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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
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Miroslav Volf vs Scot McNight on Allah: A Christian Response

On April 7, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Miroslav Volf, Professor at Yale, on the dedication page of his new book  ¢â‚¬”Allah: A Christian Response, says this: To my father, a Pentecostal minister who admired Muslims, and taught me as a boy that they worship the same God as we do. Volf ¢â‚¬â„¢s quest is to build a theological basis for peaceful co-existence and […]

IVORY COAST: ISLAMIC AND WESTERN ‘INTERESTS’ MEET

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Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 102 | Wed 06 Apr 2011 ————————————————- IVORY COAST: ISLAMIC AND WESTERN ‘INTERESTS’ MEET ————————————————- By Elizabeth Kendal Ivory Coast (IC) is a nation on an ethnic-religious fault-line with a predominantly agrarian Muslim north and a predominantly urbanised, industrial and administrative Christian and animist south. Presidential aspirant Alassane Ouattara […]

Pray for the World April 4, 2011

On April 5, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

AUSTRALIAN   PRAYER   NETWORK   NEWSLETTER * NORTH AFRICAN / MIDDLE EAST UPDATE * SUSPECTED ISLAMISTS KILL PAKISTAN’S CHRISTIAN CABINET MEMBER * LAOS CHRISTIANS DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES FACE STARVATION * LIBYA IN CRISIS * NO ROOM FOR COMPLACENCY ON WORLD FOOD PRICES * IRANIAN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO GROW UNDER THREAT OF DEATH ———————————————– NORTH AFRICAN […]

RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA

On April 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

RELIGION AND ETHICS | 30 MAR 2011 Soile Lautsi is not a household name in Australia. It’s different in Europe where this dual Finnish-Italian citizen won a spectacular unanimous ruling from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in November 2009. The ruling stated that the Italian state had infringed her right to ensure that […]

IN DEFENCE OF APOLOGETICS

On April 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By John Milbank 25 MAR 2011 The practice of “apologetics” has fallen into disrepute. This is in part due to the associations that cling to the word itself, which suggests, at worse, that one must apologise for something, and, at best, that one must defend a doubtful or compromised position. But it also has to […]

Abortion – and other patients’ rights

On April 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By Leslie Cannold 25 MAR 2011 In 2008, Victoria repealed all abortion related sections from the Crimes Act. Among the provisions of the Abortion Law Reform Act that attracted opprobrium from the approximately 4% of Australians who oppose abortion in all circumstances was section 8, the conscience clause. Often misrepresented in public debates by opponents […]

Miroslav Volf, Allah: A Christian Response (a critical review)

On April 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

March 27, 2011 Review by  Joel S Miroslav Volf,  Allah: A Christian Response (HarperOne, 2011), 336 pp., $25.99.  ¢â‚¬Å“Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Does the answer to that question have significant implications for how Christians and Muslims engage each other in the world today? ¢â‚¬  It was in answer to those two questions that Miroslav […]

Soft sand of kindness: a nice true story

On April 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Showing compassion in a multiracial community is not difficult  ¢â‚¬“ all you have to do is follow your heart.By CAPTAIN L.W. SIM AS a little boy growing up in a multi-racial fishing village in Malacca in the early 1960s, I could run freely through the houses, boat sheds, churches, temples and mosque in the vicinity. […]

Proselytizing in a Multi-Faith World

On April 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

(A view with which Miroslav Volf would disagree: see the summary of his book Allah: A Christian Response on this website) By Ed Stetzer |  posted 3/28/2011 Five years ago, I found myself sitting in an interfaith meeting. Gracious people from different religions and denominations had gathered at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s headquarters in […]

Allah: A Christian Response (Miroslav Volf, Chapter Four) [6]

On April 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Previous article: http://jmm.org.au/articles/26671.htm The Qu’ran states that Muslims believe that the ‘People of the Book’ worship the same God: ‘Our God and your God is One’ (Al ‘Ankabut, 29:46). But Muslims reject belief in the Holy Trinity. Nicholas of Cusa (chapter 2) believed that Muslims’ rejection of the Trinity rests on a misunderstanding; in affirming […]

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