Category: Blog Series
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[Grid::Blog::Via Crucis 2007] Constantine and ‘Power Church’ | The End of Strategy [4]
I’ve been attempting to argue over this series of posts that Jesus’ passion, in contrast to Judas’ scheming to catalyze Jesus into revolution, and Paul’s strategizing to get to Rome, critiques the power-plays that we try to make as Christians. Through Game Theory we have been duped into thinking our best strategy is to not…
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[Grid::Blog::Via Crucis 2007] Game Theory: Jesus Loses | The End of Strategy [3]
In the previous two posts I’ve looked at the figures of Paul and Judas and proposed that both of them, in their separate ways, were ‘strategists’. They wanted things done, wanted to give Jesus an amazing opportunity. And they had ideas about how to do that. Judas and his catalyzing a revolution; Paul and his…
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[Grid::Blog::Via Crucis 2007] Judas Catalyzes a Revolution | The End of Strategy [2]
In the previous post I looked at the parallels between Paul and Jesus’ approach to and arrest and trial in Jerusalem, and noted that the key difference between them was that while Jesus remained almost silent, Paul never shut up. I’m proposing that one of the reasons behind this is that in Paul we see…
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[Grid::Blog::Via Crucis 2007] Toward Jerusalem: Jesus and Paul | The End of Strategy [1]
[I’m pleased to be part of the Via Crucis 2007 grid-blog… This is a series of 4 posts in 4 days pre-posted, as I’m going to be in the wilds of a Welsh beach that technology forgot.] I have been teaching an introductory course on Christianity to Year 7 (11/12 years old) over the past…
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Insert Coin [3] | Final Fantasy
[Level 1] [Level 2] Emerging Church: Game or Ritual? As The Believer points out, one aspect of games such as Dungeons and Dragons is that of fantasy. When you enter a game, you are entering ‘role play’ – becoming someone else. Becoming a fantasy self. This is something I have critiqued in more detail here.…
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Insert Coin [2] | Weapons::Rules::Power
[First Level] Game or Ritual? This was the key question addressed in Level One. Lévi-Strauss made the distinction between Games (“they end in the establishment of a difference between players or teams where originally there was no indication of inequality”) and Rituals (“it brings about a union, or in any case, an organic relation between…