Theology
Justification
From an Orthodox Netfriend: The concept of justification in Orthodox theology differs from that of evangelical Protestantism. Instead of justification being simply a judicial declaration of the right status of the person on the basis of Christ’s imputed righteousness, Orthodox theology holds that justification includes also the actual making of the person righteous. It involves […]
Spong and Borg (again)
One netfriend wrote: I have been following the Williams v Spong discussion, but can’t pretend to follow all the science stuff. From a theological point of view, I think Spong asks some good questions, but has some shallow answers, seemingly unaware that the issues have been under discussion in theological circles for some decades, with […]
Irrelevance Of Theology (colin Morris)
Irrelevance of theology and church unity schemes. Source: Colin Morris 1968:29-30. “My grandstand view of the martyrdom of the Church in the Congo Counter-revolution taught me to distrust those conventional labels we pin on our fellow Christians. Over three hundred missionaries, mostly Roman Catholics and extreme fundamentalists, were killed. They not only bled the same […]
Charismatic Renewal and Prosperity
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/took.txt I have enjoyed your site for quite some time and have downloaded it so I could read over and over again. You have many powerful testimonies – I am especially delighted to see that you are taking a stand against the Charismatic movement and its false doctrines. Believe me, I can say that because […]
Why I Like Spong
A netfriend wrote: Although I’ve only done Elementary Science for first year high, I don’t always understand it, but I do understand Spong and I relate to the answer he gave to a question recently: Question: “Why is it so important to you to view the Gospels as midrash rather than as history?” (He explains […]
Baptists and Creeds
One netfriend wrote: Historically, you suggest that Baptists didn’t claim much authority for creeds on the basis that “God still had yet more light and truth…” From memory, the major reason for Baptist opposition was that “if it said more than scripture, it said too much, and if it said less than scripture it didn’t […]
Spong and Borg
I have been following the Williams v Spong discussion, but can’t pretend to follow all the science stuff. From a theological point of view, I think Spong asks some good questions, but has some shallow answers, seemingly unaware that the issues have been under discussion in theological circles for some decades, with more satisfactory results […]
The Orthodox Church and the Bible
Ken wrote, I’ve got myself into strife with more than one Baptist minister by asking why in so many places in the NT the Septuagint, rather than the Hebrew, is quoted as “scripture”. To which Athanasius (Orthodox priest) responded: Because the Septuagint is the ‘authorised version’ of the Orthodox. 🙂 For Orthodox the Septuagint -was- […]
Baptismal Formulae
PM – Wednesday, 24 November , 2004 19:08:54 Reporter: Ian Townsend MARK COLVIN: The Roman Catholic Church has told two of its priests that hundreds of their parishioners may have to be re-baptised, on the grounds that they’ve been using an “invalid” baptismal service. Instead of the words “Father, Son and Holy Spirit”, Saint Mary’s […]
Spong and Science
One netfriend commented If we are to extend this latitude to Spong, we should also extend it to the Biblical writers. Something Spong doesn’t seem prepared to do. Another: But I think that’s exactly what Spong *does* do, because he looks at the biblical accounts and says “the science implied by the language they use […]
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