Theology
Hell
Sightings 3/7/2011 Hell ¢â‚¬â„¢s Bell — Martin E. Marty Americans may have thought that cracks in the fa ƒ §ade and framework of evangelicalism would show up most visibly when serious evangelicals argued whether Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee would be the better presidential candidate. But now we have a chance to see that other divisive issues among […]
THE RETURN OF METAPHYSICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
John Milbank is delivering the prestigious 2011 Stanton Lectures at Cambridge University on the theme, “Philosophy: A Theological Critique.” This opening lecture was delivered on 19 January 2011. This series of lectures will not be concerned with either the philosophy of religion or philosophical theology. Instead, they will be about the relationship between philosophy and theology. […]
James Emery White: Christ Among the Dragons
James Emery White: Christ Among the Dragons: Finding Our Way Through Cultural Challenges (2010, IVP Books). From the dust jacket: ¢â‚¬ËœWhen medieval mapmakers came to the end of the world as they knew it, they would write on the edges of their maps, “Here Be Dragons.” Without a way to navigate, these areas were, at […]
Grace (C S Lewis)
¢â‚¬Å½’Christianity’s uniqueness?’ ‘That’s easy: grace.’ ‘To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you’ C S Lewis **** From Philip Yancey’s ‘What’s So Amazing About Grace?’ 1997 p. 45 and C S Lewis, “On Forgiveness”, ‘The Weight of Glory’, 1975, p. 125 (Both cited in James Emery […]
Liberal Christianity (is emptying churches)
Note from Rowland: I like this guy. He’s brilliant. I don’t agree with him in a lot of places, but I like the integrity of his search for truth. The following is a sad commentary on the wishful thinking of ultra-liberal theologian-pastors who believe their stance will somehow ‘attract more modern/postmodern people to the church’. […]
12 Days of Christmas
Twelve Days of Christmas is a traditional Christmas song, or Christmas Carol. The Twelve Days of Christmas are the days from December 25 to January 6 or the Twelfth Night. The date of the song’s first performance is not known, though it was used in European and Scandinavia traditions as early as the 16th century. […]
Second Coming of Christ (John Henry Newman)
‘Up to Christ’s coming in the flesh [he said] the course of things ran straight towards that end, nearing it by every step, but now, under the Gospel, that course has (if I may so speak) altered its direction, as regards His second coming, and runs, not towards the end, but along it, and on […]
Fundamentalism: Religion’s Worst Enemy
RELIGION IS POETRY OR IT IS NOTHING! By Paul Collins ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 10 DEC 2010 Is religion really under threat in the contemporary world? Yes, I think it is, but not from the diatribes of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and their confreres. A much more serious threat comes from fundamentalism, from the […]
Diversity vs Orthodoxy
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination With Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity, by Andreas J. K ƒ ¶stenberger and Michael J. Kruger booknews.com explains: “New Testament scholars K ƒ ¶stenberger (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) and Kruger (Reformed Theological Seminary, North Carolina) challenge the pluralist and postmodernist purveyors of religious diversity who claim that orthodoxy was […]
The Trinity
Some random (and interesting) comments from Facebook friends: * “Here we have tiny finite minds trying to fathom the Infinite nature of God. It’s fun trying … but at the end of the day … we aint got a hope of unravelling the mystery of the Trinity. In fact, the doctrine of the Trinity doesn’t […]
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