I love introducing folks to prophetic provocateur Robert Farrar Capon's writings...Episcopal priest, right-brainer, chef and wine buff extraordinaire, holy humor in a reverently irreverent way.... now elderly (pray for his health concerns) ; still a great and creative mentor to emerging church...Why does it seem no bloggers but Len and I hang out with him?
Here's a few excerpts to get started. Cheers!..(and warning: you may never come back!):
Thumbsucking Sucks:The Marginal Model of Church
The Foolishness of Preaching
Interview: The Father Who Lost two Sons
Intelligent Designer
Good Preachers Need to be Naughty
The Devil's Organized Secret
Eating the Supper of The Lamb in a Cool Whip Society
Beer in Jesus's Catholic Net
Capon:Mushrooms ain't wine/Pathology/DeathByTraditions
God is Left-Handed
National Enquirer Seminary (Capon)
The real war is not Christian vs. NonChristian
a toast to God
"The new insight is always at odds with the old way of looking at things. Even if the teacher's audience were to try earnestly to take it in, the only intellectual devices they have to pick it up with are the categories of the old system with which it conflicts. Hence the teacher's problem: if he leaves in his teaching a single significant scrap of the old system, their minds, by their very effort to understand, will go to that scrap rather than to the point he is making and, having done that, will understand the new only insofar as it can be made to agree with the old -- which is not at all."
-Robert Farrar Capon, "Between Noon and Three," pp. 140-142.
So glad you are blogging, if I may use the word as a verb. I'll be checking it out with regularity....
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Thanks, Jamie:
ReplyDeleteBlogging is a verb, so is "faithing" (Walter Wangerin in "Orphean Passages", "churching", "Holy Spirit-ing", etc
Most folk reading this don't go as far back as you do w/me (Jamie was on staff at a church I pastored in another life), so you of all readers will appreciate this
thispost..you know my sordid secret(:
hey! so i realize i am about 5 years to late - haha - but i would LOVE to get my hands on these links that you've posted...
ReplyDeletehowever, none of them seem to be working anymore. is there any way that you would be willing to re-post, or maybe to email them to me or something?
i have just recently been introduced to Capon and i am LOVING his writing!! I am suffering from and insatiable appetite to read his stuff - haha.
Randi: great to hear from you.. Sorry, our forum has been offline awhile. I will try to reconstruct and fix the links. Here's the first batch:
ReplyDeleteHere is the Father/Son interview:
http://www.csec.org/csec/sermon/capon_4414.htm
Here is Thumbsucking:
http://www.3dff.com/pages/risky12.htm
Left Handed:
http://books.google.com/books?id=o7QBcehnghcC&pg=PA524&dq=capon+parables+left+handed&hl=en&ei=7VuGTri6M4rYiAK6oo26DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=capon%20parables%20left%20handed&f=false