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THE HISTORICAL JESUS PUZZLE
William R. G. Loader In this paper I shall address three main questions: Why ask about the historical Jesus? What new data do we have to warrant more research? and What, if any, findings can we identify in current research? [1] 1. Why ask about the historical Jesus? The first is a serious question. Why […]
Would the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?
The visit of Bishop John Shelby Spong has once again prompted the average Australian to ask: “Who was Jesus?” and “Can we trust the Bible?” Paul Barnett, scholar and Anglican Bishop of North Sydney, clears away the doubts. Who’s Spong anyway? Bishop John Spong is Bishop of Newark in the Episcopal Church of the United […]
The Jesus Seminar
Are “The Jesus Seminar†criticisms of the gospels and Jesus Christ valid? Among those who work outside of the normal canons of historical research is “The Jesus Seminar,â€Â[1] a gathering of the skeptical-minded whose conclusions are published in The Five Gospels.[2] Instead of demonstrating historical objectivity, their enterprise is a stacked deck of hostile presuppositions. […]
FOR AND AGAINST FUNDAMENTALISM
By Michael Jensen ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 25 OCT 2010 FUNDAMENTALISM IS A MENTALITY TO BE AVOIDED IN WHATEVER GUISE, BUT ONE DOES NOT ESCHEW THE NAME “FUNDAMENTALIST” ON ACCOUNT OF WISHING TO LOOK RESPECTABLE. CREDIT: JENNIFER INGALL (ABC LOCAL RADIO). “Fundamentalism” is a disagreeable word, and someone who is a fundamentalist is usually […]
Google helps Dead Sea Scrolls enter internet age
21 October 2010 The images will be published online for free Sixty years after a shepherd happened upon the Dead Sea Scrolls, a plan aims to bring them into the internet age. Researchers at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), aided by scientists at Google, plan to image the 2,000-year old documents and publish them online. […]
When God said he loved all, he meant it
Bryan Patterson From: Sunday Herald Sun October 17, 2010 AMERICAN comic Lynn Lavner once observed that the Bible contained six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. “That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals,” she said. “It’s just that they need more supervision.” So where does religious homophobia spring from? Why do some […]
Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada
We are not alone, we live in God’s world. We believe in God: who has created and is creating , who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit. We trust in God. We are called to be the church: to […]
Schleiermacher Reconsidered
by Rev. Prof. John Macquarrie (Expository Times, April 1969, pp. 196 ff.) Full article available here – http://ext.sagepub.com/content/80/7/196.extract Excerpts: Schleiermacher’s thesis: Faith is the attitude of the whole person, not merely an assent of the mind. Schleiermacher’s successor – Rudolf Otto, who credits Schleiermacher with nothing less than the ‘rediscovery of religion’, while his own […]
‘Evangelical Right’: what about divorce?
Divorce  The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience Evangelical Christians are gravely concerned about the family, and this is good and necessary. But our credibility on the issue of marriage is significantly discounted by our acceptance of divorce. To our shame, the culture war is not the only place that an honest confrontation with the […]
EVANGELICALS AND SCIENCE
iMonk Classic: Niki Made Her Choice and, Apparently, So Did We October 9, 2010 by Chaplain Mike Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer Originally posted Oct 4, 2009 A year ago, this Michael Spencer piece really got people talking. FIRST: Read “Evangelicals and Science†at Tim Stafford’s blog. SECOND: Niki is fictionalized, but not much. […]
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