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A Revolution In Theology Or A Theology Of Revolution?

More than 30 years ago, back in the good old days of the secular sixties, I was sitting on a college lawn in Durham, England, thinking about what I should do to prepare for my final doctrine exam the next day. I had two books. One was Quicke’s "Doctrines of the creed". It was reputed […]

Defending Tradition

Subject: Catholic vs Protestant Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 06:55:12 GMT+0600 From: 0.n7903.fmlynet.planetc.com (Stephen Hayes) Organization: http://www.fmlynet.org Newsgroups: alt.christnet.theology Stephen Adams wrote in a message to All: >>We come from similar perspectives. We are both Protestant, commenting >>on Roman Catholicism. Where we differ is that I hang back from >>asserting my superiority over the Catholics […]

Election

The DataRat wrote: > "All who would come, WILL come" > Quite so ! > > It's never been an issue of people > pounding on heaven's door being > refused admittance. > > Everybody who sincerely repents > and genuinely believes SHALL be > saved. > > The thing being that only the Elect […]

Baptism?

Captain Bartlett looked around him. The carnage was beyond belief. The bottom of the trench was littered with the dying and the wounded, but he could not tell who they were. The blood and the mud hid most of their features. Young men all of them, mere boys who had never even had the chance […]

Dealing With Our Differences

(Here’s an old one, but in some quarters not as improbable as you might think! – Rowland Croucher) I was walking across a bridge recently. I spied this guy who looked like he was ready to jump off. So, I thought I’d try to stall him until the authorities showed up (or at least until […]

Does God Love Sinners?

Subject: Does God love Sinners? Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:41:48 GMT From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Reply-To: Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion This is worth a new thread, and I have deleted our n.s.r friends from the topic because this is probably not their sort of thing. In

Theological Liberalism: A Seminarian’s Response

I’ve just finished my second year of Episcopal seminary. I’m frankly appalled at how absent the living Christ is from the day to day discourse there. Much of the biblical discussion revolves around things the bible got “wrong”. I seem to be the only one there who believes in the virgin birth and the resurrection. […]

The Holy Spirit

Subject: Re: The Apostle Paul Quoted Pagans Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 9:48:04 +0800 From: Nigel Mitchell <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion Rowland: >> The Holy Spirit is God-in-action… Graeme: > Whatever happened to the Holy Spirit being the thrid Person of the > Trinity, of the same essence and equal with God the Father and God […]

The Bible, The Church And Homosexuality

Subject: Re: Christian relationships Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:03:15 GMT From:   (Nigel B. Mitchell) Reply-To: Organization: iiNet Limited Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Hi, Darren. Sorry if you thought I was too brief in my last post. I hope I have redressed the balance here. Darren: >>> We were doing so well, agreeing and all. Of […]

The Creeds And Orthodoxy

Subject: Re: Especially for Nigel (and Chris Ho-Stuart): Christ the creator Date: 29 Sep 1999 07:49:11 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Further to what is or is not orthodox… This is pretty much unresearched, so I expect and hope useful correction from others better informed, like Graeme, Nigel, Darren, Rowland, or any number of others. […]