{"id":445,"date":"2007-01-02T20:30:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/01\/creative-tensio.html"},"modified":"2007-01-02T20:30:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T20:30:54","slug":"creative-tensio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/01\/creative-tensio.html","title":{"rendered":"Creative Tension:  Mystery (p3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/knowingunknowable_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Knowingunknowable_1\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/knowingunknowable_1.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Lucas describes an ancient way of interpreting the Bible, one that he argues Jesus used, it&#8217;s called &quot;halakic reasoning.&quot;&nbsp; Simply put it is holding &quot;both strands of a paradox in tension and balance, knowing that with God both sides must be true.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the process of firmly grabbing <em>both <\/em>ideas in paradox and then merging the two into a greater understanding of the character and nature of God.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>What the ancient Hebrews called &quot;halakic&quot; we call jazz.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Lucas does a masterful job of pointing out that while the Bible contains &quot;no real contradictions&quot; it does contain plenty of paradoxes.&nbsp; When it comes to a paradox the goal is to &quot;grab on to both sides&quot; and see that they actually &quot;compliment, reinforce, and enhance each other.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas describes an ancient way of interpreting the Bible, one that he argues Jesus used, it&#8217;s called &quot;halakic reasoning.&quot;&nbsp; Simply put it is holding &quot;both strands of a paradox in tension and balance, knowing that with God both sides must be true.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the process of firmly grabbing both ideas in paradox and then merging&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Creative Tension: Mystery (p3) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/01\/creative-tensio.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Creative Tension: Mystery (p3) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lucas describes an ancient way of interpreting the Bible, one that he argues Jesus used, it&#8217;s called &quot;halakic reasoning.&quot;&nbsp; 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Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys &amp; 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). 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