Theology
The CROSS OF CHRIST: Notes for Reflection/Discussion
Wednesday Koinonia 28/3/2012: THE CROSS OF CHRIST ¢â‚¬ Surnames ( ¢â‚¬ËœCroucher ¢â‚¬â„¢ = ¢â‚¬Ëœa dweller near the cross ¢â‚¬â„¢) ¢â‚¬ Reactions to the movie The Passion of Christ? Too/violent? Catholic? Realistic? Anti-semitic? ¢â‚¬ Who killed Jesus? ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬ËœHow has this bloodied man changed history? ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ The three great existential questions: Guilt? Love? Death? (1) God so loved, that […]
Richard Rohr: The Scapegoat Mechanism
In his 2011 book, A Lever and a Place to Stand, Richard Rohr revisits many of his grand themes. Here are some notes from his short section ¢â‚¬ËœThe Scapegoat Mechanism ¢â‚¬â„¢ (pp. 76 ff.). Note: he has read Rene Girard on this broad issue, and quotes him elsewhere in the book, but not on these few […]
Women are still second-class citizens
Sightings 3/22/2012 Patriarchy ¢â‚¬â„¢s Persistent Bastion? Religion — Felice Lifshitz In a March 8 Washington Post article ( ¢â‚¬Å“Feminism ¢â‚¬â„¢s Final Frontier? Religion ¢â‚¬ ), Lisa Miller predicted that American women would soon abandon the Republican party in droves, just as they are reportedly quitting conservative Christian churches in historically large numbers. In both cases, women’s disaffection appears to be […]
Religion of Atheism
Sightings 2/20/2012 Religion of Atheism — Martin E. Marty Notice: This is an alert, not a review. Repeat: This is an alert, not a review. In our sights this week ¢â‚¬”they would be hard to miss ¢â‚¬”are notices of Alain de Botton ¢â‚¬â„¢s Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer ¢â‚¬â„¢s Guide to the Uses of Religion. The ethic of reviewers demands that […]
Mere Apologetics
Review: Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith (Alister McGrath, Baker, 2012). Alister McGrath and Tom Wright are the two most prolific ¢â‚¬Ëœconservative evangelical ¢â‚¬â„¢ theological writers in the U.K. these days. [1] But there ¢â‚¬â„¢s something unusual about their approach (and this is especially true of the ¢â‚¬Ëœlater ¢â‚¬â„¢ McGrath): they ¢â‚¬â„¢re becoming less prescriptive […]
Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People by Charlie Campbell – review
Charlie Campbell’s panoramic survey of humanity’s tendency to blame others might just help buck your ideas up Christopher Bray The Observer, Sunday 25 September 2011 If only ¢â‚¬ ¦ Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Remember the big scene in On the Waterfront, when former boxer Terry Malloy (played by Marlon Brando) […]
THE NEW EVANGELICALS: HOW CHRISTIANS ARE RETHINKING ABORTION AND GAY MARRIAGE
Marcia PallyABC RELIGION AND ETHICS28 DEC 2011 In 2005, no less a publication than Christianity Today wrote, “George W. Bush is not Lord … The American flag is not the Cross. The Pledge of Allegiance is not the Creed. ‘God Bless America’ is not Doxology.” For Christianity Today to have so declared must mean that someone at the time indeed did […]
Theologians, like parents, are invited to be humble as well as (frequently) ignorant…
What God Thinks of the Theology Books We Write Posted on January 17, 2012 by peteenns What we think of the theology books we write: Well, I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve worked for years on this, and I have to say I think I nailed it. It ¢â‚¬â„¢s not perfect, but I am sure this will be a lasting contribution to thinking Christians […]
The Jesus Driven Life
From: Nathan Nettleton <[email protected]> Subject: Book Review: The Jesus Driven Life I’ve just finished reading an outstanding book called “The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity with Jesus” by Michael Hardin (Lancaster: JDL Press, 2010). It is not easy to find, but can be ordered online from the author athttp://www.preachingpeace.org/jdlpress/ It comes with enthusiastic Foreword and […]
INCARNATION
Sunday, December 25 Christmas Day Today, Jesus as Wisdom, Adonai, Root of Jesse, Key, Rising Sun, King, and Emmanuel come together in the celebration of His birth. The day was chosen in the early Roman church to replace the civil festival of the Rebirth of the Sun, which they could […]
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