Theology
God as Being
From a (theologically liberal) friend: Read John A T Robinson – “Honest to God” (SCM Press: 1963) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ … three pieces of writing, all brief, which contain ideas that immediately found lodgement when I first read them … *[1] Paul Tillich … “The Shaking of The Foundations” … God, Tillich was saying, is not a […]
Why Pentecostalism is the World’s Fastest Growing Faith
Signs and Wonders: Why Pentecostalism Is the World’s Fastest Growing Faith by Paul Alexander Combining personal stories and sound scholarship, Paul Alexander, a young scholar with a Pentecostal background, examines the phenomenal worldwide success of Pentecostalism. While brought up a Pentecostal, the author studied under John Howard Yoder and Stanley Hauerwas. On a journey thru […]
Theologians and Unity
Global theologians’ meeting looks at issues that divide churches A global gathering in Crete of theologians from most major Christian traditions has concluded with a call for churches to show greater tolerance of each other on contentious issues which divide them. “If we are really to be open to each other we need to be […]
Theological debate
(See the article ‘Monastery Blues’…) From a friend: “Reminds me of the quip that the Christological controversies of the 3-4 century were over a diphthong in the word homoousion and homoeousion.”
Forgiveness in Islam
Allah forgives a man who continually repents after sinning I heard the Prophet saying, “If somebody commits a sin and then says, ‘O my Lord! I have sinned, please forgive me!’ and his Lord says, ‘My slave has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for it, I therefore have forgiven […]
Christian fundamentalism
Matt McNulty: Christian fundamentalism and its fundamental flaws A couple years ago, when I was living in Clementon, New Jersey, a profoundly disturbing thing happened. I was off from work, trying to relax in my living room, when someone knocked at the front door. Even though the neighborhood had been going steadily downhill — at […]
The Millennium: Will Christ Reign on Earth for 1000 years?
I’ve had an interest in this subject since childhood in a Brethren Assembly, where the wisest thing I ever heard was ‘It’s a good idea to concentrate on the material *between* Scofield’s notes’. Try this re Revelation 20:1-6: The Utopian idea of a one-world government by Christ has fascinated and excited Christians for a long […]
Karen Armstrong: The Case for God
Karen Armstrong “The Case for God : What Religion Really Means”(Bodley Head: 2009) All quiet on the God front Simon Blackburn The Guardian, Saturday 4 July 2009 Simon Blackburn discusses the argument that religious experience can’t be discussed This is an eloquent and interesting book, although you do not quite get what it says on […]
The God Debate
Religion for Radicals: An Interview with Terry Eagleton by Nathan Schneider Literary critic Terry Eagleton discusses his new book, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, which argues that “new atheists” like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens “buy their rejection of religion on the cheap.” He believes that, in these controversies, politics has […]
Women silent?
Moltmann says, “If women were always silent we’d have no knowledge of the resurrection of Christ.”
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