology
Nothing New under the Sun
Your Own Personal Jesus
The New Perspective on Rob
A Thinker’s Progress
Kim Fabricius
Ponderings on a Faith Journey
Fallen into Knowledge
Jim West
The Normal Christian Life
Levellers
Inhabitatio Dei
Aaron Ghiloni
Deep Furrows
The Fire and the Rose
Homilia of a NT Scholar
Flying Farther

And it’s good to see that Benedict XVI himself has decided to participate in this meme – he writes: “I confess: when I turned 70 (ten years ago), I would have so much desired that the beloved John Paul II would allow me to dedicate myself to study and research.” Yep, we’ve all been there….

Out of the closet: a meme

Peter Leithart lists a series of theological “confessions” – so I thought I’d do the same. If you’re easily shocked, you might want to skip this.... Then again, perhaps we should make a meme of it – the “out of the closet meme.” To participate in this meme, just post a list of intellectual confessions. Here are some of mine:

I confess: one of the great turning-points in my life was reading Pannenberg’s christology (Jesus – God and Man).

I confess: no theologian makes me feel more comfortable, more at home, than Rudolf Bultmann.

I confess: I tend to read Karl Barth through the metaphysical lens of Robert Jenson’s theology.

I confess: until I read John Webster’s Confessing God, I was convinced that theology should rid itself completely of the doctrine of God’s “attributes.”

I confess: I get inordinate pleasure from reading Plato and Hegel and Marx.

I confess: I sometimes wonder whether Schillebeeckx – rather than Rahner or Balthasar – might have been the greatest 20th-century Catholic theologian.

I confess: though I’ve tried and tried again, I’ve never managed to find Colin Gunton’s theology exciting.

I confess: I think David Bentley Hart’s The Beauty of the Infinite is one of the best things I’ve ever read.

I confess: I sometimes wish that I had pursued historical Jesus studies instead of theology.

I confess: I think Bruce McCormack’s interpretation of election and triunity is one of the most important theological proposals of recent years.

I confess: I always believed that the sermon was more important than the sacrament, until I had young children – at that point, it became impossible to concentrate properly on the sermon, and so my eucharistic theology became much “higher.”

I confess: although it’s fashionable to say bad things about Augustine, I think he was the best theologian ever to walk the face of the earth.