Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Deep Church Rising - 9 (part 2) Real Life-Giving Presence
Deep Church Rising - 9 (part 2) Real Life-Giving Presence
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Real Life-Giving Presence The importance of real presence is that the meal itself, according to the tradition, is a means by which we participate in the eternal life in Christ- “Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life” (John 6:54)…
Deep Church Rising - 6 (part 2) Ortho-Doxia is Gospel-Shaped
Deep Church Rising - 6 (part 2) Ortho-Doxia is Gospel-Shaped
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Ortho-Doxia is Gospel-Shaped Christians are gospel people and the gospel story determines the shape of Christian worship. Indeed, the key criterion of whether worship is Christian is whether it is Christ- centered…
Deep Church Rising - 5 (part 3) Why It Matters 1 – Resurrection: A Case Study
Deep Church Rising - 5 (part 3) Why It Matters 1 – Resurrection: A Case Study
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Why It Matters 1 – Resurrection: A Case Study Let’s take a case study of how the pressures of modernity pose a challenge to orthodox faith. Christians confess of Jesus that “on the third day he was raised from the dead,” and of themselves a hope for “the resurrection of the dead…
Deep Church Rising - 5 (part 2) In Defense of the Creed
Deep Church Rising - 5 (part 2) In Defense of the Creed
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
In Defense of the Creed Creeds often take a fair amount of flack. In the minds of many people they are lifeless sets of “things to believe” that substitute for authentic heart-felt faith; they epitomize outward “religion” obsessed with form and ritual, as opposed to inward devoti…
Deep Church Rising - 5 Deep Faith
Deep Church Rising - 5 Deep Faith
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Deep Faith Orthodoxia as Right Believing The community of Christ-followers has always been a very diverse faith community. From the very first those who confessed Jesus as Messiah and Lord worked out this confession in diverse local contexts with diverse theological emphases and …
Deep Church Rising - 4 Deep Calls to Deep
Deep Church Rising - 4 Deep Calls to Deep
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Deep Calls to Deep In an important book on scriptural approaches to knowledge, Biblical Knowing, Dru Johnson points out that the meaning of things is not there on the surface of reality to read off, raw facts that simply are self-evident…
Deep Church Rising - Where Are We Now?
Deep Church Rising - Where Are We Now?
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Where Are We Now? Modernity simply refers to the modern era in Western cultures, from the sixteenth century onwards—a period of profound economic, technological, social, intellectual, and political change, as described above. Modernism, on the other hand, may best be thought of a…
Deep Church Rising - 3 (part 2) The Industrial Revolution
Deep Church Rising - 3 (part 2) The Industrial Revolution
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
The Industrial Revolution The Rise of Consumerism Modernity was born, and the ideas of the Enlightenment became the stuff of everyday life. In themselves the doctrines of the eighteenth-century philosophers carried conviction but lacked potency…
Deep Church Rising - 2 (part 2) The Scientific Revolution
Deep Church Rising - 2 (part 2) The Scientific Revolution
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
The Scientific Revolution Recovering the Roots of Christian Orthodoxy The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed significant changes in the way in which nature and humanity’s relation to it was rethought in dialogue with important scientific breakthroughs, associated with …
Deep Church Rising - 2: Modernity and Postmodernity
Deep Church Rising - 2: Modernity and Postmodernity
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
2 Modernity and Postmodernity The Rise of the Secular World Philosopher Charles Taylor put the question like this: “Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say, 1500 in our Western society, while in [the twenty-first century] many of us find this not only easy, …
Deep Church Rising - Introduction Part 2: Deep Church