Some Thoughts on Ecclesiastes – a short review
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Some Thoughts on Ecclesiastes – a short review

“But Ecclesiastes is different [from the Psalms and Proverbs]. The writer(s) of this work are keenly aware of several key tensions in the world of lived experience. One is the counter-pressures between vanity and futility on the one hand, and the assumption God is somehow in charge on the other.”

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“The Problem of the Priest” in Reading the Bible and Theology
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“The Problem of the Priest” in Reading the Bible and Theology

“The question Genetically Modified Skeptic proposed was simply this: If you accept the bible as God’s word, why would a perfect God choose to communicate via so flawed and ambiguous a medium – i.e., a literary text?”

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