THE DOLOROUS PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
And if you desire to read the text that Gibson's movie is truly based on, rather than Scripture, here it is.
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Facts Faith and Film-Making
Facts Faith and Film-Making
If you are going to see The Passion at some point, here's a good study guide. If you're taking a group or doing education, then it's definitely helpful!
If you are going to see The Passion at some point, here's a good study guide. If you're taking a group or doing education, then it's definitely helpful!
"Der du die Zeit in Händen hast"
"Der du die Zeit in Händen hast"
Jochen Klepper--from Kyrie-Geistliche Lieder
Part of my lenten discipline is putting some of Klepper's poetry into singing English. Failing that, perhaps some halting English. Here it is in German. I'll be posting some drafts for whatever you may make of it this Lent. You can find other texts of his here. Sorry, German readers only. Which is why I am translating.
1: Der du die Zeit in Händen hast,
Herr, nimm auch dieses Jahres Last
und wandle sie in Segen.
Nun von dir selbst in Jesus Christ
die Mitte fest gewiesen ist,
führ uns dem Ziel entgegen.
2: Da alles, was der Mensch beginnt,
vor seinen Augen noch zerrinnt,
sei du selbst der Vollender.
Die Jahre, die du uns geschenkt,
wenn deine Güte uns nicht lenkt,
veralten wie Gewänder.
3: Wer ist hier, der vor dir besteht?
Der Mensch, sein Tag, sein Werk vergeht:
nur du allein wirst bleiben.
Nur Gottes Jahr währt für und für,
drum kehre jeden Tag zu dir,
weil wir im Winde treiben.
Ps 102,25-28
4: Der Mensch ahnt nichts von seiner Frist.
Du aber bleibest, der du bist,
in Jahren ohne Ende.
Wir fahren hin durch deinen Zorn,
und doch strömt deiner Gnade Born
in unsre leeren Hände.
Ps 90,9
5: Und diese Gaben, Herr, allein
laß Wert und Maß der Tage sein,
die wir in Schuld verbringen.
Nach ihnen sei die Zeit gezählt;
was wir versäumt, was wir verfehlt,
darf nicht mehr vor dich dringen.
6: Der du allein der Ewge heißt
und Anfang, Ziel und Mitte weißt
im Fluge unsrer Zeiten:
bleib du uns gnädig zugewandt
und führe uns an deiner Hand,
damit wir sicher schreiten.
Jochen Klepper--from Kyrie-Geistliche Lieder
Part of my lenten discipline is putting some of Klepper's poetry into singing English. Failing that, perhaps some halting English. Here it is in German. I'll be posting some drafts for whatever you may make of it this Lent. You can find other texts of his here. Sorry, German readers only. Which is why I am translating.
1: Der du die Zeit in Händen hast,
Herr, nimm auch dieses Jahres Last
und wandle sie in Segen.
Nun von dir selbst in Jesus Christ
die Mitte fest gewiesen ist,
führ uns dem Ziel entgegen.
2: Da alles, was der Mensch beginnt,
vor seinen Augen noch zerrinnt,
sei du selbst der Vollender.
Die Jahre, die du uns geschenkt,
wenn deine Güte uns nicht lenkt,
veralten wie Gewänder.
3: Wer ist hier, der vor dir besteht?
Der Mensch, sein Tag, sein Werk vergeht:
nur du allein wirst bleiben.
Nur Gottes Jahr währt für und für,
drum kehre jeden Tag zu dir,
weil wir im Winde treiben.
Ps 102,25-28
4: Der Mensch ahnt nichts von seiner Frist.
Du aber bleibest, der du bist,
in Jahren ohne Ende.
Wir fahren hin durch deinen Zorn,
und doch strömt deiner Gnade Born
in unsre leeren Hände.
Ps 90,9
5: Und diese Gaben, Herr, allein
laß Wert und Maß der Tage sein,
die wir in Schuld verbringen.
Nach ihnen sei die Zeit gezählt;
was wir versäumt, was wir verfehlt,
darf nicht mehr vor dich dringen.
6: Der du allein der Ewge heißt
und Anfang, Ziel und Mitte weißt
im Fluge unsrer Zeiten:
bleib du uns gnädig zugewandt
und führe uns an deiner Hand,
damit wir sicher schreiten.
Bishops and Pastors
Bishops and Pastors
Melanchthon seems to argue with Jerome that "the distinctions of degree between a bishop and presbyter or pastor are established by human authority" (para. 62). He claims further that any pastor may ordain and that "the churches" retain the right to do so. My first question is: what does Melanchthon mean by "the churches"? He seems to indicate an individual congregation or collection of congregations (para. 80) becuase he speaks of how it used to be custom for a neighbor bishop to confirm the choice.
It is here that I think Melanchthon shows his deficit of reflection that the New Testament should enlarge for him. True as far as it goes but it seems to me that the view he holds of congregations is quite atomistic. The need for mutual communion and so forth between congregations does not seem to exist in his discussion of bishops. And thus, he can see no distinction between bishops and congregations than one of human necessity. Does the view of church as the church of churches change this? If so, it would seem that the distinction between bishop and pastor is not one of divine right in the sense of the bishop having different evangelical tasks but instead a different congregation: a bishops church is a church of churches and she therefore has a different task than a pastor of a congregation does. She does not have a different set of powers than the local pastor. They both have the same evangelical responsibility. I am therefore less convinced that one pastor shouldn't ordain but the bishop can. She and the local pastor both are the same, in a way.
Melanchthon seems to argue with Jerome that "the distinctions of degree between a bishop and presbyter or pastor are established by human authority" (para. 62). He claims further that any pastor may ordain and that "the churches" retain the right to do so. My first question is: what does Melanchthon mean by "the churches"? He seems to indicate an individual congregation or collection of congregations (para. 80) becuase he speaks of how it used to be custom for a neighbor bishop to confirm the choice.
It is here that I think Melanchthon shows his deficit of reflection that the New Testament should enlarge for him. True as far as it goes but it seems to me that the view he holds of congregations is quite atomistic. The need for mutual communion and so forth between congregations does not seem to exist in his discussion of bishops. And thus, he can see no distinction between bishops and congregations than one of human necessity. Does the view of church as the church of churches change this? If so, it would seem that the distinction between bishop and pastor is not one of divine right in the sense of the bishop having different evangelical tasks but instead a different congregation: a bishops church is a church of churches and she therefore has a different task than a pastor of a congregation does. She does not have a different set of powers than the local pastor. They both have the same evangelical responsibility. I am therefore less convinced that one pastor shouldn't ordain but the bishop can. She and the local pastor both are the same, in a way.
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