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A Revealing Letter about Ancient Christianity

By HonorShame Posted on November 28, 2023 Posted in Honor, Resources, Uncategorized 3 Comments Tagged with ethics, history, Honor

After Constantine converted to Christianity in AD 312, every Roman emperor was Christian (at least nominally). This fact is remarkable, considering both the great pride Romans had long placed in worshiping their Gods and the fact the (Eastern) Roman Empire …

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Perpetua and Felicitas

By HonorShame Posted on August 5, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment Tagged with history

The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas is an early martyr story that subverts and transforms the ancient Greco-Roman notions of honor and shame. Summary The short story narrates the martyrdom of six young catechumens in Carthage, North Africa in the …

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The First Missions Book on Honor & Shame

By HonorShame Posted on March 11, 2020 Posted in News, Uncategorized 4 Comments Tagged with history, research

In 1975, missions professor Lowell Noble self-published the book Naked and Not Ashamed: An Anthropological, Biblical, and Psychological Study of Shame. To my knowledge, this was the first work of evangelical missiology that addressed honor and shame. This post recounts …

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Visualizing the Resurrection

By HonorShame Posted on April 17, 2019 Posted in Bible, Christology, Honor No Comments Tagged with art, easter, history, resurrection, theology

Christians throughout history have used art to communicate theology. Most paintings are rather straightforward in their depiction of a gospel scene. But the scene of the resurrection of Jesus is an enigma. The miracle of Jesus’ resurrection was not directly …

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The Model of Guilt-Shame-Fear—A Short History

By HonorShame Posted on May 24, 2018 Posted in Culture, Guilt, Honor, Shame, Wesetern 4 Comments Tagged with anthropology, history, models, psychology

The idea of “guilt vs. shame” has a long history in 20th-century scholarship (see previous post). But how did the cultural model of guilt-shame-fear develop? Here is a super short history of the cultural trichotomony. In 1954, Christian anthropologist and …

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The Honor of Salvation – 11 Tozer Quotes

By HonorShame Posted on March 7, 2018 Posted in Bible, Honor, salvation, Spirituality No Comments Tagged with history, salvation, spirituality, Tozer

In The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer offers powerful insights about the role of shame in sin and honor in salvation. The following quotes are from Chapters 8 and 9 of the book, which is available for free in PDF and Kindle. Chapter …

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A Hermeneutics of Honor: John Chrysostom

By HonorShame Posted on February 14, 2018 Posted in Bible, Theology 1 Comment Tagged with bible, hermeneutics, history, scripture

John Chrysostom, the archbishop of Constantinople (353–407), was famous for his eloquent preaching (the moniker Chrysostomos means “golden-mouthed”). His eighty-eight exegetical homilies on the Gospel of John read much like a social-science commentary. I will explain a few ways that …

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The Reformation: 3 Honor-Shame Facts

By HonorShame Posted on November 1, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized 3 Comments Tagged with history, Luther, Reformation

The dynamics of honor and shame influenced the events of the Reformation, especially in the early years. This post sheds light on the social context surrounding the theological controversies that shook the Western world 500 years ago. 1. The German …

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Shame & Honor—Are They “New” Ideas?

By HonorShame Posted on November 22, 2016 Posted in Bible, Theology 4 Comments Tagged with church, history, Honor, theology

Sandra Freeman has served with her husband in Botswana since 2001 doing discipleship and business mentoring. She blogs at “Edge of the Kalahari.”Someone recently expressed concern about honor and shame, saying they are normally cautious about new ideas. I agree it …

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How Honor Baffled (& Awed) C. S. Lewis

By HonorShame Posted on July 27, 2016 Posted in Culture, ethics, Honor, Theology 1 Comment Tagged with CS Lewis, culture, history, Honor, theology

C.S. Lewis preached “The Weight of Glory” in 1942. In this sermon he speaks personally about his understanding of the biblical promises of honor and glory. Here are 4 phases of his theology.1. C.S. Lewis saw honorOne can hardly read the …

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Bonhoeffer’s Theology of Shame

By HonorShame Posted on February 19, 2015 Posted in Culture, Shame, Theology 9 Comments Tagged with bonhoeffer, history, shame, theology

Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) speaks about shame in his book Ethics. Bonhoeffer’s unflinching zeal and brilliant mind generated great reflections on the topic of shame, which I’ve summarized in five points below. 1-Shame is the result of disunion/estrangementPeople perceive their …

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