Theology
Is God listening to this man?
Chaim Potok wrote in ‘The Book of Lights’ about two American rabbis, both army chaplains, in Japan during the Korean War. They passed a Japanese man praying devoutly beside the roadside shrine. One rabbi said to the other, ‘Do you think our God is listening to this man?’ He went on, ‘If our God is […]
Questions about healing
A friend wrote: My wife has cancer. Is anointing with oil and praying to heal someone valid today (James 5:14-15)? My response: Yes… Friend: Assuming it is valid should she stop chemo treatments and rely on the elders anointing her with oil and praying for healing? Me: No… God uses many means to heal… the […]
God and Caesar (N T Wright)
GOD AND SECULAR SOCIETY God and Caesar: the Bible, Postmodernity and the new imperialism N.T.Wright St Mark’s Review 2006 (2) No. 201 pages 3-13 N T Wright gave this address (here in summary form) at St Mark’s National Theological Centre in 2006. The theme of this paper is the confrontation between the power of God […]
Christian Neo-Fundamentalism
Christian Neo-Fundamentalism | Theology By Thomas Scarborough The Christian fundamentalist has been defined negatively as “a militantly anti-modernist evangelical” (Ferguson & Wright 2005:266), and positively as one who has “a firm commitment to certain ‘fundamentals’ of the Christian faith” (Grenz, Guretzki & Nordling 1999:54). Usually Christian fundamentalism is understood as referring to the type of […]
The End of Limbo
Sightings 4/30/07 — Martin E. Marty On October 29, 1965, four high hierarchs proposed to their Second Vatican Council colleagues that they might put on the agenda a discussion of the possibility that they should rethink the Catholic Church’s position on birth control. That evening, Albert C. Outler, our profoundly informed fly on the wall […]
Cynical Apologetics
From a cynical friend: How to be a Bible Apologist Step One: Accept the divine, absolute, and literal truth of the Bible. Step Two: Redefine “literal” when needed. Step Three: Learn to believe two or more contradictory ideas simultaneously Heinlein said it so well: “Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion […]
J A T Robinson on ‘God’
(From my liberal Christian friend Mark): Paul Tillich describing God as the “Ground of all being”. This type of non-theistic God is outside of time and space and that which causes time and space to exist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following from John A T Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich, ‘Honest To God’ (SCM, London: 1963) ******************** For […]
Religion vs Spirituality
March 29, 2007 Goodbye Religion, Hello Spirituality Is there a place for the Christian ‘religion’ in the 21st Century? /Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones, two prominent voices in the Emergent conversation, have edited a new book called/ An Emergent Manifesto of Hope /(Baker, 2007). The dictionary defines the word manifesto as, “a public declaration of […]
The Victory
================================================= QUOTE OF THE WEEK ================================================= “I find this so unsavory … they’re going out and killing people around the world to spread democracy, and what are we spreading? A form of government based on how much money you can raise from rich people.” – Chris Matthews, host of Hardball with Chris Matthews, on the […]
Easter: Why did Jesus die?
Easter message: Christ did not die for sin http://tinyurl.com/3cg9cg By Jonathan Wynne-Jones., Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 11:25pm BST 31/03/2007 The Church’s traditional teaching of Christ’s crucifixion is “repulsive” and “insane”, a controversial cleric will claim on the BBC this week. The Very Rev Jeffrey John, who had to withdraw before taking up an appointment as […]
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