Theology
Panentheism
“Anton hein” wrote: Er… I am the co-publisher of Apologetics Index – a web site that encourages independent research. …. The site, which includes over 10,000 pages, needs lots of work to further expand entries – including the one on panentheism: http://www.apologeticsindex.org/p00.html#panentheism Mark responded: It may be better to look at a broader philosophic definition […]
In Defense of Biblical Marriage
(Note: switch on your irony software 🙂 >From a poster to Newsgroups: alt.christnet.christianlife > the President as he seeks wisdom on how to legally codify the > definition of marriage. Pray that it will be according to Biblical > principles. With many forces insisting on variant definitions of > marriage, pray that God's Word and […]
Trinity in the Old Testament?
A netfriend wrote in message . Pro 30:4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell? […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [9]
(Part Nine) (Adapted from chapter one of ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’ by Rowland C.Croucher, John Mark Ministries 1986/1995. 2. Social ethics We have already touched on the issue of evangelicals and social concern. Here we must add just a couple of further points. Evangelicals are becoming increasingly restive with our propensity to concentrate on private […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [7]
(Part Seven) (Adapted from chapter one of ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’ by Rowland C.Croucher, John Mark Ministries 1986/1995. Evangelicals and mission Since Lausanne I, evangelicals have been concerned with three dimensions of our mission to the world: strategy, social concern and the supernatural. 1. Strategy Presently, 1.5 billion people consider themselves Christians and are associated […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [8]
RECENT TRENDS AMONG EVANGELICALS (Part Eight) (Adapted from chapter one of ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’ by Rowland C.Croucher, John Mark Ministries 1986/1995. Spirituality and spiritual direction We now look at the other side of the action/reflection nexus. Since Thomas Merton, the church around the world has become ‘conscientised’ not only about its need for solidarity […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [3]
(Part Three) (Adapted from chapter one of ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’ by Rowland C.Croucher, John Mark Ministries 1986/1995. Authority and our view of scripture This leads us to the most contentious issue within evangelicalism today: the question of biblical inerrancy. In 1976 a book appeared which did more than any other in the last thirty […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [6]
(Part Six) (Adapted from chapter one of ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’ by Rowland C.Croucher, John Mark Ministries 1986/1995. Evangelicals and Catholics Nowhere has this increasingly irenic spirit been more evident than in the growing accord between Protestant evangelicals and our Catholic and Orthodox brothers and sisters. On several occasions, for example, at the World Council […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [10]
(Part Ten) (Adapted from chapter one of ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’ by Rowland C. Croucher, John Mark Ministries 1986/1995. Some conclusions: the way forward In 1974, Richard Quebedeaux introduced us to ‘the young evangelicals’. Then in 1976 he wrote about ‘the new charismatics’. In 1978 it was ‘the worldly evangelicals’. He says there are three […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [5]
(Part Five) (Adapted from chapter one of ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’ by Rowland C.Croucher, John Mark Ministries 1986/1995. Let us now, more briefly, note other trends in modern evangelicalism. Ecumenism Increasingly, for progressive evangelicals, ecumenism is becoming less of a dirty word. Donald Bloesch, for example, calls for a more ‘catholic evangelicalism’ and ecumenical dialogue […]
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