Theology
The Nicene Creed
The Nicene Creed is the most widely accepted and used brief statements of the Christian Faith. In liturgical churches, it is said every Sunday as part of the Liturgy. It is Common Ground to East Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Calvinists, and many other Christian groups. Many groups that do not have a tradition of […]
Religion Compatible With Science
The domain of the religious, I submit, is evocative, expressive, emotive. It presents moral poetry, aesthetic inspiration, performative ceremonial rituals, which act out and dramatize the human condition and human interests, and seek to slake the thirst for meaning and purpose. Religions-at least the religions of revelation-deal in parables, narratives metaphors, stories, myths; and they […]
The Nicene Creed Vs. Jesus’ Emphases
In another thread Chief_Sinner wrote (in what he said would be his swan-song post, but I hope it isn’t): You see -he- (Taylor) is -not- a lynchpin of my belief (as the Church is). If on the other hand you -were- able to show an area where the Church spoke which has since been proved […]
Creation :-)
Here’s a version of the creation-story you won’t find in the Bible 🙂 Shalom! Rowland Croucher ~~~ In the beginning, God created a heaving earth, and it was in ferment, and no life moved upon it, not even the creeping thing. And God looked thereat and said “Let there be life.” And lo the waters […]
The Creeds And Christian ‘Orthodoxy’
From: “Ninure Saunders” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,alt.christnet.theology Subject: Re: The Nicene Creed vs. Jesus' emphases Rowland wrote: > -Now, class, please turn to Matthew 23:23, and Luke 11:42, where in Jesus' > -diatribes against the Pharisees – his contemporary propositionalists – Jesus > -says they might be orthodox but they've missed the main points – social > […]
Quotes From The Church Fathers
From St. Peter of Damaskos (Book 1: A Treasury of Divine Knowledge, The Philokalia Vol. 3 edited by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware; Faber and Faber pg. 208): “…even the doing of what is good requires discrimination…for the good is not good unless its purpose is conformed to God’s will.” More… http://home.earthlink.net/~kcw7/_wsn/page2.html
Creeds And Formulas
An exchange quoted by Anthony de Mello:. “What is it you seek?” asked the Master of a scholar who came to him for guidance. “Life,” was the reply. Said the Master, “If you are to live, words must die.” When asked later what he meant, he said, “You are lost and forlorn because you dwell […]
Sin And The Fall
From a ‘Net friend: God made us free, so that we could choose whether or not to be sinful. A good fictional account of what *could* have happened can be read in “Perelanda” (that is the original title: published these days as “Voyage to Venus”) by C.S. Lewis. It is the story of a couple […]
Fundamentalists Anonymous
From http://www.kingdomgod.org/fundanon/twelvesteps.htm Fundamentalists Anonymous: Twelve Steps to Sanity by Lee Adams Young ————————————————————————– — —- All who have chosen to walk away from biblical fundamentalism are welcome to join Fundamentalists Anonymous, and to consider embracing the following Twelve Steps: ————————————————————————– — —- 1. I realize that I had turned control of my mind over to […]
Annihiationism
Annihilationism is, succinctly, the belief that those who die outside of the parameters of salvation (i.e. in a state of unrighteousness) will suffer, not eternal conscious punishment in hell, but eternal non-existence (death). In it’s purest form, the case for annihilationism is conducted within the parameters of that aspect of personal eschatology which deals with […]
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