Jacob:
Don Cuppitt and a Non-Realist Vision of God:
Don Cuppitt has been elaborating on a non-realist view of God for decades. While everyone may not agree with all that he says, the point is that he offers alternative possibilities to the...
(14/03/2009 - 16:24 |
0 comments |
5 stars)
Andrew:
Evangelism before and after Christendom:
Some quick thoughts on evangelism following a lively discussion at Community Church Harlesden…Evangelism has clearly become for many Christians a problematic and frankly anti-social requirement...
(11/03/2009 - 13:13 |
8 comments |
0 stars)
Andrew:
Ekklesia and the missional church:
Here’s another example (see also Review
of Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, ReJesus) of the
disconnection between great missional ideas and a coherent narrative theology.At the Christian...
(10/03/2009 - 17:00 |
1 comments |
5 stars)
peter wilkinson:
The Sir Toby Chronicles:
Every day a book review! This time, two books – a shorter companion volume to Crossways - Journeyings into the Emergent (see post below) completing the Sir Toby’s narratives introduced therein, and a...
(03/03/2009 - 17:34 |
27 comments |
0 stars)
Andrew:
Review of Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, ReJesus:
ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church, by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, is a call to a renewal of spirituality and discipleship centred on Jesus; it describes what that renewed...
(03/03/2009 - 14:06 |
0 comments |
4 stars)
Dan Steigerwald:
Creation care as a rule of life:
Andrew’s commentary on Lovelock’s upcoming book delves into an important question about the church’s response to this and other prognosticators who are forecasting gloom and doom scenarios....
(25/02/2009 - 17:26 |
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0 stars)
Andrew:
Who are 'the least of these'?:
One important point of biblical interpretation that came up during the course of a recent TREK gathering with the Christian Associates team in Gothenburg had to do with the meaning of Jesus’...
(23/02/2009 - 12:15 |
9 comments |
2.3 stars)
Duncan:
The harlot and the bride: the use of the marriage motif to portray God's covenant relationship with his people:
The picture of husband and wife is often used in the Old Testament to portray God’s covenant relationship with His people. God was the Husband, Israel His wife. Unfortunately God’s old covenant...
(23/02/2009 - 04:41 |
0 comments |
5 stars)
Andrew:
Global warming, storm warnings, and the future of the church:
James Lovelock argues in The Vanishing Face of Gaia - to be published in the UK on 26th February1 - that the earth is suffering from a terrible and probably incurable sickness caused by human...
(14/02/2009 - 13:19 |
6 comments |
0 stars)
CalvinDrake:
Rules of interpreting the Bible and the interpretation of the Epistles (using 2nd Timothy), Written By: Rev. Calvin Drake(Fell):
In order to fully understand the word of God (the bible) there are certain requirements that you must yield to: The spiritual requirements for a clear understanding of the word of God are as follows...
(10/02/2009 - 20:35 |
0 comments |
5 stars)
CalvinDrake:
A dove manifested in a spirit form at Jesus baptism Written By: Rev. Calvin Drake:
There do not seem to be a general accepted explanation for the use of the dove appearing and representing the Holy Spirit. We are dealing with a question of interpreting a symbol that is not...
(09/02/2009 - 21:32 |
0 comments |
5 stars)
Andrew:
Metavista: review and response:
Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination by Colin Greene and Martin Robinson is a bold attempt to stimulate ‘a movement for creative and radical cultural engagement,...
(03/02/2009 - 15:14 |
0 comments |
0 stars)
peter wilkinson:
Crossways - Journeyings into the Emergent with Open Source Theology:
In late 2007, Andrew published a book called ‘Otherways - in Search of an Emerging Theology’, which consists of OST posts (his own) between 2002 and 2007. ‘Crossways’ is a...
(30/01/2009 - 17:23 |
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0 stars)
disciplet:
The Life in Christ:
I am posting here a message that was originally posted to one of my friends message boards from myself. Pax Christi.
I would like to talk about something I don’t hear much about these days...
(27/01/2009 - 05:58 |
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0 stars)
peter wilkinson:
Contours of Pauline Theology - Tom Holland:
This study of the pervasive influence of the Passover on Pauline thinking and the corporate significance of the NT texts was first published in 2004. Dr Tom Holland of the Wales Evangelical School...
(23/01/2009 - 14:00 |
41 comments |
4 stars)
Virgil:
Jesus as the Tree of Life:
In the past I’ve had some exchanges here with Andrew and Peter (and maybe others) on the imminent realization of first-century church expectations, and as Andrew observed, that resulting eschatology...
(20/01/2009 - 18:07 |
2 comments |
5 stars)
Virgil:
Creating vs Consuming in the New Creation:
Andrew et al, I recently had some thoughts along the lines of the deep
and substantive creativity lacking within evangelical circles. In "The
Scandal of the
Evangelical Mind," Noll makes...
(17/01/2009 - 07:42 |
1 comments |
0 stars)
john13:
is jesus god?:
i am someone new to christianity. i read the doctrine of the trinity it states all the three persons in the trinity are the same,however after reading from the bible i found that there are numerous...
(15/01/2009 - 01:19 |
11 comments |
0 stars)
Kent Clark:
Temple Tax:
When Jesus cleared the temple was He commenting very directly on the injustice and unfair taxation still in place today? If the church supports this practice (injustice) does Jesus still have a...
(14/01/2009 - 21:25 |
3 comments |
0 stars)
Roderick:
Preterism and Emergent Eschatology:
Andrew Perriman was recently interviewed about his views on eschatology
("endtimes"). During the interview it became apparent that the
interviewer was constantly trying to associate...
(07/01/2009 - 08:16 |
8 comments |
5 stars)
shiert:
I have come not to bring peace, but a sword:
Jesus did not mean this ‘sword’ to be understood metaphorically.
Sorry, Andrew, but I can’t let this really silly statement slip by. Of course Jesus was speaking metaphorically. Is...
(01/01/2009 - 18:24 |
33 comments |
2 stars)
RUMINATE MAGAZINE:
RUMINATE: A Christian Literary Magazine:
RUMINATE is a quarterly
magazine of short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art
that resonate with the complexity and truth of the Christian faith.
Each issue is a themed forum for...
(29/12/2008 - 19:46 |
0 comments |
0 stars)
C. S. Cowles:
Canaanite Genocide and its Monstrous Concept of God:
I just read with interest and horror your attempt to sanitize the biblical account of the Conquest of Canaan under the rubric of "new creation." So what’s the difference in God...
(29/12/2008 - 10:29 |
61 comments |
3.7 stars)
shiert:
A new conversation on relationship:
Relational theology may fairly be called a “developing idea” as John Henry Newman might use that phrase.[1] A concerted and concentrated “research programme” on relational...
(28/12/2008 - 18:30 |
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0 stars)
Duncan:
New heaven and new earth on the ultimate day of the Lord:
Here is something else from my book (The Antichrist and the Second Coming). It continues the post that I put up earlier on the burning of the Land. As I see it, Revelation 21-22 is talking about...
(24/12/2008 - 01:52 |
12 comments |
5 stars)
Johannes de Silentio:
Son of Man is a title? (2):
Can we come at this from a slightly different angle? A more literary or canonical one, perhaps? Maybe it won’t help, but just writing it is helping me get it straight in my head, so here goes...
(22/12/2008 - 15:10 |
3 comments |
3 stars)
Andrew:
New look:
Open Source Theology has been given a new look, partly just to freshen things up, partly in an attempt to use space better. Of course, the task should have been outsourced to a competent web design...
(17/12/2008 - 10:43 |
0 comments |
0 stars)
Jacob:
Yoga: The bond between conservative evangelicals and conservative Muslims:
What do conservative evangelicals and conservative Muslims have in common?
Answer: Apart from Abraham, they both agree that yoga is bad for their followers to practice.
(12/12/2008 - 15:53 |
6 comments |
0 stars)
Andrew:
What would Jesus do to the planet?:
I followed a trail from Kurt’s user biography here on Open Source Theology to his blog to some reflections by John MacArthur on the ultimate futility of environmentalist activism:...
(11/12/2008 - 18:54 |
16 comments |
0 stars)
