tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24215087.post5840391523189590003..comments2023-05-14T07:51:18.017-05:00Comments on The Suburban Christian: What we learn from Paul's acknowledgmentsAl Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407264726681695790noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24215087.post-71695859819825656272007-01-26T14:25:00.000-06:002007-01-26T14:25:00.000-06:00Now there's an interesting thought... that Paul mi...Now there's an interesting thought... that Paul might have written less carefully in a different medium. (Do I hear cries of "heretic"?) I guess this would start all kinds of musing on the inerrancy of blogging.L.L. Barkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13333960142447144678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24215087.post-52259314949820996422007-01-26T12:55:00.000-06:002007-01-26T12:55:00.000-06:00I bet he would have been a blogger. He certainly m...I bet he would have been a blogger. He certainly made use of the communication technologies of his day and would likely have blogged today. Though it's an interesting question to think about how his writing, say, Colossians, would have been different had he been blogging rather than writing.<br /><br />Something quite interesting to me is the fact that the cost of papyrus and writing materials was such that even a short letter like Philemon would have cost maybe $200 to compose, and to write a longer epistle like Romans or 1 Corinthians would have cost thousands of dollars. So you can bet that every word was chosen with care. Would he have been as theologically deep were he e-mailing or texting? Perhaps not.<br /><br />Actually, you know who really would have been bloggers? The patristic church fathers who wrote all those commentaries and treatises. They never had an unpublished thought.Al Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04407264726681695790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24215087.post-84018111547012254632007-01-26T12:00:00.000-06:002007-01-26T12:00:00.000-06:00So, are you saying Paul would have been a blogger?...So, are you saying Paul would have been a blogger?L.L. Barkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13333960142447144678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24215087.post-8246032621666655352007-01-26T10:51:00.000-06:002007-01-26T10:51:00.000-06:00Charity and Mark - your comments remind me of the ...Charity and Mark - your comments remind me of the fact that Agatha Christie refused to work with coauthors becuase she said that you still do all the work and only get half the royalties. I think western individualism plays into this a lot - we think that it's easier to do everything by ourselves and whatnot. But life is meant to be lived collaboratively, even though it's messier sometimes. And it's another example of everything we need to know being learned in kindergarten - play nicely with others.Al Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04407264726681695790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24215087.post-73141182996303577982007-01-25T16:44:00.000-06:002007-01-25T16:44:00.000-06:00Mark -- Are you saying life is just one big group ...Mark -- Are you saying life is just one big group project? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24215087.post-2765614295217655362007-01-24T21:02:00.000-06:002007-01-24T21:02:00.000-06:00Charity, that reminds me of all the times I assign...Charity, that reminds me of all the times I assigned group projects and heard similar complaints from my students.<br /><br />Usually I just listened to them and said, "You can make it work. Make it work." For me, nearly all of school is about teaching people the process of learning and working together.<br /><br />Which makes me wonder about work. Could it be the purpose of work isn't much different? We are just out here being productive for the larger (higher?) purpose of learning more and working together. And through both, we give glory to God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24215087.post-8149660438759999312007-01-23T16:15:00.000-06:002007-01-23T16:15:00.000-06:00In college, whenever a professor would assign a gr...In college, whenever a professor would assign a group project, I always groaned. Working collaborativly never seemed very efficient, and negotiating the interpersonal relationships often got in the way of the task at hand. Plus, I usually ended up carrying the bulk of the work load because it was easier than critiquing someone else's work.<br /><br />Looking back, I see that the group interaction was as much the assignment as whatever project we were working on. Collaboration is a good, necessary part of all meaningful work. Thanks for the reminder, Al.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24215087.post-14043277291623891772007-01-22T22:25:00.000-06:002007-01-22T22:25:00.000-06:00Al, you make me smile.
As always thanks for the ...Al, you make me smile. <br /><br />As always thanks for the post here. This article is so powerful—and it has a great title.<br /><br />I love the implication you make at the end that Romans may have been a group effort. I guess it could be frightening to some Christians to spread authorship around like that, but it shouldn't be.<br /><br />Why wouldn't God work literally through communities to create his Word? Jesus Christ is the Logos. Now the church is the body of Christ, the body of the Logos.<br /><br />Could it be the Word is a community as much as it is a written text?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com