With

Tony Golsby-Smith

Series

Breakfast with Jesus

Published

6.13.2022

Ezekiel and the Grand Inquisitor - BwJ 18

Tony continues looking at Ezekiel 12 - 14, this time through the lens of Dostoievsky’s ‘Grand Inquisitor’.

Tony takes us into Dostoievsky’s famous imaginary confrontation where the Inquisitor berates Jesus for ‘overestimating’ humanity and wanting too much from them - love rather than servility. He draws a deep comparison between this and the idolatrous mindset.

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Jesus as the two way door - BwJ 26

What is glory? BwJ 25

Ezekiel's wider vision of the temple - BjW 24

Paul and the introspective conscience - BwJ 23

The glory bookends of Ezekiel - BwJ 22

Circle of Glory - BwJ 21

Ezekiel and the Ubiquitous God - BwJ 20

Ezekiel and the Grand Inquisitor - part 2 - BwJ 19

Idolatry in the OT - BwJ 17

Ezekiel and the Angry God - BwJ 16

Introduction to Ezekiel - BwJ 15

BWJ 14. Allegory; were the Patristics right or badly wrong?

Bad ways (and better ways) to read Jeremiah - BwJ 13

Jesus, Jeremiah and Gehenna - BwJ 12

Jeremiah Buys a Field, part two - Hope - BwJ 11

Jeremiah Buys a Field, part one - Eschatology - BwJ 10

How the law of Moses failed to deliver what God wanted - BwJ 9

BWJ 8. The Problems of Performance based Christianity – and the Covenant without Conditions

Knowledge of God as the goal of life - BwJ 7

BWJ 6. The worst translation in the Bible?

What God Really Wants - BwJ 5

Jeremiah and Homer; a Surprising contrast - BwJ 4

Jeremiah and the Angry God? - BwJ 3

The Social Impacts of Evangelical Theology on modern America - BwJ 2

First Fruits in Jeremiah - BwJ 1

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