Andrew:
Why did Jesus write on the ground?:
The story of the woman caught in adultery who is dragged by the scribes and Pharisees to Jesus for judgment (John 7:53-8:11) is a fascinating one, for various reasons. I made extensive use of it in a...
(10/08/2009 - 17:46 |
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Jacob:
In a World of Flux: Postmodern Agency and Doing the Christian Life:
Over at the Boundless webzine, J.P. Moreland recently argued that “free will” is incompatible with “postmodernism” and “naturalism.” [http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0002095.cfm]
In regards...
(07/08/2009 - 19:01 |
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Andrew:
What has the emerging church to do with the Alpha Course?:
I asked the question in a post about the future of the European church regarding the sustainability of the Holy Trinity Brompton model of church-planting: 'Will its Alpha course theology – a...
(07/08/2009 - 11:23 |
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Andrew:
John Piper and the imputation of a real moral righteousness:
Reading through John Piper’s response to N.T. Wright, The Future of Justification (see also Piper’s objections to Wright’s ‘good news’), and not having much of a...
(02/08/2009 - 14:10 |
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Andrew:
Martin Robinson on shifts in the European church:
Martin Robinson (National Director of Together in Mission) is sounding upbeat about the church in the UK
and Europe. In a short
video clip that can be found on the Roxburgh Missional
Network site, he...
(29/07/2009 - 13:09 |
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Araslyn:
A Happy Ending..........:
Yesterday, I locked my keys in the car. I was only 4 miles from home, but 4 miles may as well have been 40. I had to figure out how I was going to fix my stupidity. I couldn’t reach anyone by...
(25/07/2009 - 16:12 |
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Jacob:
Lone Survivors and the Weakness of God:
Recently, a Yemeni airliner crashed into the Indian Ocean. 152 people died; one girl survived unharmed. In war, I have heard of similar instances where one fighter survives while everyone else...
(25/07/2009 - 03:19 |
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Andrew:
The modern art of defacing the Bible:
The Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow is currently hosting an exhibition
called Made in God’s Image, in which the
artists Anthony Schrag and David Malone ‘have explored faith and...
(23/07/2009 - 13:36 |
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Andrew:
Piper’s objections to Wright’s ‘good news’:
One of the more peculiar objections that John Piper raises against Wright’s understanding of Paul’s ‘gospel’ is that the announcement that Jesus is Lord ‘is an...
(22/07/2009 - 13:39 |
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Andrew:
Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great:
I picked up Christopher Hitchens’ God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything at Schiphol Airport yesterday on my way back to London from the Hague. I’m four chapters in and so far...
(21/07/2009 - 16:22 |
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Jacob:
Wafergate: Or What It Means to Put Jesus In Your Pocket:
As quoted in the On Faith section of the Washington Post today:
“It began last Friday when Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper attended a Catholic funeral mass for a former...
(10/07/2009 - 15:40 |
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Andrew:
Sweet and Viola: A Jesus Manifesto:
Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola have recently issued A Magna Carta of Restoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ, a.k.a. A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century Church. They argue in the preamble that...
(24/06/2009 - 16:48 |
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Jacob:
The Quantity or Quality of Discipleship :
I was talking to my father in law (Director of Missions for a Southern Baptist Regional Association) awhile back about his missionary trip to Romania. He was excited to tell me how many baptisms...
(23/06/2009 - 18:16 |
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Andrew:
Church and state, God and Caesar, and MPs’ expenses:
I attended a Charities Parliament event last night – a panel-based discussion about the challenge of restoring trust in the British political process following the expenses scandal. The panel...
(23/06/2009 - 10:23 |
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peter wilkinson:
5. Isaiah, Matthew and a universal metanarrative:
The previous four posts have been exploring the influence of Isaiah within Matthew’s gospel, which is far more extensive than the direct quotations from Isaiah suggest, and amounts to something like...
(18/06/2009 - 15:07 |
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peter wilkinson:
4. The Isaianic template in Matthew's gospel - summarised:
This post provides an outline of the Isaianic template underlying Matthew’s gospel, as promised at the end of the previous post.
Isaiah draws attention to the significance of Abraham in Israel’s...
(17/06/2009 - 17:33 |
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peter wilkinson:
3. Isaiah and Matthew's gospel, Chapters 11-28:
This post continues to explore the underpinning of Matthew’s gospel by Isaiah from the previous post (2.), in Matthew 11 and beyond.
The woes pronounced on the unrepentant cities (Matthew 11:20-...
(17/06/2009 - 14:29 |
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peter wilkinson:
2. Isaiah and Matthew's gospel - Chapters 1-11:
There are at least ten direct references to Isaiah in Matthew’s gospel. By comparison, a glance at the footnotes in my NIV shows nine to Deuteronomy, four to Exodus, five to Leviticus, two to Genesis...
(15/06/2009 - 16:57 |
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peter wilkinson:
1. Isaiah, the gospels, Jesus and a universal metanarrative:
How far can the gospels be shown to present Jesus as the fulfilment of Isaianic prophecy? Most people know that Isaiah is quoted, and to some extent reflected (eg the suffering servant) in the...
(10/06/2009 - 20:10 |
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peter wilkinson:
Isaiah, the gospels, Jesus and a universal metanarrative:
(10/06/2009 - 20:09 |
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Jacob:
Why the Question of the "Reality" of Jesus' Resurrection Misses the Point:
Awhile back on his Beliefnet blog, Tony Jones posted a short essay called: “Why it Matters that Jesus REALLY Rose”. Contrasting his self to Marcus Borg who denies the reality of Jesus...
(06/06/2009 - 20:06 |
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Andrew:
Grace Davie on 'Is Europe's future Christian?':
The sociologist Grace Davie has written a response to the question ‘Is Europe’s future Christian?’ in the Comment is free: Belief section of guardian.co.uk. She argues rather...
(02/06/2009 - 10:29 |
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Andrew:
What evangelicals fight about: creation:
The second bone of contention in the much abused skeleton of Evangelical thought is creation. Dickinson and Buckeridge (for the background see What evangelicals fight about: atonement) list the...
(30/05/2009 - 15:06 |
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Virgil:
A Response to Andrew's Questions on Resurrection:
by Virgil Vaduva, Jack Scott and Jeremy Lile
A few days ago Andrew Perriman posted a sort of review and a
list of comments regarding Kevin Beck’s book titled This Book Will Change Your...
(29/05/2009 - 21:54 |
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Andrew:
What evangelicals fight about: atonement:
A recent edition of Christianity magazine (March 2009) ran an article by Ruth Dickinson and John Buckeridge on the current health of Evangelicalism in the UK. It captures a spectrum of opinions from...
(28/05/2009 - 19:28 |
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peter wilkinson:
Crossways - Journeyings into the Emergent, and The Sir Toby Chronicles:
Somewhat to my surprise, the two books I have compiled from posts to Open Source Theology are now being marketed through Amazon here. Will this be a breakthrough into the American market? Time will...
(27/05/2009 - 16:11 |
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christian4moses:
Natural selection and religion:
Dear all,
The following I posted on my blog and I am interested in your views.
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(21/05/2009 - 22:43 |
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Andrew:
Search Magazine article on open source religion:
I was interviewed a while back by Sam Kean for an article on open source religion for Search Magazine (‘a non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian magazine exploring the intersection of science...
(20/05/2009 - 13:23 |
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Jacob:
Without a Supernatural God, Is Anything Possible?:
Rod Dreher over at the Crunchy Con makes the well worn argument that without God anything is possible. As he puts it,
Who can say what is ultimately right, and what is ultimately wrong,...
(16/05/2009 - 00:21 |
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Desert Reign:
The relevance to us of the Acts church...:
But the relevance it has must be construed, in the first place, historically or narratively. We find this difficult because our modern minds are so accustomed to dealing with religious ideas on an...
(15/05/2009 - 11:11 |
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