Theology
The Rapture Theory
The Rapture Theory: Its Surprising Origin by Ernest L. Martin, Ph.D., 1976 (Wikipedia tells us Ernest Martin was associated with Herbert W. Armstrong, and taught at his Pasadena campus. The following article is published here for interest. I wouldn’t go along with some of its terminology/presuppositions. A friend sent this article, probably in response to […]
Conservative Christians and Muslims
A netfriend: I think that the evidence for a biological cause of homosexuality is now so strong that it is impossible to ignore, but I am sure they will. A few years ago, it was the abortionists who were the main target of the religious right. What caused that to change, and why? The one […]
Dogma is the danger
a.. 28 October 2006 From New Scientist Print Edition. Was it by divine coincidence that Mary Midgley’s article (7 October, p 50) appeared in the same edition of New Scientist as the cover story on confabulation? Midgley is right to say it is not irrational to use imaginative structures as a necessary preparation for reasoning, […]
The Atonement
Who tells the best atonement story? Scot McKnight A series of theologians have read the Bible and done their best to reduce this bigness down to a single story. But, that story is too grand to be reduced to a single story. In fact, the various stories are each needed, not only because each tells […]
Spong on Advent
Note: as you’ll note from other articles by/about Spong on this website, his views and mine do not always coincide! Rowland. ~~~ “During the Advent, Christmas and Epiphany seasons a form of worship known as “The Festival of Lessons and Carols” usually finds its way into the liturgies of our various churches. There are many […]
Fundamentalism
I have suggested that Fundamentalism is demonic. …Tillich (one of the theological triumvirate of the twentieth century) makes the same allegation on the first page of his magnum opus … Fundamentalists “confuse eternal truth with a temporal expression of the truth. … the theological truth of yesterday is defended as an unchangeable message against the […]
Sydney Anglicans speak on women’s ordination
ACNS 4206 | AUSTRALIA | 25 OCTOBER 2006 Sydney speaks on women’s ordination Sydney Synod has spoken decisively on ordaining women as priests, with a clear majority of members voting to move forward and not revisit the debate. In a secret ballot last night after an hour of speeches, approximately 70 per cent of lay […]
The Authority of the Bible (N T Wright)
Previous Biblical Authority and the Church’s TaskThe Challenge to the world’s authority structures and concepts The church is not made so that there can be a safe ghetto into which people can run and escape from the world, but so that God can shine out his light into the world, exposing (among other things) the […]
The Authority of the Bible (N T Wright)
HOW CAN THE BIBLE BE AUTHORITATIVE?N T WRIGHTThe Laing Lecture 1989, and the Griffith Thomas Lecture 1989.I am very grateful for the invitation to give this particular lecture, I should perhaps say that my reflections here arise not so much from reading lots of books about the authority of the Bible-though I have read some […]
Full Gospel, Fractured Minds?
A review of Full Gospel, Fractured Minds? By Rick Nanez. Zondervan, 2005. It is no secret that there has been a strong tendency in Pentecostal/Charismatic circles to downplay the use of the mind, the intellect, reason, theology and doctrine. Some even relish in bashing theology and the intellect. This of course is not always the […]
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