Methodology

Kataphysic Inquiry

  • Introduction to T. F. Torrance’s “kataphysic inquiry” and the “epistemological inversion” required in any true study of the Living Word

Key Concepts

  • Noûs (νοῦς): New Creational Life opened up to us through Jesus in the Holy Spirit vs The Vanity of the Disintegrated, Fallen Mind

  • Double-Mindedness (Dípsychos): The unstable state of “double-mindedness” that arises when there are in us two (di) spirits (psyches) vying in a never-ending battle for control

  • Abundance (Perísseuma): Part 1. “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks”: The Mind-heart connection, inner healing and the dimension-shaping reality of quantum processing

By Theme

Reconciliation

  • Part 1: The external “change” engineered by fallen man failing in its ultimate ends while working to effect glorious transformation

  • Part II: The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation: The “change” effected in the fallen mind: Hell itself internalized making us, in the end, “foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless”

  • Part III: The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation: The “change” effected not by fallen man but by God in Christ (as we pass from suppression to confrontation to victorious union)

  • Review: A short review of the opening uses of allássō: From the engineered “change” of fallen man which works death to the obedience that gives life in death’s destruction

The Lord’s Prayer

“Hallowed (Hagiázō [ἁγιάζω]) be Your name”

  • Part I: From Earth to Heaven, the Human to the Divine, Time into Eternity: A Psalm of Ascent

  • Part II: “Into the Heavens”: The Lord’s Prayer & Psalms 120-124

  • Part III: The OT Background of kä·dash (קָדַשׁ )

“Give us this day our epioúsios (ἐπιούσιος) bread”

  • Part I: Matthew 6 & The Living Bread of the Future Kingdom

  • Part II: Lk 10-11, “Joy in the Holy Spirit”-> The Good Samaritan-> The “One Thing Needful”-> The Lord’s Prayer

  • Part III: John 6 & The Church Fathers: The Living Bread of New Creation

Lead us not into Temptation/Testing (Peirasmós [πειρασμός])

  • Part I: Synthesis of the first six petitions as God’s eternal Kingdom breaking into This Age (1-3), in Christ (4th) through the sacrifice of love (5th), leading…to…a clash (6th)

  • Part II: The Gospels—Prayer, The Parable of the Sower and The Garden

  • Part III: The OT Roots in Nasah (נָסָה), Bachan (בָּחַן) and Tsaraph (נָסָה)

  • Part IV: Acts to Hebrews

  • Part V: James to Revelation

  • Ekpeirázō (ἐκπειράζω): The infernal counterpart to peirázo and peirasmós— “Hypertesting”: an attribute of false communities which seeks not to reveal and refine but to destroy

Self-Emptying (Kenosis)

  • Kénōsis (κένωσις), Phil 2 and the paradox of true glory in Love’s self-emptying vs the “false glory” (kenodoxía) of self-love

Into a Bound Slave (Désmios)

Désmios (δέσμιος), Part I: Christ & Barabbas; Paul & the Pýthōn Spirit: “Bound prisoners” Whose binding brings freedom, binding the spirit of deception and transforming captors into disciples

By Parable

The Good Samaritan

The Parable of the Sower

  • “Lead us not into testing,” Part II: The Gospels—Prayer, The Parable of the Sower and The Garden

    The Pharisee & Tax collector

  • The Prayer of the Publican, The Jesus Prayer, Merkabah (“chariot”) Mysticism and Modern Hymnody

    The Rich Man & Lazarus

  • Part II: The Flaming Eyes of the Risen Christ: Part II. Preface to the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: The 18-fold pathway of the love of self, love of money (philárgyros) and the flame of God’s Holiness

  • Part III: The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “Flame (phlóx) of Fire”: The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, I: The paradoxes of the false holy spirit of wealth

  • Part IV: The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, II: The paradoxes actualized

    Parable of the Rich Fool

  • “I Will Tear Down My Barns and Build Bigger Ones”: Basil of Caesarea’s Homily to the rich amidst the great famine of 368 AD, disease and social collapse

    The Rich Young Ruler

  • From the Rich Man & Lazarus to the Rich Young Ruler: Religious Activism and the “The Holy Church of Christ without Christ”

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part I: An Introduction to “The Paradox of Suffering” in Seeking Riches (Ktēma & Chrēma) vs Treasure (Thēsaurós)

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part II: From the earthly Law of More money = More divinely blessed to the eternal treasures given and received in the spiritual Law of Love

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part III: Who is guarding (phylássō) whom? Or, do the things we own end up owning us?

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part IV: “Jesus beholding him loved him”: Love’s call to a poor rich man in Jerusalem taken up by a rich poor Apostle in Kerala

  • The Rich Young Ruler, Part V: What Spirit Fills Up Our Community: From 1st century Judea to the Gulags and the Khmer Rouge. Or where performance Christianity takes us…

    Holiness

  • Bāḏal (בָּדַל): Part I: The Division of Light from Darkness, Heaven from Earth, God’s Covenant People from the Nations and the True Priesthood from the Counterfeit: Part I. The Pentateuch: Gen-Lev

  • Bāḏal (בָּדַל): Part II: The Division of the True Priesthood from the Counterfeit, True Justice from Vengeance and Eternal Blessing from the Self Delusions of False Shalom: Part II. The Pentateuch: Num-Deut

  • Perílypos (περίλυπος): The Hell-encompassing suffering of redeeming Love or the inner torment in its rejection

The Holiness of Christ

  • The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “flame (phlóx) of fire,” Part I: Beginning at the End: The Revelation of Jesus Christ and the “flame” of His holiness bringing judgment or transforming glory

  • The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “flame (phlóx) of fire,” Part II. Preface to the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: The love of self, the love of money (philárgyros) and the flame of God’s Holiness

  • The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “flame (phlóx) of fire,” Part III: The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, I: The paradoxes of the false holy spirit of wealth

  • The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “flame (phlóx) of fire,” Part IV: The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, II: The paradoxes actualized

Humility

Tapeinós & Tapeínosis

  • Part I: Lowliness and the Paradoxical Power of “not rising far from the ground”— The Gospels

  • Part II: Acts—From the false techniques of religious syncretism to the transformative reception of the mystery of the voluntary humiliation of Christ

Leaven (zýmē)

  • Part I: Leaven in the Gospels: The operations of the Holy Spirit to bring God’s Kingdom; Or the workings of religious hypocrisy and fallen human power to establish a false kingdom Now

  • Part II: Leaven in the Epistles: From the leaven of spiritual conceit, malice and wickedness to the unleavened Passover bread of sincerity and truth—a life in Christ walking by the Spirit

  • Chileab (כִּלְאָב): The second son of David by Abigail—after Amnon & before Absalom—lost to historical account yet one who from his change of name became the “image” of his Messianic “father”

By Theme (cont.)

“Be wise (phrónimos) as serpents and pure (akéraios) as doves”

  • Part I. Phrónimos: Operating with a purified mind/heart/soul/ spirit/nous such that we live “according to Christ” and “by the Spirit”

  • Part II: Akéraios: The “unmixed” purity of the Holy Spirit overcoming the world and its passions of the flesh

    The Scandal of the Gospel

    Skandalizó (σκανδαλίζω): NT Synthesis and OT Background in Mikshôl (מִכְשׁוֹל): The four dimensions of “stumbling” in the Christian life—all centered on our response to the Messianic King

    Oneidízō (ὀνειδίζω) and the Final Beatitude: The unjust “rebukes” of the world together with the penetrating rebuke of Christ which, if received, can become for us an eternal Beatitude

Works of the Flesh

  • From the “Fruits of the Spirit”… to the “Works of the Flesh”: Part I. From the Law’s “yoke of bondage” to the freedom of life in the Spirit born out of our co-crucifixion with the Lover of our souls

  • From the “Fruits of the Spirit”…to the “Works of the Flesh”: Part II. The operations of the Spirit in us that we “not fulfill the deep desires of the flesh” (Gal 5, I John 3 and Jam 2)

  • From the “Fruits of the Spirit”… to the “Works of the Flesh”: Part III. From carnal lust to spiritual idolatry and pharmakeía to divisions (heresies) and, finally, total spiritual corruption

Fasting

  • Part I: Introduction: The context of the Sermon on the Mount

  • Part II: DFK on the context of Lk 5 (audio)

  • Part III: DFK, a biographical background to a living exposition

  • Part IV: A Seven-Fold Synthesis, The Text

Quantum Healing

By Scripture

Exodus

The Plagues

  • Arbêh (אַרְבֶּה): The Dual Nature of (1) The all-consuming plague of “locusts” upon Egypt; which are transformed for God’s people through their rejection of JHWH into (2) The Curses of the Covenant

The Psalms

  • Psalm Superscriptions: Part I. Scribal additions or an “important key which unlocks” a “world of understanding”?

  • Psalm Superscriptions: Part II. The Historicity of the Psalms: Ps 110 and Ps 22—the “Fifth Gospel”—through Rabbinic interpretation into the Church Fathers

  • Psalm Superscriptions: Part III. The Paradox of Healing: From the “stoa” of ancient Greece through Athanasius and Calvin into the world of modern neuroscience

  • Ps 63, “A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah”: Part 1. Intro to T. F. Torrance’s “kataphysic inquiry” and the “epistemological inversion” required in any true study of the Living Word

  • Psalm 22: The “Fifth Gospel”

  • Psalm 63, “A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah” (Miḏbār [מִדְבָּר]): Part II: From the Wilderness of Paganism to “Affliction” (anah [עָנָה]) to a Pit to Covenantal life in the Passover

  • Ps 63:1a “O God (ĕlôhîym) you are my God (êl); Early will I seek (shakhar) You.” Part III

  • Ps 63:1b “My soul thirsts (tsâmê) for You; My flesh longs (kâmah) for You in a dry and weary land where there is no water.” Part IV: The paradox of thirst and the Brave New World of controlled impulse

  • Ps 63:1b “My soul thirsts (tsâmê) for You.” Part V: Psalms-Prophets: Our thirst eternally unmet in the vanities of This Age or finally satisfied in the Kingdom of the Suffering Servant

  • Psalm 73 (through II Corinthians) to Psalm 92—The continual tension between true and counterfeit flourishing

  • Psalm 110: “The Lord said unto My Lord”

  • Psalm 120: From Earth to Heaven, the Human to the Divine, Time into Eternity: A Psalm of Ascent

  • Psalm 121-124: “Into the Heavens”

Ecclesiastes

  • Eccl 7:7: Raving Madness or Shining Light? T.F. Torrance and the approach to our word studies revisited

Isaiah

  • Is 53:5a: “He was pierced (chalal [מְחֹלָ֣ל]) for our transgressions” (pesha [מִפְּשָׁעֵ֔נוּ]), Part I. Genesis - Leviticus: Opening a Pathway to Reconciliation

  • Is 53:5a: “He was pierced (chalal [מְחֹלָ֣ל]) for our transgressions” (pesha [מִפְּשָׁעֵ֔נוּ]), Part II. The Book of Numbers: The pathway through the defiling plague of sin by propitiation

Hebrews

  • Heb 2:9-17: hiláskomai (In “The Prayer of the Publican, The Jesus Prayer, Merkabah (“chariot”) Mysticism and Modern Hymnody”)