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Liberal *and* evangelical: a neglected path

By and others ⋅ December 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Liberal and evangelical: a neglected path One of the more ironic failures of the church today is that so many liberal and conservative Christians equally confuse authentic Christian witness with one or other polarising position in the wider so-called culture wars over moral and social issues. Meanwhile, a significant majority of Christians suffer between those […]

Liberals and Evangelicals

By and others ⋅ December 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Lost? and Found! Down Under Brice Tennant Wednesday, 04 November 2009 14:45 American liberal-evangelical Christians are caught between two extremes. Conservative and liberal branches repeatedly attempt to define Christianity according to polarized stances on moral and social issues that leaves moderate liberal-evangelical Christians torn between two directions. Moderate liberal-evangelicals, who constitute the majority of Christians […]

History of Baptism

By and others ⋅ December 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(An interesting read for this Baptist): Introduction In our study of the history of Baptism, we must ask, what does BAPTIDZO mean? And very importantly, what does it not mean? These are critical question that must be asked in order to understand Christian baptism. We will address these two questions with some thoroughness in the […]

Catholics and Anglicans: A New Ecumenism

By and others ⋅ November 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A New Ecumenism — Gregory Syler Rome’s October 20th announcement that it will open the door for former Anglicans to join the Catholic Church led some to respond with suspicion, seeing the move as a conservative commentary on Anglican problems. That morning’s AP release, for instance, summarized Cardinal Levada’s statement and quickly focused on more […]

Atheists vs Catholics

By and others ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A plague of atheists has descended, and Catholics are the target GREG CRAVEN November 4, 2009 Comments 331 Attacking Christians is not really clever, witty or funny. FROM time immemorial, this world has been troubled by plagues. From bogong moths in Canberra to frogs in biblical Egypt, unwelcome and unlovely creatures have the awkward habit […]

Does God Love Demons?

By and others ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I put this onto my Facebook page (late October/early November 2009): SO DOES GOD LOVE DEMONS? First, complete the sentence ‘God is…’ Second, Jesus told us to love our enemies: is anyone saying God can’t do what he commands us to do? Third: Pharisees put creatures along a ‘line of deserving love’. They vary – […]

Mathematics and Fundamentalism

By and others ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

There was an uproar which resulted towards the end of the 19th century over Georg Cantor’s introduction of infinity into the foundations of matthematics. “Only God is infinite!” screamed the fundamentalists of the day. “Mathematics is the work of Satan!” I haven’t checked, but they were probably many of the people who had earlier proclaimed […]

Fundamentalism

By and others ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The most pronounced characteristics [of fundamentalists] are the following: (a) a very stong emphasis on the inerrancy of the Bible, the absence from it of any sort of error; (b) a strong hostility to modern theology and to the methods, results and implications of modern critical study of the Bible; (c) an assurance that those […]

Fundamentalism – again

By and others ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

From a friend, quoting Dr Peter Cameron, former Principal of St Andrew’s College, Sydney University which trains Presbyterian clergy: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ According to Jung , ‘God stands, omnipotent and free, above his Bible.” p.131 … the Fundamentalist will never ask what lies beyond the Bible, or what sort of religious experience was possible before there was […]

Anglicans and Rome (Martin Marty: brilliant!)

By and others ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

  Theology: Anglicans and Rome (Martin Marty: Brilliant!): October 28, 2009 *Sightings* 10/26/09 Anglicans and Rome  ¢â‚¬“ Martin E. Marty The top ecumenical, some are saying un- or anti-ecumenical, news of the year occurredOctober 20th with a Vatican announcement. Bypassing forty years of Anglican-RomanCatholic conversations-cum-negotiations and blindsiding Archbishop Rowan Williams, thehead of the seventy-million-member Anglican […]

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