https://hcommons.org/members/ericdarylmeyer/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Eric Meyer is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5939088aab7a4f118ec0665d4ef031ac https://hcommons.org/groups/theology/forum/topic/divine-trust-god-trusting-humanity/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:17:35 -0400 I recently wrote an essay/article hybrid which explores the idea that God trusts non-Divine beings. I'm sharing the title and abstract below alongside a url link to the article and a PDF attachment. Even if you don't have time to read it, I would still like to hear people's thoughts. Is there room in your theological tradition to affirm a God who…[Read more]

]]> 434a3be0b5f323df6ff4b716c6ad6f34 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901226/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:25 -0400 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a8e86d2f420750f71433ca105077124 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901079/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:30 -0400 In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality. Here, I propose a reading of Good Omens that explores human agency through the process of naming. Focusing on the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 d889d78c9d2854dee08d45499f7fc3e3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899598/ Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:00:02 -0400 The study attemps to identify the sources of the Leitourgikon printed at Dealu Monastery (Wallachia) in 1646. Thus, this edition is here compared with some of the most important Ruthenian Sluzhebniki printed in the first half of the 17th century. The Wallachian Leitourgikon is not a simple reprint of a particular Ruthenian edition, having a table…[Read more]

]]> 0 99e72d495401d9215dcbd015abb9d52b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897043/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 03:00:18 -0400 As a new theory in the humanities and social studies, Queer Theory is not limited to matters sexual. Queer theory is a broad understanding which encompasses any understanding that is anti-normativity and anti-fixed identity. It is often discussed as identity politics by contemporary academics, philosophers and social commentators. It is within…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8bb8a0db8f61a7a5b51294f52f2af5c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887446/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:34 -0400 The central problem of the doctrine of creation - why did God create the world? - has important parallels with the central problem of the fall - how did sin enter the world? Both problems are essentially problems of freedom, of inexplicable decision - problems, that is, of sovereignty. This chapter will explore these parallel problems of creation…[Read more]

]]> 0 95de0496ad185b77d16e41a275edab51 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887282/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:27 -0400 In this text, Eliseo Ferrer carries out a revision of the positions maintained in a previous work on the “Discourse to Diognetus”. A supposedly Christian text in which the figures of Christ or Jesus do not appear (nor anything related to the Gospel story) and that, with all certainty, was manipulated at an undetermined time by the Roman Chu…[Read more]

]]> 0 b964dd7e5981f01f67a78e7215bcd5f6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884601/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:21 -0400 The language Luke uses to depict conception in his infancy narrative calls upon established medical discourse for fertilisation. My argument in this philological study is that ancient gynaecology prompts us to give full weight to the literal meaning of Gabriel’s term sullambanein (“to conceive/grasp”) and to ask what grammatical and material objec…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ebcec700b7972b8e810170e0a6ccbc9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884597/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:09 -0400 This article offers a new interpretation of the phrase “Jewish weight,” especially as it is used in the Greek papyrus known as CPJ 3.519. The Roman-era papyrus preserves part of a work of otherwise unknown fiction, probably a script of a comedic mime about an athletic contest in a gymnasium. Contrary to previous interpreters, a new reading of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c70f5cb686968429afec27a8fd89619 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884591/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:17 -0400 Biblical Hebrew is known for its creative avoidance of mentioning intimate body parts. Did such euphemisms continue in Greek-speaking Judaism? This article proposes that the “Greek hat” in 2 Maccabees 4:12 is not (or at least not only) a literal hat or a vague metaphor for Hellenism, as has been suggested through the centuries. Instead, it is a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 2db72caedadd8ae605f11c78333f9866 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882936/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:03:01 -0400 This paper outlines an investigation into three instances within the Babylonian Talmud where biblical stories of sexual encounters are interpreted as multi-coital events involving figures like King David, Bathsheba, Zimri, Cozbi, Sisera, and Jael. Despite the absence of explicit descriptions of sexual encounters in the Bible, the Talmud…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ba9c6f70ffc1ac69e0257fdf730de9c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879673/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:00:21 -0400 The Black Hebrew Israelite movement claims that African Americans are descendants of the Ancient Israelites and has slowly become a significant force in African American religion. This Element provides a general overview of the BHI movement, its diverse history/ies, ideologies, and practices. The Element shows how different factions and trends…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a4689757b58576788534f7022a15ba2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876997/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:00:55 -0500 For many Christians, the two words in the English language that don’t seem possible to combine are “faithful” and “disobedience.” For Adventists especially, who have too often grown up hearing an emphasis solely on obeying the commandments of God, such ideas are all too unthinkable. If God says it, the saying goes, that settles it. Yet, Ellen Whi…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c6544a609ca0ca74f4fb4d9a268bcc9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876312/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:00:11 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, en la época herodiana los judíos habían civilizado sus antiguos ritos y costumbres a través de la gran influencia recibida, primero de los babilonios y persas y, luego, de la cultura del helenismo; pero han llegado hasta nosotros sólidos testimonios que no permiten ocultar el carácter sangriento de sus más antiguas (y no tan…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd6853a6a4850646472b02f8ebab72e3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876308/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:00:02 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, las primeras culturas agrícolas desarrollaron una visión cósmica del mundo, dentro de la cual el significado del mito, expresado en el ritual, se habría convertido en la base de las elucubraciones «espirituales» y «religiosas» posteriores. Se trataba del misterio central que explicaba la renovación periódica del mundo a tr…[Read more]

]]> 0 881a07fbc9671c68595044f9d5c7b0cc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876045/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:16 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la cultura del antiguo Israel tampoco escapó a los insoslayables orígenes neolíticos protagonizados por la diosa de la vegetación y por el árbol en el entorno de las primeras culturas agrícolas. El prototipo bíblico del árbol se encontraba en el Edén (el Dilmun mesopotámico y el jardín o paraíso persa: «pairi-daeza…[Read more]

]]> 0 ceb1251b536ab60e0197563fa63d979f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876042/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:10 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la sabiduría, la espiritualidad y la santidad fueron simbolizadas en el mazdeísmo, al igual que en la India antigua, por la más intensa luminosidad, asociada esta luz al fuego y opuesta a las tinieblas del mal y de la ignorancia. Y de la misma forma que la doctrina de las Upanishads asimilaba el ātman a la luz interior del…[Read more]

]]> 0 079754e7ce69afefd508a414b836dce9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876038/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:07 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la turbación de los padres de la Iglesia de los siglos segundo y tercero no pudo dar respuesta coherente a las sorprendentes semejanzas que encontraron entre la religión de Mitra y el cuerpo de sus doctrinas, todavía heterogéneas y en proceso de formación. No dudamos de que la posición adoptada por Justino, que luego se conver…[Read more]

]]> 0 83f8fc79b38de8db0569ea4f149656de https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876034/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:59 -0500 Preámbulo al libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer.
Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la humanidad se divide entre quienes creen literalmente los textos sagrados (creyentes) y quienes no creen en ellos (ateos). Pero, como en su caso, aquí nos separamos de esta disyuntiva para adoptar una postura diferente, pues de lo que…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fb603b88f9ef69399bf58dd4eec1a50 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876030/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:52 -0500 El siervo de Isaías (Ebed Yahvé) ha representado, en la cultura del judaísmo y el cristianismo, una singularizada concreción con forma humana de la figura del chivo. Por lo demás, el Siervo o Justo Sufriente fue una figura arquetípica en todas las culturas del mundo antiguo, bastante poco precisa para nosotros y cuyo significado resulta oscur…[Read more]

]]> 0 d45182d0af93494ebe2ac45324979dd9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876016/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:31 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, el Mesías-Cristo fue un mito ancestral y arcaico reformulado por las sectas del mesianismo apocalíptico judío y transformado por el gnosticismo y por la Iglesia del siglo segundo. Es decir, un cristianismo judeo-helenístico sin historia evangélica ni «punto cero». Eliseo Ferrer propone en Sacrificio y drama del rey sagrado…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e08b688b84ee7d685ee780caefa2ee8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870765/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:00:23 -0500 This article examines two figures from the early twentieth century
beginnings of the Hebrew Israelite movement. Malinda Morris
was a central, though forgotten, figure in William Crowdy’s
Church of God and Saints of Christ but her creation of an
independent Church upon Crowdy’s death has not so far been
discussed. The strongest body of evi…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0452bd61bdbe1adbc40ae3cd93d65f7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870505/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:04:17 -0500 This chapter explores the contribution of the Seventh-day Adventist theologian/preacher Ellen White to Black Theology by comparing her early 19th century work to the later writings of James Cone. An argument is put forward that White intuited many of the insights that Cone would later formulate, demonstrating both that White can be a valuable…[Read more]

]]> 0 86a67095bc6c87b9f00f28e4f401ac75 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870495/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:28 -0500 Our earliest Christian sources suggest that it was common for Christian communities in the first and second century to disregard or ignore statements by Jesus that were perceived to be problematic, even at times claiming they originated with their enemies. This paper turns attention to this early Christian phenomenon of rejecting Jesus’ sayings, e…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a9fb81a53fdd13ec5a3e3db7fb3e3cd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870493/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:16 -0500 An article that explores the theology of Sabbath keeping, and the biblical arguments for when God wishes his laws to be violated. A theology of the Sabbath, if it is to serve God’s desire in Scripture, must focus on the why of Sabbath, not the when. It cannot rely on arguments from authority or the Law as a cheap excuse for not engaging in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 c04836ff699e6c79ff7fab5c3a46904f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870490/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:10 -0500 An article that explores the theology of Sabbath keeping, and the biblical arguments for when God wishes his laws to be violated. A theology of the Sabbath, if it is to serve God’s desire in Scripture, must focus on the why of Sabbath, not the when. It cannot rely on arguments from authority or the Law as a cheap excuse for not engaging in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 3856fe30377fd7e049bea40e20dc99cf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870488/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:59 -0500 A survey of Adventist church statements regarding church policy in the North American Division and World Church regarding Climate Change. It will be argued that unlike other policies the Adventist church supports, its statements on Climate Change lack the typical biblical support common for other initiatives and indicates a lack of spiritual…[Read more]

]]> 0 79fd37c096f75b47fb3045948bf7f2a1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870482/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:38 -0500 The passage of Genesis 22 is reviewed and examined through four interpretive lenses: Narrative Criticism, Canonical Criticism, Historical Criticism, and a Hermeneutic of Confrontation. After reviewing extensively the history of child sacrifice in Ancient Israel, the argument of Omri Boehm's reconstructed text (lacking the angelic speeches), and…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c5e306028bdbb8b017ab51bb39fd241 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870477/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:17 -0500 Discussions about the history of the reception of the Apocrypha within Protestantism are often mired by blanket negative presumptions that differ markedly from the actual beliefs attested to in available historical sources. This chapter seeks to rectify such historical misrepresentations by presenting an initial attempt to summarize the entire…[Read more]

]]> 0 4181fb3eb80be28c795fe19045b41e1e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870473/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:03 -0500 Discussions about the history of the reception of the Apocrypha within Protestantism are often mired by blanket negative presumptions that differ markedly from the actual beliefs attested to in available historical sources. This chapter seeks to rectify such historical misrepresentations by presenting an initial attempt to summarize the entire…[Read more]

]]> 0 c71c2d16d2d08d464ac81d006892c449 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870471/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:53 -0500 This essay seeks to introduce briefly the background and idea of what can be called a confrontational approach to theology. It will begin by outlining the biblical background of this often-ignored portrait and then will proceed to outline how this theological approach can breathe new life into various approaches toward God.

]]> 0 641c40731ef8b061f35651a479a910f2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870468/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:36 -0500 In this chapter, a biblical overview of the topic of doubt is provided, focused on the Gospel accounts. A theological argument is made for the necessity and contribution of doubt toward the process of faith.

]]> 0 0c2bf2a1f12ffbed870b5419e735ed95 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870461/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:10 -0500 Although bumper stickers abound that propose otherwise, the Bible itself reveals that just because "God says it," does not, in fact, mean "that settles it." On the contrary, a close reading of Scripture reveals that God does not want us to blindly obey him, but rather, invites us to "lock hands" with him and fight. The purpose of this book is to…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b592d5e9d9179403651f66555f2c664 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870451/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:05 -0500 The Tribe of Dan has always appeared to biblical scholars and archaeologists as something of an enigma. For decades, certain scholars, beginning with Yigael Yadin, have proposed a connection between the Denyen/Danaoi Sea People and the Danites of Ancient Israel, arguing that the former became the latter and were adopted into Israel at a later date…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a85421662d4b41e3d845e5918f32aa1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870289/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:56 -0500 A summary and review of a creative and neutral approach to teaching the Documentary Hypothesis to undergraduate students.

]]> 0 39c10739bec0b0766e3e0e8f9bda8fa1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870284/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:48 -0500 According to popular scholarly consensus, the role of the classical prophets ceased following the rebuilding of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. This paper will attempt to propose an explanation of 1 Maccabees’ comments about the cessation of prophecy by undertaking a careful and broad examination of the dynamics involved in the Hebrew B…[Read more]

]]> 0 b01407511f2b1295dcbd36ae34a41928 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870279/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:16 -0500 For centuries, the story of Lot’s daughters in Genesis is one which has both abhorred and intrigued countless readers. Utilizing the hermeneutical lenses of Narrative and Feminist Criticism, this paper draws attention to overlooked details in the narrative. The story is also contrasted with that of the Levite’s Concubine in Judges 19. The res…[Read more]

]]> 0 44ec4d71e018ab3d60553fa451789d67 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868546/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:48 -0500 Revista RELACIONES, nº 470 – Julio de 2023 / Montevideo (Uruguay).
On the formation of the Christ myth and the ideologies that led to the birth of Christianity.
Sobre la formación del mito de Cristo y las ideologías que propiciaron el nacimiento del del cristianismo.

]]> 0 e96aa7572ee34f2beb0bc56842774458 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865370/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:41 -0500 Review of "Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God" by Anthony D. Baker, "Great Stage of Fools: A Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays" by Peter J. Leithart, and "Shakeshafte & Other Plays" by Rowan Williams.

]]> 0 34be6cf64e96f3c6dc6cd8a768db9833 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865369/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:37 -0500 Review of "No Flesh Shall Glory: How the Bible Destroys the Foundations of Racism" by C. Herbert Oliver and "How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice" by Jemar Tisby.

]]> 0 7869fb0c7c3c5b77527f5abc497f5b84 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865368/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:33 -0500 Review essay of "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" by Rod Dreher and "Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition" by Roland Boer.

]]> 0 fa81eeb707760f49db5db40dc10919e0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865367/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:29 -0500 Review essay of "Children of the Waters of Meribah: Black Liberation Theology, the Miriamic Tradition, and the Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Empire" by Allan Aubrey Boesak and "Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice" edited by Mae Elsie Cannon and Andrea Smith.

]]> 0 76e36323841c65a88b79df96ae5044ab https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865366/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:25 -0500 Review essay of "Dare We Speak of Hope? Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and Politics" by Allan Aubrey Boesak, "Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology" by James K. A. Smith, and "Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World" by David VanDrunen.

]]> 0 4ce10ad5e5702c364f67179e0af93c73 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865365/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:21 -0500 Review essay of "Confessions" by Augustine, translated by Sarah Ruden and "On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts" by James K. A. Smith.

]]> 0 5e5855332b12f2660c8f5266b29bd7fd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865364/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:17 -0500 Review essay of "The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology" by Lilian
Calles Barger and "Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian" by James H. Cone.

]]> 0 1083088f241f191bfbd0a9383673e1e4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865363/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:13 -0500 This article examines the way that George Herbert relates his understanding of the doctrine of the atonement through the poetry of The Temple. First, we will look at Herbert's life and work. Second, we will look at some major characteristics of The Temple as a whole. Third, we will look at the specific themes relating to the atonement that appear…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2cbd66f290868adac9f32c43574c754 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865362/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:08 -0500 The “sacramental imagination” is closely associated with writers from the Roman Catholic tradition. However, Marilynne Robinson, drawing on the creational and sacramental theology of John Calvin, has successfully developed a distinctly American Protestant sacramental vision in and through her novels Housekeeping and Gilead. In this article, I exa…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b7b33311d61f3d108d5941edbccf3dd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865361/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:03 -0500 In this essay I will seek to discern just how seriously Williams intends for his readers to take the notion of substituted love. Specifically, is the picture of substituted love in Descent into Hell simply an illustration of a theological principle, or is the theological principle meant to be inclusive of a real world practice? In order to better…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d0879cf3d56c0114926125110403a6d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861717/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:00:29 -0400 Does "authorship" still have a place in the study of the Hebrew Bible? Historical criticism has long sought to uncover the human authors behind the biblical texts. But how might the "death of the author," so forcefully declared by Roland Barthes over fifty years ago, change the contours of this search? This volume brings together leading experts…[Read more]

]]> 0 450293e4c79f29a4f6bc244c92af6d53 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861714/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:00:03 -0400 This work provides new insights into the relationship between the Holiness legislation in Leviticus 17–26 and processes of cultic centralization in the Persian period. The author departs from the classical theory that Leviticus 17–26 merely presume, with minor modifications, a concept of centralization articulated in Deuteronomy. She shows how Lev…[Read more]

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