Theology
Rossing’s Rapture
Sightings 7/4/05 Rossing’s Rapture — Martin E. Marty When I use the word “literally,” I mean “literally” — not metaphorically, as in “it was literally raining cats and dogs.” Literally, one or two-score pages of the newspapers that came my way last week bannered the place of religion in American life — particularly in US […]
The Athanasian Creed
This creed is named after Athanasius (293-373 A.D.), the champion of orthodoxy over against Arian attacks on the doctrine of the Trinity. The Athanasian Creed (1) Whoever desires to be saved must above all things hold to the catholic faith. (2) Unless a man keeps it in its entirety inviolate, he will assuredly perish eternally. […]
Mystery Religions
From the book, ‘The Da Vinci Hoax – Exposing the Errors of the Da Vinci Code’ by Carl E. Olson and Sandra Miesel 2004 Ignatius Press, pages 145-146. Any spelling mistakes are probably mine, the {} represents footnotes and the numbers in () are page numbers from the book ‘The Da Vinci Code’. Unfortunately for […]
Pagans
From a friend: Compass has a series on pagans that has been good viewing http://www.abc.net.au/compass/ Pagans Pt 1 – Sexy Beasts June 12 For 2000 years the pagan ancestors of Northern Europe have had bad press – often portrayed as immoral, even animalistic. Richard Rudgley, UK anthropologist and Ethnologist, goes in search of the truth […]
The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity
The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough Jeffrey B ¼tz recently sent me an autographed copy of his new book, “The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity”. One tends to have misgivings about a book which claims to have recovered “lost teachings” of […]
Genesis creation
At the same time as we have been discussing Genesis on a.r.c there has been a debate on teh Sydney Morning Herald Webdiary on the topic “Did the universe and life evolve, or was it specially created in 6 days?” You can read the opening statements from both sides, with brief biographies of the participants, […]
Thoughts on the Papacy (Richard Rohr)
Thoughts on the Papacy – Container Versus Contents Richard Rohr, OFM April 22, 2005 The world’s response to the Papal events of the last month, either favorable or even antagonistic, made something very clear to me. There will always be a need for religion, and there is a large percentage of people who like religion. […]
Theologians offer response to Windsor Report request
Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Theologians offer response to Windsor Report request Paper cites 40-year consideration of same-gender relationships [ENS, Nottingham] — Answering a request of the Anglican Communion’s international Lambeth Commission, the Episcopal Church has today released a paper titled “To Set Our Hope on Christ: A Response to the Invitation of Windsor Report Paragraph […]
The Pre-Easter Jesus
The Pre-Easter Jesus There was to Jesus a spirit dimension, a wisdom dimension, and a political dimension -Marcus Borg Marcus Borg offers three summaries of the pre-Easter Jesus which: a.. Draw on cross-cultural study b.. Use typology of religious personality c.. Are different versions of the same understanding Summary in three strokes Jesus was: a.. […]
Mary
A wrote: I find all this attention to Mary rather amazing. B: responded: And rather Biblical….”from henceforth -all- generations shall call me blessed!”. I am sure that those who fulfill that injunction refer to St Mary as blessed. 🙂 Then C: The veneration of Mary was a way of incorporating the feminie side of God […]
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