theological reflections by Shannon & Dee Mimbs
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Shannon and I have been out of town for about a week and a half. I had a math conference in Gainesville, Florida for a few days. On our way back to Ga, we visited some friends in Valdosta (Jason, Candy and Joshua). Then, we went to visit our families in Vidalia, GA while Shannon [...]
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Today, I would like to continue our journey through Vondey’s work, People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology. In previous posts (Feb-8 Theological Imagination, Feb-9 Imagine That, Feb-11 To Image or Not to Image), we surveyed the importance and role of images in the Church. Chapter two is called Companionship: The Social Nature of the People of [...]
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Christian Greetings! In conclusion to our survey of chapter one of Vondey’s, People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology, I have listed his six principles of using biblical images. Principles for the Use of Biblical Images: Images must emerge from within the community of faith. The images must emphasize the ecumenical unity of the Church. The [...]
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Continuing our exploration of chapter one of Vondey’s work, People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology… Vondey explores three functions of images: imaginative, illustrative and instrumental. Imaginative function of Images – Herein, images serve “as vehicles of emotions, associations, and feelings; they serve not only as an informative but also an expressive medium” (p. 18). Meaning, they [...]
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Hey all! I have been working through Wolfgang Vondey’s newest book, People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology. (“Ecclesiology” means “the study of the Church as a biblical and theological topic”) Now the Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Regent University’s School of Divinity, Vondey is a COGTS alumnus. He is originally from Germany and was raised Roman [...]
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I have often heard people talk about the God of the Bible – how we know who he is by what he does. We see the many times that God provided for his people – the ram for Abraham’s sacrifice, in the desert when Israel was wandering, his instruction to Israel to provide for the [...]
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It’s been a while since my last post. Just a few more weeks of assignments and, by God’s grace, I’ll enter into the great post-grad transition… While trying to remain breathing on the treadmill tonight, I was listening to Eugene Peterson’s audiobook, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, on Dee’s iPod (which I borrowed since [...]
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I want to be relevant. When I teach my Wednesday night class full of 9-12 year old girls, I want to be relevant. I don’t want them looking at me and thinking, “Mrs. Dee has absolutely no idea what I’m going through.” But, the fact is that while I am not too old, much has [...]
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