Theology
The Emerging Evangelicals
Sightings* 11/18/2010 Jenny Rae Armstrong The recent GOP rebound has been regarded by many as a victory belonging to rifle-toting, SUV driving, born-again Christians. But to oversimplify evangelicals in this manner is to ignore a growing rift within their ranks. Few mainstream evangelicals have attempted to link laissez-faire capitalism with the teachings of Jesus. Even […]
The Prosperity Gospel: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Author: Daniel Bourdann ƒ © Date: 02.09.2010 Editor ¢â‚¬â„¢s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Daniel Bourdann ƒ © as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on ¢â‚¬Å“Poverty, Prosperity and the Gospel. ¢â‚¬ Responses to this paper through the Lausanne Global Conversation will be fed back to the author and […]
Jottings from Marcus Borg (The God We Never Knew)
* ‘Because I see myself as a nonspecialist, I do not see this book as a scholarly discussion of God but as an accessible exposition of some quite general insights about the importance of how we think about God’ (vii) * God to Moses: ‘I am who I am’. Martin Buber: the Hebrew verb ehyeh […]
Jesus kicked out of church
A man has been kicked out of a church in the US – for dressing like Jesus. Neil Thompson dresses up like Jesus and goes to a new church every week. But when he got to St Pauls Church in St Louis, Missouri, police were called and he was asked to leave. Melbourne Age Odd […]
The Cape Town Commitment
The Cape Town Commitment – A Declaration of Belief and a Call to Action Author: The Lausanne Movement Date: 24.10.2010 Category: Partnership The Cape Town Commitment is a two-part document. Part 1 is ¢â‚¬Å“What We Believe. ¢â‚¬ It was put together by a group of theologians from around the world. Part 2 is expected to be […]
God and Human Suffering
Reflections on Douglas John Hall ¢â‚¬â„¢s God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross Mark D. Baker Driving down the hill from my house in Tegucigalpa, as an evening rain began, I noticed a common sight. Someone was walking along the road carrying a bundle. Those of us with a lot more […]
The Historical Jesus and the Life of Faith
by David L. Bartlett David L. Bartlett is Lantz Professor of Communication and Preaching at Yale University Divinity School. This article appeared in The Christian Century, May 6, 1992, pp. 489-493. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at http://www.christiancentury.org. Article prepared for Religion Online […]
The Historical Jesus and Christian Theology (N T Wright)
(Originally published in Sewanee Theological Review 39, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. T. WRIGHT The quest for the historical Jesus began as a protest against traditional Christian dogma, but when the supposedly ¢â‚¬Ëœ ¢â‚¬Ëœneutral ¢â‚¬ historians peered into the well, all they saw was a featureless Jesus. Even when scholars decided that other biblical […]
The Wright Quest for the Historical Jesus
by Ben Witherington, III Ben Witherington III, professor of New Testament interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, is the author of The Jesus Quest and The Christology of Jesus. This article appeared in The Christian Century, November 19-26, 1997, pp. 1075-1078. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation, used by permission. Current articles and […]
THE HISTORICAL JESUS PUZZLE
William R. G. Loader In this paper I shall address three main questions: Why ask about the historical Jesus? What new data do we have to warrant more research? and What, if any, findings can we identify in current research? [1] 1. Why ask about the historical Jesus? The first is a serious question. Why […]
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