Theology
Homosexuality And The Anglican Church: A Response
I was intrigued by the distinction in Rowland’s article about where we stand on the simplicity-complexity scale, because I think I’m becoming increasingly simplistic in my views on how the churches should be responding to the questions about the place of homosexual Christians. To me now, the key text is Acts 10: 44-48 where Peter […]
Homosexuality: Another Response
From a netfriend: Acts 10:44-48 is dealing primarily with the issue of God’s salvific mercy being extended beyond the cultural borders of Judaism and with Peter’s, and no doubt others’, prejudice and limited grasp of the scope of God’s saving love. Praise God that ‘there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor […]
Homosexual Pastors
One netfriend: I am was quite amazed to see your jump from baptising those who have recieved the holy spirit to ordaining homosexuals. To say “back God” on an issue that so strong in the whole NT, that of the gospel is for all people groups not just the Jews is fine. Another: But it […]
Twelve Theses – John Shelby Spong
from “Here I Stand” ( HarperCollins; New York:2000 pp. 468 -469) Drawn from my book Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile A Call for a New Reformation 1. Theism, as a way of defining God, is dead. God can no longer be understood with credibility as a Being, […]
Homosexuality And The Anglican Church
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ANGLICAN CHURCH: LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES MAY BOTH BE WRONG When a secular newspaper like The (Melbourne) Age publishes news, letters and opinion pieces most days for two months about a socio-religious matter, something important is going on. Take yesterday, for example: Bishop John Shelby Spong tells Barney Zwartz ‘Homosexuality is like being […]
Thoughts To Ponder About Religion
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylums shows that faith does not […]
Philosophy
Do you know that Western Cartesian philosophy was started by a Christian? Read the following from Rene Descartes – “Meditations on First Philosophy” (1641) ****************** To the Most Wise and Illustrious Men: The Dean and Doctors Of the Sacred Faculty of Theology in Paris. The motive which induces me to present to you this Treatise […]
God Within
I sometimes wonder if the standard method of enquiry for moderns is to apply the underlying principle of our era, “if it feels good, do it,” and assert whatever pops into their heads. I think a look at the religion shelf in a general bookseller would tend to support this. Whether that is the case […]
Midrashic Technique
from John Shelby Spong’s “Liberating The Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes, Freeing Jesus from 2000 years of misunderstanding” (HarperSan Francisco: I996) pp. ix – xiv **************************************** This book was horn as early as January I99I, when I was on sabbatical at Magdalen College, Oxford. At that moment I was working on the birth […]
Slavery
THE OLD TESTAMENT AND SLAVERY So what does the Old Testament have to say about slavery? The book of Leviticus (25:44) commands that Israelites must not be sold as slaves but : “Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you, from them you may buy slaves” So far from saying […]
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