Theology
Rowan Williams vs. Spong: a response
One pastor-friend wrote: 1. Why bother debating anything with Bishop Spong? Nathan wisely responded: Personally, I thought Rowan Williams answered that question very well and very graciously in his second paragraph. Surely being unconvinced about the integrity of someone’s Christian identity doesn’t render their ideas unworthy of being engaged with. Isn’t Christian apologietics all about […]
Sola Scriptura
In the Vanity of Their Minds by John Whiteford Editor’s Note: John Whiteford is a former Nazarene Associate Pastor who converted to the Orthodox Faith soon after completing his B.A. in Religion at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. He first encountered Orthodoxy as a result of his involvement in the local Pro-Life (Rescue) movement, […]
Rowan Williams’ Response to Bishop Spong
Bishop Spong has nailed his ’12 theses’ to the Internet, and urged the Church to debate them. Rowan Williams considers them, and finds them neither defensible nor interesting. Tasmanian Anglican October 2003 Bishop Spong’s argument Martin Luther ignited the Reformation of the 16th century by nailing to the door of the church in Wittenberg in […]
The Greatest Opportunity In The History Of The Church
We live in a time of explosive change. “We won’t experience 100 years of progress in the twenty-first century, but rather, we’ll witness on the order of 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate of progress).”(1) And with this explosion, we have been given the greatest opportunity in the history of the church. Yet–in what […]
Definition of a Fundamentalist
From my friend Mark: A fundamentalist is someone who believes that all issues can be definitively decided by reference to certain fundamental principles and truths. Strict constructionists in constitutional law, biblical fundamentalists, and foundationalists in philosophy all (loosely speaking) share this basic intellectual stance. Such a position is inherently traditionalist, as it defines texts of […]
Fundamentalists & Southern Baptists
From my liberal friend Mark: “If you are a [born-again] Christian, you will go to heaven; If you’re following another religion, then by default you will go to Hell.” Susie Shellenberger, Life on the Edge radio program, sponsored by Focus on the Family, 2001-MAY-5. About the Southern Baptists and other Fundamentalist faith groups: Fundamentalist Christians […]
The Trinity (from the Church Fathers)
St Gregory of Nyssa The Great Catechism http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf205.xi.ii.i.html The above is right up on this topic of the Holy Trinity. and from this page: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf205.xi.ii.v.html Chapter III. And so one who severely studies the depths of the mystery, receives secretly in his spirit, indeed, a moderate amount of apprehension of the doctrine of God’s nature, […]
The Trinity: an Orthodox Explanation
The Trinity is a central doctrine of most branches of Christianity; it says that God is one God, existing in three distinct persons, usually referred to as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Historically, this has been described by the Nicene (325 A.D.), Apostles’ (200 A.D.), and Athanasian Creeds (mid 300’s A.D.) although it is not […]
Evangelical Christians can be Liberals, too
By Rev. CHRIS EMERSON THE 2004 election was a war of words. Take the word, “evangelical.” Campaign strategists in both parties used “evangelical” as a tool for uniting their constituency against the other party. They created the fiction that evangelicals are a united bloc, a monolith of identical religious convictions, friendly territory for Republicans, hostile […]
Religious fanatic? Blame it on ‘god gene’
Monday November 15, 1:39 PM By Indo-Asian News Service London, Nov 15 (IANS) “God genes” are responsible for creating religious fanatics, says new scientific research – much to the chagrin of church representatives. The findings of Dean Hamer, director of the US National Cancer Institute’s Gene Structure and Regulation Unit, also claim that Jesus, the […]
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