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From Jesus to Christianity
Book Review: From Jesus to Christianity (HarperSanFrancisco, 2004) English-speaking New Testament scholars perhaps belong to one of three categories: Fundamentalist/Conservative; ‘Mainstream’; and ‘Liberal/Radical’. One way an amateur can test a scholar’s presuppositions is in terms of their treatment of so-called/alleged discrepancies within or between NT documents. Conservatives try to reconcile/’explain’ them, to avoid the cognitive […]
Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice, by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William S. Snyder. Communities of practice have existed for millennia. These are groups of people who deepen their knowledge and expertise in a particular area through ongoing personal interaction. In recent decades, such groups have seen a renaissance as the so-called information society, or “new economy”, […]
Harry Potter and the Occult
A thoughtful friend wrote: I read your article with interest. However I didn’t see any mention of Daniel who certainly was a Magician. Not a Magician in the new age pagan Wicca sense, but a Theurgist. The word Occult means hidden, it is not a word that means black magic . Many young people disillusioned […]
Who Wrote the Bible?
Bible is ‘lies and spin,’ says C4 ‘Sensationalist’ film sparks anger among church groups Jamie Doward, religious affairs correspondent Sunday December 19, 2004 The Observer It’s the season for Channel 4 to cause controversy. Each year the channel strives to whip up a furore surrounding its programming on Christmas Day. If it is not trying […]
Living Faith Day by Day
Living Faith Day By Day, by Debra K. Farrington. Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough. Debra Farrington, in her book Living Faith Day By Day, briefly surveys the history of monasticism, then describes monastic traditions from which we may derive spiritual benefit today. The book selects from the monastic traditions specific aspects of monastic life, which the […]
Christian Art
From Mark Tindall: Copying the art of outsiders and turning it into Christianised kitsch is not the way to go. So few are encouraging Christian artists to express their whole life in the whole body of their art work. “Christian artist” usually conjures up visions of propganda and kitsch rather than cutting edge art. Compare […]
Australia’s Favourite Books
Tolkien has us spellbound By Jason Steger December 6, 2004 When the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was published 50 years ago, 3000 copies were printed. Since then millions have relished the epic adventures of Frodo Baggins and friends on their journey across Middle-earth to thwart the dark lord Sauron. […]
Jesus and the Fundamentalists of His Day
Jesus and the Fundamentalists of His Day: the Gospels, the Bible, and Jesus, by William Loader, Melbourne: Uniting Education, 1998. The contention of this book is that religionists in Jesus’ day who ordered their lives by a strict observance of the law, and were prone to put those laws above people, were therefore ‘to be […]
A Christian View of Aesthetics and Art
Beauty and the Beholder: 1.. Does God care about beauty, and should we? 1.. God’s concern for beauty. Psalm 27:4, Genesis 1:31, Genesis 2:9 2.. Our nature. Gen. 1:27 3.. Psalm 16:11 4.. 1 Timothy 4:1-5, 6:17 2.. Is beauty purely subjective? 1.. What is the standard for beauty? 2.. Why do we disagree over […]
Contemporary Culture
Encounters Probing the Lines of Contact and Conflict with our Contemporary Culture An Adult class taught by Asst Pastor Barry McWilliams in the Spring of 1998 at Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Lake Stevens, Wa. A survey of the adult class at Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church indicated a strong interest in a course relating to contemporary […]
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