Theology
Seventh-day Adventists
They’re known for their hospitals and health food, but the Seventh-day Adventists began as part of the 19th Century Revival in the ‘burnt over’ district of the Northeastern United States. This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional […]
Heaven and Hell
A well-traveled illustration: A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, “Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.” The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the […]
Karl Barth: the word in this world
Karl Barth, The Word in This World: Two Sermons by Karl Barth, ed. Kurt I. Johanson, trans. Christopher Asprey (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2007), 66 pp. With an introduction by William H. Willimon. In this splendid little booklet, two remarkable sermons by Karl Barth appear in English for the first time. The juxtaposition of these […]
The New Lion Handbook – Christian Belief
(General Editor: Alister McGrath, First hardback edition 2006; flexiback 2007) Here’s an excellent 350 page introduction to classic Christian thinking/doctrine. It begins with a seven-page overview of Christian Church History (try doing that sometime!). Then we explore faith, including an introduction to the creeds, faith and philosophy, religious language, can God’s existence be proved?, the […]
The Language of God
In my early teens I became a committed Christian. At twenty-two, after years of intensive university study, I became a practising scientist with a great deal still to learn. In the course of my university studies I had read Geology for a year and that confirmed my sneaking feeling that the first chapter of Genesis […]
Resurrecting Jesus (Dale Allison)
Three good Amazon.com reviews – of a book recommended by a friend who is a NT professor… Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition And Its Interpreters (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement) (Paperback) by Dale C., Jr. Allison (Author) Truly risen?, January 12, 2007 By J. D. Walters “koshte” (Princeton, NJ) The problem […]
New Testament Ethics
A friend who is a NT professor recommended this book on Christian ethics. Here are some of the highest-ranking Amazon.com reviews. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics (Paperback) by Richard B. Hays (Author) THE Book on New Testament Ethics, August 8, 2005 By […]
Creeds
Oct. 14, 2007 Anniversary Present By Harry T. Cook In this autumn season I am observing the 20th anniversary of becoming rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in the Detroit suburb of Clawson. About 15 of the past 20 years have been very happy. Parts of the other five were not all that happy because […]
Atonement
Jesus Christ as our way to God Our thoughts on United Methodist Believing continue with these thoughts about Jesus Christ as our way to God. The way Scripture tells the story (and nothing we know about Jesus would we know without Scripture – here is a story so wonderfully strange we could have never thought […]
Incarnation
United Methodists Worship the Incarnate Christ John Wesley often spoke of preaching as “offering Christ.” For Wesley, preaching was more than a string of interesting ideas, even interesting ideas about Christ; it was experience of and engagement with Christ as a living, relational being. With other Christians we join in basing all that we say […]
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