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Aaron Hann
@aaronjhann
Counselor, advocate, writer. https://t.co/HBO2Tjy8Gd Reflections on spiritual abuse, reform, theology & therapy at the frequency of a counseling session.
Nov 14, 2024 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
It’s not my habit to engage with poor arguments, but I had some cancellations today & extra time, so let’s consider this claim that “[Calvinist] Christian patriarchy holds men to a high standard and has ways of dealing with men who are irresponsible or abusive.” 1/12🧵 I’m only going to cite one scholar, Jeffrey Watt, because his book is open source. High quality, steeped in original primary sources, and impartial. He notes the good that Calvin & Geneva did vis a vis women in marriage, & also the bad. See pp. 124-128. 2/ library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…
Sep 27, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I’m studying this stuff right now, so thought I’d give some pushback to @RScottClark’s critique of using the Ameaux episode as evidence of the alleged tyrannical Calvin.

Clark writes, “technically it was the city who effected the sentence” of Ameaux. 1/7
Image It sounds like that is meant to mitigate Calvin’s responsibility. Furthermore, “This was less about Calvin’s person than it was about the authority of the church…Ameaux was made to apologize for criticizing the city’s pastors (an office), not for insulting Calvin’s person.” 2/7 Image
Aug 26, 2024 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
The Gospel of John is bottomless, eg 1,007: The word John uses for the “money-bag” which Judas was in charge of, glōssokomon (12:6, 13:29), occurs nowhere else in the NT. It is only used in the OT in 2 Chronicles 24. Some similar themes are hardly coincidental. 🧵 1/20 TL;DR: Judas took silver for himself from the glōssokomon, stealing from the rebuilding of the temple in the body of Jesus & the temple-people about to be remade from the temple-side of Jesus.

First, I’ll list relevant verses in Jn 12 & 2 Chron 24, and then some observations. 2/
Aug 16, 2024 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
TIL that scholastic Peter Abelard was a sexual abuser. My ?: why have I seen Abelard many times in theology & philosophy books, & never once did those authors inform me about behavior which rendered Abelard unfit to teach Scripture & doctrine according to biblical standards? 1/🧵 Image The painting above, by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (1919), shows Abelard with his student Heloise. I’m not sure how Brickdale understood their relationship, but the image is jarring: are they consenting lovers, as history typically portrays? 2/
Jul 16, 2024 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
When a summary of a pastor’s confession of sin & the original confession don’t match. Long 🧵comparing post by Dr. Tarr on Zwingli w/ a letter in Zwingli’s own words. No criticism of Dr. Tarr intended, just struck by similarity to pastors today being acquited on vague confessions The summary: “Zwingli admitted to committing fornication, repented with godly sorrow, and committed himself to a chaste and holy life.”
2/desiringgod.org/articles/the-s…
Apr 1, 2024 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
John outrunning Peter is a weird detail, and got me curious. Sometimes in John those weird details act like bumps in the text to get readers searching for clarifying/illuminating context in other texts. After searching a bit, 2 Samuel 18 offers an interesting allusion. Long 🧵1/ I started the search with the verb for “outran”, protrechō, which is rare in OT/NT, just 2x in Luke 19:4 & Jn 20:4, & only 1x in OT 1 Sam 8:11. Often that kind of “coincidence” with John is actually intentional, 2/
Sep 2, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
This thread sparked my church discipline research bug. Some receipts on the deposition of Rev. George Bourne, who, in the words of @jdhutch64, was burned in effigy.

TW: violence
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 Bourne brought an overture to the 1815 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, “asking the assembly to consider whether a person who owned slaves could be a christian.” The overtures committee rejected the overture.
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Jun 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
It’s been a long week. 🧵 (CW: sexual abuse)

The annual denominational meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Presbyterian Church in America were painful for abuse survivors.
1/ Christianity Today also issued an alert that the PCA has an abuse crisis, too. The article featured the stories of a female survivor of attempted rape by a church elder as well as my wife Kristen who was fired for her adamant advocacy for this woman.
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 christianitytoday.com/news/2023/june…
May 27, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Is it true that “An activist can behave like an obnoxious, strong-willed 15 y/o, demanding respect & deference”? Sure.

Is it true that immature Christian leaders can use that rhetoric to dismiss substantial criticisms from mature believers? Absolutely.🧵
Writes Samuel: “This isn’t an abstract reflection.” Oh, but it is.

Without giving concrete examples of “emotional immaturity”, a Christian leader can conveniently apply Samuel’s advice to any reactive anxiety in their church system and label it “immature.”
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May 26, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Where Are The Imprecators? A poem 🧵

With all their filth and horror,
Faithful Abe still prayed down
Mercy for Sodom and Gamorrah. (Gen. 18)

We Christians are taught to see in Abe
The image of mercy interceding,
A shield put to God’s wrathful wave.

1/8 But where are the imprecators?
Jesus rebuked the Sons of Thunder.
Are all Boanerges thus to be abhorred? (Luke 9:54)

But who among us doesn’t know,
Doesn’t feel the burning coals which
Hunger for hot judgment’s flow?

2/8
May 14, 2023 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Spiritual Abuse Tactics in John 9: A long🧵

1.) And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” (John 9:2)

The question takes a person, a human created in God’s image, and makes him a matter for theological debate
1/ The context for spiritual abuse is situated in the impersonal.

Policy and procedure matter more than persons.

As soon as a person is defaced in the mind, any amount and manner of marring is justified.
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Jan 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Another 🧵 on attachment theory & church:

Ppl with insecure attachment styles (anxious/avoidant/disorganized) can heal & develop earned secure attachment (ESA).

ESA requires relationship of safety, attunement, connection, conditions that allow healing of attachment trauma.
1/ Can’t work through attachment trauma or seek ESA in family of origin & abusive churches where conditions are not met.

ESA happens in relationships w/ safe closeness, learning that one can be close w/out being hurt, & practice intimacy w/out needing fight/flight/freeze/fawn
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