{"id":139773,"date":"2025-09-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139773"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:37:03","slug":"tuesday-food-for-thought-ernst-kasemann-on-the-nature-of-human-beings-right-now-according-to-the-new-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139773","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Food for Thought&#8211;Ernst K\u00e4semann on the nature of human beings right now according to the New Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c&#8230;all through the world [sin] takes possession of us as power and destiny\u2026. There is no such thing as human autonomy. One is never simply oneself but always the projection of an all-encompassing power, the copy and image of whichever lord has commandeered one for service.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Ernst K\u00e4semann, \u201cThe Theological Relevance of the Word \u2018Possession\u2019 in the New Testament, in <b>On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene<\/b> (Eerdmans, 2010), 64, cited by yours truly in a recent sermon<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As a last word and as my bequest, let me call to you in Huguenot style: \u2018R\u00e9sistez!\u2019 Discipleship of the Crucified leads necessarily to resistance to idolatry on every front. This resistance is and must be the most important mark of Christian freedom. ~Ernst K\u00e4semann (1906-1998) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F0PCbXtS4N\">pic.twitter.com\/F0PCbXtS4N<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kenneth Kovacs (@KenKovacs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenKovacs\/status\/1703563159552897031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8230;all through the world [sin] takes possession of us as power and destiny\u2026. There is no such thing as human autonomy. One is never simply oneself but always the projection of an all-encompassing power, the copy and image of whichever<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139773\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,34,169,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139777,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139773\/revisions\/139777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}