Theology
The Good Samaritan
From a theologically-educated friend: I remember a rollicking ride in a coach along the road from Jerusalem to Jericho. There was a rapidly rising hill on the right with some stone ruins on it. Our tour guide announced that the ruins on the right were all that was left of the inn of the good […]
Australia’s ‘first’ ‘saint’
http://jmm.org.au/articles/23297.htm Theology: Australia ¢â‚¬â„¢s First Saint: February 26, 2010 A home-grown saint : it ¢â‚¬â„¢s gold, gold, gold for Australia February 22, 2010 by Barney Zwartz For 40 years Garry McLean has longed for an Australian saint. Growing up, he was taught about Joan of Arc and St Patrick of Ireland and found them inspirational, but […]
Japanese pastor dismissed for giving communion to unbaptised
February 19, 2010 Japan’s largest Protestant denomination has dismissed one of its pastors for continuing to allow unbaptised people to receive Holy Communion at his local church. The sacked minister, the Rev. Jiro Kitamura of the United Church of Christ in Japan, is appealing the decision because he says he cannot accept it. The pastor […]
Unholy Hands on the Bible: An Introduction to Textual Criticism
(Hardcover) ~ Dean J. Burgon (Author) 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Laymans Look, December 7, 2001 By A Customer This is an excellent, comprehensive, scholarly, yet understandable study of the textual criticism issue of the Bible in general and the King James Version in particular. This […]
Doubt and faith
Doubt means rejecting conventional and superstitious surrogates that have taken the place of faith. ‘On this level, the division between Believer and Unbeliever ceases to be so crystal clear. It’s not that some are all right and others all wrong; all are bound to seek in honest perplexity. Everybody is an Unbeliever more or less!’ […]
The Threat of fundmentalism?
The threat of fundmentalism? Some Christian and Muslim Perspectives: Compass Review of Topic l Theology , Winter 2004. Volume 38, No 2, 14-18. by Trish Madigan OP … All fundamentalisms, in whatever context they emerge, tend to share some common features. They can be described as ‘a process of selective retrieval, embellishment and construction of […]
Resisting Modernity: The Backlash against Secularism
Journal article by Karen Armstrong; Harvard International Review, Vol. 25, 2004 Resisting Modernity: The Backlash against Secularism. by Karen Armstrong By the middle of the 20th century, pundits and intellectuals in the West generally took it for granted that secularism was the coming ideology and that religion would never again play a major role in […]
Facing up to fundamentalism
Simon Barrow Abstract A description, analysis and overview (including guidelines for response) to Christian fundamentalism in particular and the ‘fundamentalist mindset’ more generally. “Fundamentalism has suddenly become a matter of concern for everyone, whether or not they are personally religious. It affects education in science and history; it affects political elections in some countries, and […]
JOY
Heard in church yesterday: ‘The old Sunday School maxim “J-O-Y means Jesus first, others second, yourself last” is not only heresy, but as C S Lewis wrote somewhere it’s an inverted form of snobbery.’ So waddaya think of that?
Theological education: what is it for?
A while back, I was asked to write a few paragraphs on theological education for some church magazine. So I wrote the following: Last semester I taught a class on the doctrine of the Trinity: a notoriously difficult and challenging topic! Later in the year, I heard one of the students from that class leading […]
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