Reviews for Yorkshire Cooking

The average rating for Yorkshire Cooking based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-10 00:00:00 Tom Dale That an Illinois Pentecostal Baptist pastor might find a lot in common with a Virginian Episcopal priest was fairly surprising to me. But I listened to the Rev. Mrs. Fleming Rutledge again just the other night, and I still find her vibrant orthodoxy to be one of the most compelling distillations of the true Gospel in the midst of a world so full of counterfeits. What has been more surprising that my ever-increasing theological commonalities with Rev. Rutledge, however, is the discovery that one of her chief sources, the German Lutheran theologian Ernst Käsemann, also echoes my own Pentecostal sentiments. This discovery has been earth-shattering for me. Reading the German theologians (i.e. from Adolf von Harnack to Rudolph Bultmann and everyone in-between), the American evangelically-minded Christian is almost always aware that some lurking unorthodoxy, some undercurrent of modernity, some obnoxious heresy is almost always under the covers. If I read Bultmann, I do so from a hermeneutics of suspicion (whether this is right or wrong is somewhat irrelevant: I am an American evangelical and he is a German theologian; in our respective worlds, "never shall the twain meet"!). So, reading a student of Bultmann's, my initial engagement is from that similar basis. Käsemann never gave me even a second to gather a retort. From page one of this magnificent collection of essays he waded into complex issue after complex issue with both an incredible exegetical verve and a deep, abiding sense of the eternal value of Christ's work on the cross. Here I found the font from which Rutledge drew on so deeply for her masterful The Crucifixion, all in Käsemann's germ form: the justification of the ungodly is printed on nearly every page; the displacement of a theologia gloria with a theologia crucis; the abiding sense that truly "Reformed" theology must engage with Christ's victory over the Powers... Some of these essays engage in such minutia of Paul's texts that one may initially question how "broadly" they can be applied. But Käsemann speaks with such authority and fervor that would make us evangelicals lament how poorly, how lightly, how quickly we assume we know what Paul means. There are, of course, some eccentricities to his approach (e.g. a heightening of Romans and Corinthians to the detriment of Ephesians; even if deutero-Pauline, the late-modern Church would do well to re-assess the beautiful and complex claims of that book!), but Käsemann is remarkably attentive to the downfalls of his own German liberal tradition. If anything, he fits squarely alongside Karl Barth as one of those great theologians of the German tradition who critique the tradition from within, re-appropriating Bultmann's "demythologizing," dismissing out-of-hand aberrant readings of Paul for the sake of Hegelian or Heideggerian presuppositions, reclaiming the tradition of Luther with all his exorbitant verbosity. Reading Käsemann has been exhausting. No other writer in recent memory has compelled me to write so many notes in my notebook! Thus, even a 160-page essay-collection (just six essays) has taken me far longer to read than it ought to have. This is, perhaps, not good news for the research I need to do for my term paper on the man. Nevertheless, reading Käsemann has also been a treat: and I would even assert further that late-modern Pentecostals, especially those who feel out-of-sorts with the ways the evangelical world has encroached upon our space, will find an unlikely ally in Käsemann, even when he speaks very critically of the "enthusiasts" (as per I Cor.). In fact, in one essay he explicitly addresses the topic of speaking in tongues in some of the most exemplary and positive manners I have heard any non-Pentecostal theologian discuss it. All in all, Käsemann is thoroughly worthwhile, and this collection on Paul's writings is a significant and helpful starting-point.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-08-02 00:00:00 Corey Leverington A pretty insightful look into the thinking and personality of George Soros. My main take away was that perception is everything in this world and you are at an advantage when you are able to see beyond what the masses see. Soros' theory of refexivity is built on the idea that there exist an gap between reality and perception and perception is really the self reinforcing effect of subjective belief evolving into fact.This to me, seems like be in the realm of Economic Psychology. What's most interesting is that Soros' motivation to make money in investments was due to a desire to write as a philosopher. Along the way he found that he was a better investor than a philosopher and is happy to admit this.