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Evil and the crucified God

By and others ⋅ May 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Bishop Tom Wright is being read more than any other NT scholar (other than the Jesus Seminar people perhaps) in the English language right now. In his 2006 book ‘Evil and the Justice of God’ he writes this crucial (in both senses!) paragraph in his chapter ‘Evil and the crucified God’ on p. 62: ‘What, […]

Jesus and Power

By and others ⋅ April 28, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

(Notes from last Sunday’s preaching at a Wesleyan Methodist Church). Mark 10: 32-45 Four items from this week’s news: 1. Last week Italian police arrested Renato Cortese, the Sicilian mafia’s ‘boss of bosses’, after he had been at large for four decades. He was living in squalid conditions in a decrepit farmhouse. Why was he […]

Wills’s Jesus

By and others ⋅ April 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Sightings 4/10/06 — Martin E. Marty “Jesus, Jesus and More Jesus … Jesus is all the rage in the media these days,” writes Lynn Garrett in Publishers Weekly Religion BookLine. She’s right. You can save time by reading Garry Wills’s terse What Jesus Meant, a typical Willsian “makes you think” book; you can then skip […]

Jesus [13] ‘Simply Christian’ (Bishop Tom Wright)

By and others ⋅ April 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Bishop Tom Wright’s recent (2006) book ‘Simply Christian’ (SPCK) is aimed at thoughtful readers who want to know the fundamentals of the Christian faith – the sort of people who a generation ago read C S Lewis’ ‘Mere Christianity’. I’ll summarize the gist of the book in the next couple of articles, but here’s a […]

Jesus [12] The Scriptures, the Cross, and the Power of God

By and others ⋅ April 3, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The Scriptures, the Cross, and the Power of God, N. T. Wright, SPCK, 2005 It’s Lent (for the information of ‘non-liturgical’ folks). During this time – the forty days before Easter Sunday – Christians have traditionally practised fasting and other acts of penance. The three traditional practices are prayer (justice towards God), fasting (justice towards […]

Jesus [11] Hell: Conditional Immortality

By and others ⋅ March 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

In this series on Jesus, our starting-point was Matthew’s ‘Last Judgment’ (chapter 25), where Jesus claims, among other things, to be present in the lives of the ‘wretched of the earth’, and to have the authority to dispense eternal judgment about how we relate to these poor. (For earlier articles visit http://jmm.org.au/catalog/section/jc1.htm ). We then […]

Jesus [9] Hell: universalism

By and others ⋅ March 22, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

When in the U.S. last year I was surprised to see this book in several airport bookshops (next to Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Life): ‘If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person’ (Philip Gulley & James Mulholland, HarperSanFrancisco, 2004) The questions * How can the God Jesus talked about – who is both loving […]

Jesus [10] Hell/Universalism: William Barclay

By and others ⋅ March 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Universalism: William Barclay A generation of the post-WW2 English-speaking world’s evangelical-to-mainline pastors/preachers used William Barclay’s commentaries – more than any other scholar’s – to enrich their sermons. (The liberals’ main resource was probably the Interpreters’ Bible Commentaries and Dictionary). Today Barclay and the IBC/D have given way to the many printed and on-line lectionary resources. […]

Jesus [8] Hell: C.S.Lewis’s ideas…

By and others ⋅ March 17, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

[See http://jmm.org.au/catalog/section/jc1.htm for the previous seven articles]. Matthew’s Last Judgment scene has the King saying to ‘those on his left hand, “You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels”‘ (25:41 NRSV). ~~~ Now, the gist of C.S.Lewis’s response in The Problem of Pain (which he […]

Jesus [7] Jesus on ‘Hell’

By and others ⋅ March 16, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

[See http://jmm.org.au/catalog/section/jc1.htm for the previous six articles]. Matthew’s Last Judgment scene has the King saying to ‘those on his left hand, “You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels”‘ (25:41 NRSV). First, some of the hard questions… A well-known radio commentator, Ormsby Wilkins, attended a […]

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