Theology
Would the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?
The visit of Bishop John Shelby Spong has once again prompted the average Australian to ask: “Who was Jesus?” and “Can we trust the Bible?” Paul Barnett, scholar and Anglican Bishop of North Sydney, clears away the doubts. Who’s Spong anyway? Bishop John Spong is Bishop of Newark in the Episcopal Church of the United […]
The Jesus Seminar
Are ¢â‚¬Å“The Jesus Seminar ¢â‚¬ criticisms of the gospels and Jesus Christ valid? Among those who work outside of the normal canons of historical research is ¢â‚¬Å“The Jesus Seminar, ¢â‚¬ [1] a gathering of the skeptical-minded whose conclusions are published in The Five Gospels.[2] Instead of demonstrating historical objectivity, their enterprise is a stacked deck of hostile presuppositions. […]
Jesus Seminar: pros and cons
Note from Rowland (October 2010): I’m on a writing retreat, and ploughing/plowing through a folder of print-outs on the JS. Here’s a miscellany of ideas to get you thinking. Although the JS has been termed ‘the greatest academic hoax since he Piltdown man’ (Jacob Neusner, cited by Richard N. Ostling, “Jesus Christ, Plain and Simple,” […]
FOR AND AGAINST FUNDAMENTALISM
By Michael Jensen ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 25 OCT 2010 FUNDAMENTALISM IS A MENTALITY TO BE AVOIDED IN WHATEVER GUISE, BUT ONE DOES NOT ESCHEW THE NAME “FUNDAMENTALIST” ON ACCOUNT OF WISHING TO LOOK RESPECTABLE. CREDIT: JENNIFER INGALL (ABC LOCAL RADIO). “Fundamentalism” is a disagreeable word, and someone who is a fundamentalist is usually […]
Essential theology books of the past 25 years
Oct 04, 2010 We posed this question to eight theologians: Suppose someone who hasn’t been keeping up with theology for the past 25 years now wants to read the most important books written during that time. What five titles would you suggest? Here are their responses: Stanley Hauerwas Amos Yong Emilie M. Townes Lawrence S. […]
Schleiermacher Reconsidered
by Rev. Prof. John Macquarrie (Expository Times, April 1969, pp. 196 ff.) Full article available here – http://ext.sagepub.com/content/80/7/196.extract Excerpts: Schleiermacher’s thesis: Faith is the attitude of the whole person, not merely an assent of the mind. Schleiermacher’s successor – Rudolf Otto, who credits Schleiermacher with nothing less than the ‘rediscovery of religion’, while his own […]
STANLEY HAUERWAS: theologian
THE PRIVATE STANLEY HAUERWAS AND HIS PUBLIC THEOLOGY By Bruce Kaye ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 30 SEP 2010 EVEN HIS MOST FEROCIOUS CRITICS AGREE THAT STANLEY HAUERWAS IS TOO IMPORTANT TO IGNORE. In 2001 Time magazine described Stanley Hauerwas as the best theologian in America. He thought this was hugely ironic and, at the […]
DO WE WORSHIP THE SAME GOD?
DO WE WORSHIP THE SAME GOD? By Peter Ochs ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 24 SEP 2010 PEOPLE MAY PROFESS KNOWLEDGE OF SOME GOD ONE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE, BUT THEIR MANNER OF WORSHIP AND LIFE MAY SUGGEST AN UNEXPECTED RELATION TO THE GOD ONE KNOWS. “Do we worship the same God?” This complex question, it […]
NAMING GOD
NAMING GOD By Stanley Hauerwas ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 24 SEP 2010 ONE OF THE IRONIES OF THE RECENT SPATE OF BOOKS DEFENDING ATHEISM IS THE CONFIDENCE THESE “NEW ATHEISTS” SEEM TO HAVE IN KNOWING WHICH GOD IT IS THEY ARE SURE DOES NOT EXIST. “God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having […]
The Passion Play and Anti-Semitism
*Sightings* 9/16/2010 Scholars Recommend Rewrite of 400-Year-Old Passion Play — By Eric J. Greenberg This spring ten scholars came together to discuss the removal of anti-semitic elements from the world ¢â‚¬â„¢s oldest Passion Play produced by the village of Oberammergau, Germany. The review of the play was part of a joint collaboration between the Anti-Defamation League […]
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