Theology
What Happens When Babies Die? [2]
From Rowland: I got this email this morning (sometime May 2006): Hi! My name is _ _ _ _ and I am the youth leader at _ _ _ _ Baptist Church. On Sunday at Bible Study some of the girls asked “where do babies go when they die?” My belief has always been that […]
A Theology As Big As The City
A Theology As Big As The City | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough. Following his graduation from Moody Bible Institute, Ray Bakke found himself propelled from “rural Washington to inner-city Chicago”. This is a book in which he traces his journey, and combines his experience of the city — Chicago in particular — with […]
Francis A. Schaeffer on Reformation and Revival
http://www.angelfire.com/bc3/connections/Reformation/Reformation.htm We live in a post-Christian world. What should be our perspective as individuals, as institutions, as orthodox Christians, as those who claim to be Bible-believing? How should we look at this post-Christian world and function as Christians in it? The church in our generation needs reformation, revival, and constructive revolution. At times men think […]
Congregations as Theological Communities
World Evangelical Alliance Theological Commission Evangelical Review of Theology (2006) Vol 30, No 1, pages 4-12 ENABLING CONGREGATIONS TO BECOME THEOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES by Frank Rees Key-words: Adult Christian Education, social responsibility, worship, fellowship, community, priesthood of all believers, discipleship, narrative, contextualization Bio-Data: Frank Rees, TheolM, PhD (Manchester), is the Dean and Professor of Systematic Theology […]
Christians launch progressive network
Barney Zwartz June 6, 2006 A NEW network, aimed at promoting progressive thinking and acting as a counterweight to the growing influence of conservative evangelicals, has been launched by liberal Christians in Victoria. Former Catholic priest Michael Morwood told the 150 people who gathered to set up the Progressive Christian Network of Victoria that they […]
Violent faiths
May 25, 2006 5:11 PM http://www.aljazeerah.info/25%20o/Violence%20Islam%20and%20Christianity% 20By%20Habib%20Siddiqui.htm
Falwell: Jews can get to heaven
Jerusalem Post, Israel Feb. 28, 2006 Ilan Chaim http://www.jpost.com An evangelical pastor and an Orthodox rabbi, both from Texas, have apparently persuaded leading Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell that Jews can get to heaven without being converted to Christianity. Televangelist John Hagee and Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg, whose Cornerstone Church and Rodfei Sholom congregations are based in […]
Original Sin – an Orthodox View
The following is the text of the sermonette given by Fr. Stephen Fraser at the 26th Archdiocese Convention in 1971 in Boston, Mass. Fr. Stephen has just completed his theological studies at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and is the pastor of St. John of Damascus Church in Boston. God, in His infinite goodness and […]
Original Sin
Jews do not believe in original sin as the western church defines as the Orthodox Churches don’t: http://www.greatcom.org/resources/areadydefense/ch28/default.htm Judaism holds no concept of original sin. According to Christian belief, all human beings are born into the world with a sinful nature because of the transgression of Adam (Romans 5:12-21). Judaism’s emphasis is not on original […]
God’s Justice
(~) God’s Justice A Jewish Legend Else Schubert-Christaller Rabbi Joshua ben Levi was a just man, without fault. So when he prayed that he might see the prophet Elijah, God granted his request. Seeing the prophet appear before him, the rabbi spoke: “Allow me to accompany you on your wanderings, to see what it is […]
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