Theology
Evangelicalism in Australia
Two Centuries of Evangelicalism In Australia By Dr Stuart Piggin, historian and author of several books including ‘Evangelical Christianity in Australia’ (OUP). The above reflections have been taken from the concluding chapter of that book with kind permission Throughout almost two hundred years the mission of Australian evangelical Christianity has been to preserve society by […]
The Deep Ecclesiology Of The Body
THE DEEP ECCLESIOLOGY OF THE BODY by Frank Viola My friends Andrew Jones and Brian McLaren have written about something they call “deep ecclesiology.” This phrase appears to be derived from Noam Chomsky’s linguistic theory of “deep semantics.” Chomsky said that underlying the “surface structures” of the statements we make there lies a deeper and […]
Universalism
From a netfriend: It is very intriguing to me that the vast majority of Christians accept the Nicene Creed, but do NOT accept universalism. Especially since Gregory Nazianzen was the Univeralist who oversaw the formulation of the Nicene Creed. Here is a very interesting e-book that is a reproduction of a book that was originaly […]
The Council of Nicaea and the Bible
The Council of Nicaea and the Bible There seem to be a number of legends about the First Council of Nicaea (325AD) in circulation on the internet, presented as fact. Some people seem to think that the council, which was the first council of all the Bishops of the Christian Church, either invented the New […]
Truth in the Fire: C.S. Lewis and Pursuit of Truth Today
July 21, 1998 Dallas A. Willard Lewis on Truth and Logic C. S. Lewis was devoted to the pursuit of truth, and was sure he had captured or been given a great deal of it. His confidence in this respect did not make him arrogant and close-minded, but was, to the contrary, the foundation of […]
Jesus’ Second Coming (Tom Wright)
It would seem that in your view, early Christians had the expectation for the Lord’s return in his generation and the expectation of the imminent coming of the Son of Man in judgment on Jerusalem. It would have been very difficult for the believers in the first century to distinguish these two expectations. On what […]
Government-Sponsored Ignorance
Jan. 21, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Dateline: Arizona. The National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior continues to offer for sale a book published by a creationist Christian ministry, which says the Grand Canyon was formed less than 6,000 years ago in a divine flood sent to wipe out the wickedness […]
Religion of mass distraction
Monday, January 22, 2007 The board chair of Sojourners/Call to Renewal on the religion of division I was recently interviewed by a “secular” journalist who had read some of my books. He said, “Your religion doesn’t seem to keep you constantly dividing the world into us and them, in and out, good and bad. Is […]
Open Letter to the Anglican Diocese of Sydney
I am writing to lay before you some deep concerns I have about the direction in which we appear to be going as a Diocese, to call for a change of heart, and to make some practical suggestions. The concerns are not only mine. They distil countless conversations I have had with many people right […]
Canon of the Scriptures – when?
Netfriend’s question: What are the dates that the contents of the Old Testament and the New Testament were finally agreed upon? Also the dates the first books were written? Another netfriend: Agreed upon by whom? 🙂 Seriously, you’ve just asked two questions that biblical scholars have been wrangling about for centuries. You might find the […]
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