Theology
Good News for the 21st Century
by Nils von Kalm The very beginning of the oldest gospel that we have, the Gospel of Mark, has Jesus proclaiming, in chapter 1:15: “The time has come. The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” But what is this good news? When someone says to you, “I have good […]
The Next Anglicanism?
July 18, 2008 by J. Peter Pham Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism. By Miranda K. Hassett. Princeton University Press, 2007. The bishops and other leaders gathering this month in Canterbury for the fourteenth Lambeth Conference will be considering the future of the Anglican Communion. The last […]
Fundamentalism in Europe
Sightings *7/21/08 — Martin E. Marty Off to Prague this week for the Tenth International (Dietrich) Bonhoeffer Congress, to present a synoptic view of fundamentalism(s). The conferees are probing ways in which the life and record of the theologian put to death by the Nazis in the last month of the European War (1945) can […]
Left Behind or Left in Cyberspace?
*Sightings* 7/17/08 — Noreen Herzfeld As a teenager, when a friend first told me about the rapture, in which Christians will be miraculously transported to heaven while sinners remain on earth to suffer a variety of tribulations, I was quite sure that, sinner that I was, I was destined to be the one member of […]
Unreconstructed Liberalism?
By Harry T. Cook Isaiah 55: 1-5, 10-13 You and I are trapped at the circus. We cannot get out until after November 4. We are being bombarded on the left and on the right by competing visions of what our country is and ought to be, about what it should and should not do. […]
With All Your Mind
By Harry T. Cook Matthew 11: 25-30 For time out of mind Episcopalians heard the following words from page 68 of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer every Sunday: Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ saith: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart; and with all thy soul; and with all […]
The Heart of Anglicanism
Archbishop of Armagh – Address to the USPG Conference, Swanick Posted On : July 4, 2008 10:45 AM | Posted By : Admin ACO ACNS: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/7/4/ACNS4419 Archbishop of Armagh calls for a return to the heart of Anglicanism to resolve contemporary issues Transcript of Archbishop’s address: Holy Scripture and the Law of God in Contemporary […]
An Orthodox View of the Atonement
(A good article): ‘In Western theology, especially since Anselm, the juridical understanding of the atonement had been based on the idea of sin and evil as being primarily something that God punishes us *for* (Rodger 1989:28). In the Orthodox view, however, sin and evil are primarily something that God rescues us *from*. Salvation begins with […]
Public Theology
*Sightings* 7/3/08 A Public Theology or a Theology of the *Res Publica?* — Rick Elgendy Last week, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson took issue with a 2006 speech made by Senator Barack Obama at a meeting of “Call to Renewal,” a movement of politically activist Christians. A religious figure criticizing a presidential candidate is […]
Original Nonsense
Another provocative comment from my liberal Episcopalian friend… I don’t much like the doctrine of original sin either, but would object to it on other grounds: it’s not biblical (‘universality’ of sin is, however). Rowland. See http://jmm.org.au/catalog/keyword/o-4.htm for more on original sin, from several perspectives. ***** By Harry T. Cook Maybe it’s not all that […]
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