Theology
Baptist Notions Of ‘Ordination’
=== Email from a Baptist eFriend: I am interested in hearing from people about their understanding of ordination in the context of the Baptist tradition. Beliefs like the ‘priesthood of all believers’ and ‘congregational government’ seem to rob ordination of any meaning, that is if we take the meaning of ordination from more traditional hierarchial […]
There’s Feminism, And There’s This!
In an interesting article in last Sunday’s Melbourne’s Sunday Herald Sun (‘Why all women should feel betrayed’ 7/07/02) the founding editor, Tracey Linguey, argued that our women politicians (she cited Bronwyn Bishop, Carmen Lawrence, and of course Cheryl Kernot) have let the side down. ===>>> Final paragraph: ‘As a woman, I feel betrayed and I […]
Dreams
A ‘Net list-friend wrote: After looking at the O.T. reading for this Sunday – the story of Jacob’s ladder – I started to think about the place of dreams in our understanding of, and experience of, God. Dreams seem to be an aspect of human imagination and imagination has had a lot of bad press. […]
Church And Kingdom
An exchange on a list I’m on, re the concept of ‘Open Membership’ in Baptist Churches – and the relevance of this discussion to notions of ‘Church’ and ‘Kingdom’. It seems that we need to ask ourselves afresh about the nature of the church. Rowland assumes that church = kingdom of God. Not really/quite… see […]
Baptism And Salvation
A ‘Net list-friend wrote: May I add a little to the discussion? Over the years I have had to counter a group called Revival Centres of Australia who teach clearly that unless a person is baptised, he/she is not saved. To which another replied: When I conduct baptismal classes, I put the following verse before […]
Let Him Come Down Here
It had been a long, hot, frustrating day for many people, only now, at this late hour, was the hustle and bustle of the day beginning to fade away. The small Judean village was badly overcrowded as many times its normal number of inhabitants had gathered to register, and be counted, at the whim of […]
God In Three Persons
How can God be three persons? Or in other words, how can God be a trinity? To be perfectly honest I’m not really sure. And I’m not really sure that any answer from any theologian, ancient or modern, that I have read, as ever really given me a satisfactory answer. Not that I’m really concerned […]
God In Plural?
From: “Ken Smith” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: “God” in Plural? > Sam Giltnick writes: > > >An atheist I was talking to claimed that in the beginning of the Bible > >somewhere there was a reference to the word “God” in the plural in the > >original language, thus, he says, there is more than […]
Theologians Feisty Faith Challenges Status Quo
By PATRICK ONEILL Silk Hope, N.C. Stanley Hauerwas sat on the hand-me-down couch at the far end of the living room. His audience, a collection of Christian activists, many of whom had driven more than an hour to the talk, crammed into the kitchen, dining room, living room and two adjoining bedrooms of the Silk […]
The Time Is Now!
Abba Anthony said, “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, ‘You are mad, you are not like us’.”
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