…and I just thought I’d mention it to everyone, as I passed the tipping point today. I’m getting tired of every single day feeling like I should provide a link to the latest post on Jesus Creed, the blog home of Scot McKnight (yes, that’s “Scot” with only one “t”). It’s just that every day for the last — I don’t know how many days — Scot’s had a post worth not only reading, but pointing out to others. I haven’t done that with most of these latest posts, but I’ve felt with most of them that they’re well worth a referral. It’s just that I can’t do that every day… I’m still hoping to serve up something of my own thoughts in this space!
So this time I’m just going to take a shortcut, and recommend strongly that you blogroll him, or add him to your list of RSS feeds, or however it is you like to read your daily blogs. And after you’ve read your daily McKnight, don’t forget to stop over here where we “normal” bloggers live and write (we still want traffic too!).
Scot, I know you’ll read this as well, so this is a heartfelt thanks for your consistent contribution to the emerging church conversation via your blog and your comments elsewhere. We’re indebted.
Very kind of you, Brother Maynard. Thanks, also, for spelling my name correctly.
Blogging is a nice Church-shaped communication that gives me a break from research and writing more technical items. I had a bundle of galleys to read, and some short articles for magazines to write, so I’ve been at the desk from about 7am to 4pm every day all summer. But, with that all done, I can at least try to play golf once a week.
For the rest of the summer I will resume writing a commentary on James. There’s an emerging Christian: the walls between his form of Christian faith and his Judaism are hard to detect!
Actually, I’m toying with the idea of an essay on John’s gospel as the quintissential book of the Bible for the emerging church. The Johannine Community was probably in a time of some turmoil, having got themselves ousted from the Temple, and they’re reflecting on what Jesus really said and trying to live as he showed them as the church continues to emerge and take shape before their eyes. It’s still a bit nebulous, but I feel I’ve glimpsed something… perhaps it’ll take form, perhaps not.
But James, well, he was a real practitioner. Hang the megachurch, are you looking after the widows and orphans? Oh, and watch your speech, you who are quick to criticise… and beware the dualistic (or was that double-minded?) man!
My library section on James right now contains Adamson, Burdick, Davids, Mayor, Moo, Motyer, Reike, and Tasker… how long before there appears McKnight in the list? Is this for a series?
My James is for the Eerdmans NIC series. I hope to be done in 3 years. Should be, too.
You’ve got some good ones; I think Martin is good and I haven’t even looked at Luke Timothy Johnson’s in the Anchor Bible. I’m plowing my own way through the book, in light of a full notebook of details and ideas, and then when I’m done working through, I’ll start reading the commentaries and the monographs and articles. And one day I’ll just say, “I’m done.” Send it in. And hope it will be useful to pastors.
That’s good news… the NIC is a favorite series. Adamson on James in that line is a bit, er, dated now… I would sooner turn to Davids (NIGTC), so it’ll be nice to have a new entry on James in that series. I hate the price tags attached to books like that, but they’re a lot of work to write and compile for an audience that’s regrettably small, relatively speaking. I guess I’ll have to wait a while though ;^)
Gratia vobis et pax,
Lol! I can so relate to this post.
Not only do I get tired of saying, “Ooh, another great post by Scot McKnight…” but it can’t be doing his ego any good! :-)
Wow, great feature with the favicon on commments.
Gotta find the plug-in for that.