Theology
Homosexuality & The Church: Some Liberal Views
HOMOSEXUALITY & THE CHURCH The most beautiful word in the Gospel of Jesus Christ is “whosoever” All of God’s promises are intended for every human being This includes gay men and lesbians. How tragic it is that the Christian Church has excluded and persecuted people who are homosexual! We are all created with powerful needs […]
Wright challenges conservatives, liberals
Bishop of Durham refuses to marry religious beliefs with political trends By Jim Naughton Washington Window Vol. 75, No. 7, June 2006 Bishop N.T. Wright spends a good deal of time explaining to admirers that they misunderstand him. To those impressed by his rigorous, evangelically-inclined biblical scholarship, he must explain that “conservative” convictions regarding the […]
Simplicity, Complexity and Homosexuality
At the risk of inflaming this discussion (which would only prove my original point anyway, that gut-level emotions have to be dealt with before there can be any sort of mature dialogue on this issue)… 1. Simplicity this side of complexity (eg. children, Pharisees ancient and modern). Caricatured summary: ‘The Bible is our only and […]
Judgment and damnation
Christopher D Marshall has written a fantastic book: “Beyond Retribution. A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment” Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2001). He says: “More worrisome is that the doctirine of final damnation could be taken to mean that the God we are to imitate is finally vindictive, not forgiving; that salvation is, ultimately, […]
Remembering the Sabbath
Sightings 8/14/06 — Martin E. Marty Sightings of religious issues in public life this week appeared along the highways and in the Jewish weekly The Forward (August 4). Columnist Jenna Weissman Joselit reminded readers that this is the fiftieth anniversary of the Interstate Highway System, a legacy of the Eisenhower era. As Joselit tells it, […]
The Council of Nicaea and the Bible
The Council of Nicaea and the Bible (Some excellent material from a netfriend, Roger Pearse): 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 […]
Unity, liberty, love
St. Augustine says: In necessariis unitas, In essentials unity, In dubiis libertas, In doubtful things liberty, In omnibus autem caritas, But in all things love.
On Acquisition of the Holy Spirit (Saint Seraphim)
Saint Seraphim of Sarov On Acquisitionof the Holy Spirit Introduction Saint Seraphim of Sarov was born in 1759, in city of Kursk. His parents were pious Orthodox Christians, examples of true spirituality. At the age of ten, Seraphim was miraculously healed from a serious illness by means of the Kursk icon of the Theotokos. As […]
Extra Ecclesiam
Sightings 8/7/06 — Martin E. Marty One week after I explained why Sightings does not always pick the “topic of the week” for comment, I find myself commenting on the “topic of last week,” Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic outburst. I’ll pass the whole controversy by except to lift out a sub-theme. From the Chicago Sun-Times “wires,” […]
Spong on the Atonement
The response Jack Spong made to a question that was put to him on atonement: [Name withheld], via the Internet writes: In your answer of May 10, 2006, you wrote, “I see Christianity at its heart as deeply humanistic. The core doctrines of the Christian faith suggest that God is revealed through a human life…so […]
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