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Dorothy Sayers
Read the work of that strange Christian lady Dorothy L Sayers (who had a baby out of wedlock which was put in an orphange)??? Visit http://www.sayers.org.uk/. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born at Oxford on 13th June 1893, the only child of the Rev. Henry Sayers, of Anglo-Irish descent. Her father was at the time […]
Bonhoeffer: Traditional Christianity has outlived its usefulness
Traditional Christianity has outlived its usefulness Interesting paragraphs lifted from http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/god.html#godevolve Another important theologian in the liberal tradition was the German Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976). Bultmann was certainly one of the greatest New Testament scholars of the twentieth century. He was known for two things connected to biblical criticism: “Demythologization” and “Form Criticism”. According to him, […]
KARL BARTH
KARL BARTH Doing theology in Barth’s style is as exegesis of God’s free, self-authenticating, Spirit-illuminated Word. Barth’s warnings against embedding Christian truth claims in any prior theory of knowledge apply: if Christianity has no eschatological Word to explicate, then we are left only with liberal naturalism and historicism. Barth insisted that to hear scriptural narrative […]
G. K. CHESTERTON
G. K. CHESTERTON is the one C S Lewis during his atheist period considered ‘the most sensible man alive.’ T S Eliot observed that Chesterton ‘did more… than any man of his time… to maintain the existence of the important minority in the modern world.’ He did so not by sounding didactic alarums but by […]
C. S. Lewis: Public Christian and Scholar
by Bruce L. Edwards Prepared for the Frances White Colloquium on C S Lewis, Taylor University, November 12, 1998 ——————————————————————————– All our merely natural activities will be accepted if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not. –C. S. Lewis, “Learning […]
Katherine Von Bora
Father in heaven, unto us this week is given a gift… more days to know you, more days of welcome, we welcome you within – hmm more days of welcome, we are welcomed into your presence – hmm more days of welcome, as we welcome those around us. more days of worship, as we worship […]
F W Boreham
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION “One Sunday evening, about twenty years ago, I was standing in my pulpit at Hobart, Tasmania. The occasion was special and the church was crowded. I was commencing that night my Winter Series of Addresses. The addresses, as the printed syllabus showed, were to be delivered at fortnightly intervals. During the […]
Auschwitz Reflections
AUSCHWITZ RELFECTIONS May 2005 from Mark Tronson STORY Dr. Mark Tronson Chairman of Well-Being Australia and the Australian Cricket Chaplain placed a wooden commemorative plaque at the entrance to Auschwitz Birkenau, Nazi concentration camp in Poland yesterday (5 May 2005) at the “March of the Living”. The “March of the Living” commemorated the 60th year […]
Remembering John Paul II
by Rod Benson Expression of condolences Baptists in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory join with millions of Christians around the world in honouring the late Pope John Paul II as a great Christian statesman and moral theologian. We especially remember his vibrant faith, his clear Christian teaching especially in response to the […]
Eleanor Roosevelt: Streetcar
Streetcar (Eleanor Roosevelt) Born to privilege, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated her life to helping others. According to author Blanche Cook, in 1900, when Roosevelt was a freshman at New York’s Barnard College, she joined other like-minded students and worked for the Junior League for the promotion of Settlement Movements. And while other volunteers–like her friend Jean […]
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