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“Theology is a device to enable agnostics to stay within the Church”. Yes Prime Minister
Faith and Works
The Spiritual Masters teach us that God is known in two main ways – via mystery, and obligation. Stay with me: obligation is doing what is good and right and just, even to one’s disadvantage. The genius of the Hebrew prophets and Jesus lay in their emphasizing that the second is no less important than […]
Jesus’ Resurrection 97% certain
Apologia puts faith in lap of the odds By Barney Zwartz July 19, 2005 Page Tools It is 97 per cent certain God raised Jesus from the dead – based on logic and mathematics, not faith – says an Oxford professor, Richard Swinburne. “New Testament scholars say the only evidence are witnesses in the four […]
The Most Astounding Sentence Ever Written?
David H C Read’s suggestion: ‘The Word became a human being and lived among us’. (Expository Times, November 1976, p. 47)
Decoding God’s Changing Moods
By Robert Wright Monday, Jun. 15, 2009 The ancient Israelites got straightforward guidance from scripture on how to handle people who didn’t worship Israel’s god, Yahweh. “You shall annihilate them – the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites – just as the Lord your God has commanded.” […]
Christianity – and the Weak
“Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power, and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear … Christendom adjusts itself far too easiliy to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than […]
Illicit Celibacy and the Deposit of Faith
(Sent by a netfriend: although the author is self-taught, not an accredited scholar, I’m including this because of the importance of the subject. Rowland Croucher May 1, 2009). Since American Catholics first became aware of sex abuse allegations surrounding our priesthood a plethora of books have appeared, most of which question or challenge the efficacy […]
Orthodoxy and Liberalism
From a netfriend: prompted by the article on Liberalism and Frances Macnab (look up the relevant articles under keywords McNab or Macnab and/or liberalism, mainline churches). **** Somewhere in all of this there was a reference made to Schleiermacher. He was one of the first names that came to mind while researching McNab. I completely […]
Ways to be Saved!
From a Usenet newsgroup: If you want to look at all the different ways of being saved, it seems all you have to do is: – Say the right things – Matthew 12:37 – Do the right things – John 5:29, Psalm 62:12, Jeremiah 17:10, Ezekiel 18:27, Matthew 16.27, Matthew 25:34-36, Romans 2:6, 13, 2 […]
Visit to a Mainline ‘Liberal/Progressive’ Church
Here are some rough notes I scribbled after Jan and I visited what is probably Australia’s largest theologically liberal congregation, St. Michael’s Uniting Church in Collins St, pastored by well-known pastor/author/counsellor/provocateur Dr Frances Macnab. Their website introduces the congregation in these terms: ‘St Michael’s is a unique Christian presence in the city of Melbourne. It […]
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