Theology
Mistakes In The Bible
From a netfriend on a newsgroup: Fundamentalists tell us we must follow the bible … but which verse if they contradict each other???? Please tell me which verse I should follow when it is impossible to follow both verses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Example ………… 24. Robbery commanded Ex 3:21,22/ Ex 12:35,36 Robbery forbidden Lev 19:13/ Ex 20:15 25. […]
Twelve Theses – John Shelby Spong
Note: articles like this are posted for thought/discussion, not necessarily because I agree! Rowland Croucher 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 […]
Getting The Center Of Faith Right
Religion in Daily Life By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church (215) 637-5225 Sunday, 2 March 2003 http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org What or who do you put at the center of your faith? Some people put the Bible at the center of their faith. The books of the Bible were written over a thousand year […]
Fundamentalism
To quote Peter Cameron’s “Fundamentalism and Freedom” (p.7)…. ********************** … the following features of Fundamentalists- a distrust and fear of freedom; a belief in the importance of authority and in controlling what people believe; a corre sponding preference for obedience rather than love; a desire to give people what they want rather than the truth: a […]
Fundamentalism
(from Peter Cameron’s “Fundamentalism and Freedom” (Doubleday; Sydney: 1995. pp. 6-7) ************** There is a story in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov about Christ coming back to earth during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. It’s called ‘The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor’, and in it Christ appears in Seville the day after a hundred heretics […]
Defining God As Persistent Energy
© By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. “Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!” Those words are taken from our National Anthem. The reference to God as “Power” reminds me of the words an early Christian poet. He described God as “the persistent energy of things.” If you take this as […]
Bono On Fundamentalists
“The new fundamentalists are very, very dangerous. To quote a preacher, “I had a sneak look at the back of the book” I so I know that the good guys will win in the end. In the meantime, the bad guys are in control and religion has become an industry – something that has more […]
Radical Statement Of Faith
1. We believe that the triune God is the origin and the ultimate goal of all things; and that, through Jesus Christ, we are called to give our allegiance to God and to make the Church our true dwelling place. We believe that the claims of Christ have priority over those of the state, the […]
Twelve Theses – John Shelby Spong
from “Here I Stand” ( HarperCollins; New York:2000 pp. 468 -469) 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, supernatural in power, dwelling above the sky and prepared to invade human history periodically to enforce the […]
The Making Of The King James Bible
Jonathan Yardley ‘God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible’ by Adam Nicolson By Jonathan Yardley Sunday, May 11, 2003; Page BW02 GOD’S SECRETARIES By Adam Nicolson HarperCollins. 281 pp. $24.95 The King James Bible, Adam Nicolson writes, “can lay claim to be the greatest work in prose ever written in English.” True enough, […]
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