Theology
The New-Old Evangelicals
*Sightings* 2/4/08 — Martin E. Marty “Anything anybody can say about Evangelicalism is true” is my take-off from Emmett Grogan’s “Anything anybody can say about America is true.” He and his truism issued from the sixties, a period when I would not have known about or spoken of the Protean character of modern American evangelicalism. […]
The Confessional
27 August 2008 Press Release Differences between a Baptist and Catholic position Australian Baptist minister of 31 years Mark Tronson points out the differences between his view as a Baptist and the Roman Catholic position on ‘the secrecy of the confessional’. As explained by Sydney priest John Lucas, this Roman rite is above moral law; […]
Archbishop’s Pastoral Letter to Bishops of the Anglican Communion
Posted On : August 26, 2008 2:12 PM ACNS: http://aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/8/26/ACNS4514 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has today sent a letter to the bishops of the Anglican Communion, setting out his personal reflections on the Lambeth Conference. The full text of the letter can be found below: As the Lambeth Conference of 2008 comes […]
How do we know about God?
From a friend: I like to think there are three works about God. One is autobiographical, God is the author – we call it creation. It seems too big for us to comprehend though it is wonderful to try. Second is biographical by a close relative – we call it incarnation, smaller for us to […]
Archbishop of Canterbury accuses Anglicans of threatening ‘death to each other’
Archbishop of Canterbury accuses Anglicans of threatening ‘death to each other’ The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the opposing sides in the Anglican Communion’s divide over sexuality of “threatening death to each other”, in an emotional plea for peace. By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent Last Updated: 12:23PM BST 30 Jul 2008 Dr Rowan Williams […]
Rome Does Change
Sightings 7/28/08 On Women’s Ordination — Martin E. Marty Robert J. Egan, S. J., of Gonzaga University, started it all (this round) with an article in the April 11 *Commonweal*, in which he asked whether official Roman Catholics ought to consider reconsidering the Vatican declarations against the ordination of women to the priesthood. In best […]
Christ who owns the universe
“In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine!” Abraham Kuyper
The Domain of Goodness
The Religion Works Sermons by Harry T. Cook July 27, 2008 To read this week’s sermon, “The Domain of Goodness,” just scroll down. This is an exercise in making contemporary and accessible sense out of a time-worn biblical term: kingdom of heaven. We’re not much into the concept of kingdom any more, and heaven has […]
Eckhart Tolle And The Christian Tradition (richard Rohr)
ECKHART TOLLE AND THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION By Richard Rohr, OFM Although Eckhart Tolle is arousing great interest today, many think he is a novelty, New Age, or even non-religious. The process—and that is what it is—that he is teaching, can be traced through the Greek and Latin traditions of contemplation, the apophatic tradition in particular, […]
What is a Fundamentalist?
(Note from Rowland: this is from a liberal friend; whilst I agree with his aversion to Fundamentalism in most respects, I could also write a similar diatribe against Liberalism. See e.g. http://jmm.org.au/articles/9090.htm ***** In the interest of clarity, let me affirm that I do, indeed, make a distinction between Christians and fundamentalists. …. In short: […]
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