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The History of Christian Thought
The History of Christian Thought , by Jonathan Hill (Lion Publishing, Oxford, UK). ISBN 0-7459 5093-0. P/b 352pp, £9.99. Whatever the state of play in the secularisation versus desecularisation argument (and there is plenty of evidence for both trends these days), it cannot be denied that religion is a topic of increasing interest in the […]
The Two Eagons
Sightings 3/15/07 — Jeremy Biles We’ve all seen reports of religious likenesses cropping up in unexpected places: the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich or Ganesha’s form manifested in a suggestively lumpy potato. Some of these images are revered as holy manifestations; others fetch hefty sums on eBay. However risible such phenomena are — […]
Getting Religion Wrong
Sightings 3/12/07 Getting Religion Wrong — Martin E. Marty In 1970, as remembered in a story I’ve (too?) often told, for my sins I became associate dean at a Divinity School. Dean Joseph Kitagawa, scholar supreme and human being to match, did not like to raise money — so he equipped me with a tin […]
Conversations with Camus
by Howard Mumma Howard Mumma is the author of Albert Camus and the Minister Adapted from Albert Camus and the Minister, published by Paraclete Press. Reprinted in The Christian Century by arrangement with the author and publisher. This article appeared in The Christian Century, June 7-14 pp. 644-647. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used […]
How I’ve Changed My Mind
HOW I’VE CHANGED MY MIND Here’s an expanded version of a talk I gave to our small group. It’s a meandering chat, I haven’t put much order into it, and it’s a summary of just one of six pages of notes. People – including Yours Truly – do not change their minds simply because a […]
Diarmuid O’Murchu: Quantum Theology
Diarmuid O’Murchu: Quantum Theology: the Spiritual Implications of the New Physics. (Some rough notes) ’If there is enough matter in the universe gravity will stop this present expansion process and the universe will start contracting and will end up in a Big Crunch – a death by fire (heat death)… If there is not enough […]
Rene Descartes
Do you know that Western Cartesian philosophy was started by a Christian? Read the following from Rene Descartes – “Meditations on First Philosophy” (1641) ****************** To the Most Wise and Illustrious Men: The Dean and Doctors Of the Sacred Faculty of Theology in Paris. The motive which induces me to present to you this Treatise […]
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane… (Jan and I watched this classic American movie the other night… Here’s the plot, but the deeper question might be: ‘What does it all say about modern Western values?’) ~~~ Plot Overview Citizen Kane opens with the camera panning across a spooky, seemingly deserted estate in Florida called Xanadu. The camera lingers on […]
Recommended Books
From a Lutheran pastor who converted to Catholicism, responding to http://jmm.org.au/articles/8073.htm: Theology: This isn’t just because he is now Pope, but Ratzinger has to get a guernsey there somewhere. His classic was written in 1968 called “Introduction to Christianity”. I have been reading it now for almost a year. You have to take it in […]
50 Books that Church Leaders Should Read
50 Books that Church Leaders Should Read (January 2007) ¨ Listed in alphabetical order by author, not priority! ¨ Apologies to several quality authors who probably should be in this list but either I haven’t read their work or I forgot it when it came to writing this list ¨ I have resisted the urge […]
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