Theology
The Jesus Seminar
The first and best-known project of Westar Institute is the Jesus Seminar. Launched in 1985, the Seminar was organized to discover and report a scholarly consensus on the historical authenticity of the sayings and events attributed to Jesus in the gospels. A third phase of the Jesus Seminar resulted in profiles of Jesus drawn by […]
Richard Rohr (again)
Richard Rohr: As far as I’m concerned, secularism is a child of Christianity. The incarnation, which is our great trumpcard, that God entered the material world and took on the form of the human. That sets the stage for what we now call secularism. Stephen Crittenden: The implication being that the material world is good. […]
Apocalyptic
The trouble is, we don’t use apocalyptic literature in the way Paul’s hearers were used to, so we hear it in a vacuum that they wouldn’t have. To imagine how the recipients of Paul’s letter would have heard apocalyptic material, we have to do a fair bit of work on getting familiar with the nature […]
Nonviolence and the Christian Faith
My Core Convictions: Contents Part I: First Principles — Theses presented in paragraph format: 1 Evangelical Anthropology as a Necessary Complement to Theology; 2 God is Love; 3 Mimetic Desire and the Two Ways: Love or Resentment; 4 Falling into the Way of Satan; 5 Satan Casting out Satan and Apocalypse (5.4); 6 The Biblical […]
Incarnation and the Cross (Richard Rohr)
One pastor-friend wrote: I haven’t thought about it entirely well yet, but I’m not convinced that [Richard Rohr’s view] the incarnation is our great trump card. As central as it is, I can’t help thinking that the cross itself (and resurrection) is our trump card. Nathan: I had a somewhat similar suspicion about Richard Rohr, […]
Who Do You Say That I Am?
JESUS OF NAZARETH AND THE LIBERAL CHURCH Who Do You Say That I Am? December 16, 2001 the Rev. James Gertmenian Text: Mark 8:27-38 To speak of Jesus, known as the Christ, and to ask who he really was, is to take the first step down a well-trod and very long path, knowing fully that […]
Ecumenical Christian Creeds
Dennis Bratcher, ed. The first creeds of the Christian Church are called ecumenical creeds because they were decided upon in church councils that represented the entire church at the time before the church permanently spilt into Eastern (Orthodox) and Western (Roman) factions in AD 1054. Later creeds reflect the diversity of the Christian tradition and […]
Eschatology (Tom Wright)
Netfriend: 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 […]
Episcopal Diocese Votes to Secede From Church
New York Times 4th December 2006 An Episcopal diocese in California overwhelmingly passed a series of resolutions yesterday that position it to secede from the Episcopal Church and affiliate with conservatives in the global Anglican Communion. If the Diocese of San Joaquin affirms the move in a second vote next year, the small diocese, with […]
Doubts about Doubt: Honest to God Forty Years On
Doubts about Doubt: Honest to God Forty Years On* (Originally published in Journal of Anglican Studies, 2005, 3 (2), 181–96. Original pagination is retained in bold italicized numbers. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N.T. Wright ABSTRACT Honest to God, published in 1963, was one of the most public religious bestsellers of the twentieth century. […]
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