The current theological climate can best be characterized by the surprising collapse of God into the human community. The understandable and essential efforts of theologians to address the dignity, freedom, and equality of all human beings in the local and global community has led theologians of all stripes, from political and liberation theology to radical […]
I received a weekly mailing from AISH …. the Jewish community …. I love some of the things they post and this is one of the good ones …… Rosh Hashanna & Reviving the Living by Rebbetzin Tzipporah Heller *** Some people walk around as the living dead; others are the most alive when dying. […]
Guillermo: You wrote: Anyway, “The Last Temptation” does rise a point that has come to my attention again very recently, I’d like to read your opinions: During His earthly life, Was Jesus Christ aware that He was God Incarnate? And of course, this is NOT a Yes/No question. And does the answer to this question […]
A man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out. A subjective person came along and said, “I feel for you down there.” An objective person walked by and said, “It’s logical that someone would fall down there.” A Pharisee said, “Only bad people fall into pits.” A mathematician calculated how deep the pit […]
30 June 2001. Rowland, I have enjoyed reading articles on your website from time to time. Your series on recent trends in evangelicalism was especially meaningful to my wife and me several years ago as we moved from a conservative, strongly reformed evangelical church to a mainline Episcopal (USA) church. Today I read with interest […]
(Andrew Bromage) writes: >G’day all. >enterfornone writes: >>The Bible would need some significant changes in order to be >>non-sexist. I’d seriously question the accuracy of a non-sexist >>Bible. >You’re using the term in a different way than Rowland is. >I don’t think the term “non-sexist” is helpful here. A better term >is “gender accurate”. That […]
Just a few comments, Rowland. “Rowland Croucher” <> writes: >I’ve just modified this list ( it’s on >http://skyfamily.com/rcroucher/index9.html ) >Whast would you add/delete? >RECOMMENDED BOOKS. >What would you say are the 100 or so essential books a literate Christian – >particularly a pastor – should read? >Any response has to be personal/subjective of course. But […]
Aaron wrote in message . > >Terry & Utahna” wrote in message > . > I am an Independent, Bible Believing, Fundamentalist Baptist. However, in > the Pacific Northwest you have to be careful by calling yourself > Independent. Up there the term carries with it the association of being > BBF. I’m not sure […]
A NOTED 19th-century academic and prelate – it might have been Dr Spooner of Spoonerism fame; I’ve misplaced my source – once descended from the pulpit after preaching for an hour, stopped, turned, and climbed back up. “Of course,” he told his startled listeners, “every time I said Aristotle, I meant St Paul.” One can […]
The following is a select listing of obsolete terms and their meanings in current terminology. A more complete list may be found in The Interpreter’s Dictionary of The Bible published by Abingdon Press. The number of obsolete words is well over 1000, many of the words though obsolete in common language are still used in […]