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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Jesus seminar

By and others ⋅ April 24, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message . The problem is in the concept of God. God is infinite. Jesus is finite. To call Jesus God is to limit God to a finite form. My question: Mark: how did John/the redactor allow Thomas’ confession ‘My Lord > and my God’ to pass without Jesus’ correcting […]

Trinity Sunday

By and others ⋅ April 24, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Trinity Sunday is coming up. You might also be interested in scholarly understandings of Trinity. I would note how Richard of St.Victor explained Trinity in terms of love. 1. As a perfect being, God is all good. His goodness includes all love. 2. Love is inherently relational. 3. The meaningful relationships of love are I-self, […]

Who is Christ for us today? (Bonhoeffer)

By and others ⋅ April 23, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote What is Christ for us today? Bonhoeffer asked that. from Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Letters & Papers From Prison” (Collins, Fontana, SCM; London: 1953) p. 44 – Why is it that the Old Testament never punishes a man by depriving him of his liberty? p. 90-91 – You would be surprised and […]

Psychology of Religion – William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience

By and others ⋅ April 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… from http://www.psywww.com/psyrelig/psyrelpr.htm Notable People in Psychology of Religion by Michael E Nielsen, PhD  © 1994 – 2001 Michael Nielsen ……. William James 1842-1910 A U.S. psychologist and philosopher, James served as president of American Psychological Association, and wrote one of the first psychology textbooks. In the psychology […]

Evolution

By and others ⋅ April 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote Why are fundamentalists so IGNORANT about theistic evolution????? ‘Creationism is not the alternative to Evolution – ignorance is.’ The scientific fact of evolution does not deal with theology. It is a process of creation. Pseudo-science creationism is not mainstream theology. Pseudo-science creationism is not truth or science. Pseudo-science creationism is […]

Have we lost the three-dimensional Gospel?

By and others ⋅ April 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Have we lost the three-dimensional Gospel? Chris Wright reflects on the breadth of the Bible, the depth of the cross and the length of God’s mission. Introduction There are certainly those who would say that we are in danger of losing the fullness of the gospel. And the reason they would give is that in […]

Are evangelicals in the mainstream?

By and others ⋅ April 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Are evangelicals in the mainstream? Religion News Service (USA), Apr. 16, 2004 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6815-.html Three-quarters of U.S. evangelicals view themselves as part of mainstream American society, but believe they have to fight to be heard by mainstream Americans, according to a new survey. The results, pollsters said, indicate tensions between those who consider themselves evangelical Christians […]

Rethinking the place of Mary

By and others ⋅ April 18, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Rethinking the place of Mary Luke 1:26-56; 2:1-7; Jn 19:25-27 Last week I referred to a famous painting of the crucifixion, by fifteenth-century artist Matthias Gr ¼newald, and I drew your attention to the strange man Gr ¼newald has standing to the left of Jesus as he hung from the cross – the figure of John the […]

A Physician Testifies About the Crucifixion

By and others ⋅ April 13, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

WARNING – THIS IS VERY GRAPHIC! It is also very real, unfortunately. A Physician Testifies About the Crucifixion by Dr. C. Truman Davis About a decade ago, reading Jim Bishop’s The Day Christ Died, I realized that I had for years taken the Crucifixion more or less for granted — that I had grown callous […]

From gentle Jesus to macho Messiah

By and others ⋅ April 12, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

From gentle Jesus to macho Messiah April 10, 2004 Predictions of the Second Coming of Jesus as a vengeful warrior are gaining momentum in a post-September 11, evangelical America, writes David D. Kirkpatrick. Writers and artists have been imagining the Second Coming of Jesus for almost 2000 years, but few have portrayed him wreaking more […]

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