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Religion
From a friend: I’ve just been reading an interesting philosophy argument in the Mensa mag, wherein the author argues that religion was created not only to answer “why am I here?” and “who am I?” but also “how do I control things weaker than myself and propitiate things stronger?”, so that an inherent part of […]
The Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (Hans Kung)
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth Hans Kung April 26, 2008 A KEY ethical question for US President George Bush’s successor is: should a president lie? In some circumstances, must he lie? Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has no difficulty in justifying lies. Kissinger believes that the state, and […]
Morality and Organized Religion
Secular: Concerning the Here and Now By Harry T. Cook The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rome (Italy) — known as the pope — came to America a week ago and said, among other things, that being “secular” is bad for us. He’s worried, he says, about the separation of “faith from life […]
Evangelicals in Today’s U. S.
Evangelicals in Today ¢â‚¬â„¢s US. Evangelicals in Today’s U. S. Today ¢â‚¬â„¢s Evangelicals are as concerned with ecology and human rights as with personal morality Bernice Martin As the second Iraq War turned from a quick liberation into a bloodily contested occupation, long-standing liberal fears about the supposed theocratic ambitions of a reactionary American Evangelicalism were supplemented […]
A Modern Confession of Faith
“We believe in God, who made the world, loves it and smiles upon it. We believe in Jesus Christ, who has shown us the human face of God, and a love that refused to be limited, who calls us to a life that even death cannot end. We believe in the Holy Spirit through whom […]
Heresies
A Miscellany of Heresy By Jed Perkins. This is a list of heresies condemned by the Church in the Nicene Creed. Heresy comes from the Greek word for ‘choose’. In Christendom we are not to choose but rather ‘trust and obey’. Adoptionism – the view that Christ was a mere man upon whom God’s spirit […]
A Wesleyan Perspective on Human Sexuality
As I said earlier, there is some latitude in what it means to have a “Wesleyan” perspective. No one is likely to follow Wesley in everything he said. I’m quite willing to settle for a rather open & relaxed characterization of Wesleyan theology: it is a theology that takes its cues from the teaching and […]
Hospitality and tolerance
The Church is not called to tolerance, but to hospitality. Mere tolerance is far too gutless. Jesus did not model or advocate tolerance of the strangers and outcasts. He welcomed them, accepted them, stood in solidarity with them. In a few cases we also have stories of him openly challenging them to change, but it […]
Things Hidden: Scripture As Spirituality (Richard Rohr)
THINGS HIDDEN: Scripture as Spirituality, Richard Rohr (2008). Here ¢â‚¬â„¢s another book I wish I ¢â‚¬â„¢d written. Franciscan prophet and teacher Richard Rohr is a mystic rather than a systematic theologian: indeed he believes ¢â‚¬Ëœsystematizing ¢â‚¬â„¢ theology runs the risk of doing it violence and missing the point: theology is to be experienced in a life of faith, […]
Thinking Resurrection
Thinking Resurrection. April 9, 2008 Gerhard Manley Hopkins has a poem in which he inserts the prayer, ¢â‚¬ËœEaster in us. ¢â‚¬â„¢ He uses the noun Easter as a verb. ¢â‚¬ËœEaster in us. ¢â‚¬â„¢ Let Easter get in to us, come where we live, permeate our souls. Which sounds not only grammatically, but also theologically strange. But perhaps […]
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