Theology
The Bible and Marriage
Note: this is a send-up of the traditional view of marriage – but should provoke some thinking about hermeneutics! Shalom! Rowland Croucher ~~~ Defend marriage just as God has ordered As certain politicians work diligently to prevent marriage between two people of the same sex, others of us have been busy drafting a Constitutional Amendment […]
Bible and violence
Again: what is a modern hermeneutic for these…??? Shalom! Rowland Croucher ~~~ Do you like these verses? Deuteronomy 20:13 When the LORD your God delivers [a city] into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may […]
Honest To God – John A T Robinson
From Mark Tindall The following from John A T Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich, ‘Honest To God’ (SCM, London: 1963) ******************** For in place of a God who is literally or physically ‘up there’ we have accepted, as part of our mental furniture, a God who is spirtitually or metaphysically ‘out there’. p. 13 [Robinson argues […]
Fundamentalist Christians are poorly educated. True or False?
A netfriend asked: ‘Fundamentalist Christians are poorly educated. True or False?’ Just a question. Anyone here with a college degree. How about a masters or doctorate? Another responded: ***Does having a certificate showing that you did what someone wanted you to do…make you educated in life? or just the subjects you took? Some of the […]
What The Bible Says About The Holy Spirit
(Outline of a sermon preached in the Central Baptist Church, Sydney in the late 1960s – by Rev Rowland Croucher) “The story of the Bible is the story of Spirit-filled men and women” 1 OLD TESTAMENT “For the OT writers the Spirit of God denotes God in His activity in the world” (JAF Gregg). The […]
The Unity of the Body
A netfriend wrote (sermon by a conservative evangelical whom I regard highly): Surfing the web and ran across this excerpt of a sermon by Ray Stedman: …..You don’t produce a body by combining bits and pieces of anatomy together. A body is formed by the growth and multiplication of many cells from one original cell. […]
What is a cult?
From a netfriend: What is a “cult”? http://www.dictionary.com Cult ( P ) Pronunciation Key (klt) n. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. The followers of such a religion or sect. An exclusive […]
There are no outsiders: Desmond Tutu
ACNS 3789 | ACO | 27 FEBRUARY 2004 There are no outsiders: Desmond Tutu Photographs for this story can be found at: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/articles/37/75/acns3789.cfm By Michael Craske The Archbishop Emeritus of Southern Africa, the Most Revd Desmond Tutu visited the Anglican Communion Office on Ash Wednesday to lead an intimate and reflective service of the imposition […]
Second Coming
A netfriend wrote in message . We cannot know the “Day or the Hour,” but we can know that He will come in our generation. My response: An event (in this case the second coming or ‘parousia’) whose timing is unknown, but is in fact to be a lover’s reunion, will always be ‘imminent’ for […]
Scholarship
[Responding to someone on a newsgroup who commented about another’s credentials. The ‘other’ hadn’t got any academic qualifications]. I haven’t the time these guys have to deal with this’nthat… but thought I would add something to _ _ _ _‘s comment about _ _ _ _‘s ‘credentials’… When writing/teaching on subjects theological/eschatological autodidacts are at […]
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