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Deep Church Rising - Introduction Part 2: Deep Church
Deep Church Rising - Introduction Part 2: Deep Church
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Introduction Part 2: Deep Church Deep Church Rising Recovering the Roots of Christian Orthodoxy On 8 February 1952, C. S. Lewis wrote a letter to the Church Times defending the supernatural basis of the gospel, which he strongly felt was being undermined by modernism…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 5 Knowledge: Problems and Varieties
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 5 Knowledge: Problems and Varieties
by SPCK - N T Wright
Knowledge: Problems and Varieties We have seen that the study of the New Testament involves three disciplines in particular: literature, history and theology. They are, as it were, among the armies that use the New Testament as a battleground…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 20 From Event to Meaning
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 20 From Event to Meaning
by SPCK - N T Wright
From Event to Meaning (i) Event and Intention History, then, is real knowledge, of a particular sort. It is arrived at, like all knowledge, by the spiral of epistemology, in which the story-telling human community launches enquiries, forms provisional judgments about which storie…
the historical character of Jesus - 9 Conclusion: the canonical Jesus
the historical character of Jesus - 9 Conclusion: the canonical Jesus
by SPCK - David Allen
Conclusion: the canonical Jesus In the previous seven chapters, we have focused on the various constituent texts of the New Testament, specifically the non- Gospel material, in an attempt to consider how each text, or group of texts, goes about presenting the figure of Jesus of N…
Great Christian Thinkers - Publisher's Foreword
Great Christian Thinkers - Publisher's Foreword
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD It is a matter of particular pride at Fortress Press that we offer this compilation of brief portraits composed and presented by Pope Benedict XVI on key figures from Christian history… Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI
Mere Apologetics - 2b Apologetics and Postmodernity
Mere Apologetics - 2b Apologetics and Postmodernity
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Apologetics and Postmodernity So what are the core themes of this “postmodernism” of which we are speaking? It has become something of a sacred tradition to begin any reflections on how the church should live and witness in postmodernity with a detailed account of scholarly refle…
Lectio Divina - Challenges during lectio divina
Lectio Divina - Challenges during lectio divina
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Challenges during lectio divina There is no doubt that this primacy of holiness and prayer is inconceivable without a renewed listening to the word of God . . . It is especially necessary that listening to the word of God should become a life-giving encounter, in the ancient and …
Woman tourist sitting on bench with stone statue of man reading
Woman tourist sitting on bench with stone statue of man reading
by Mark Boulton
Woman tourist sitting on bench with stone statue of man reading newsapaper in township of Katikati Bay of Plenty New Zealand. Collapse of the kiwifruit trade in the early 1980s caused an economic decline in the community and a group of residents got together to produce giant mura…
Times and Seasons - Wiping out the past
Times and Seasons - Wiping out the past
by Marjorie Dobson
Wiping out the past Wiping out the past is not an option. History has happened. Regrets alone will not scour the pages clean. The facts are known. Embroidered by memory, or malice, but their significance is plain. Mistakes are made and crimes committed. Errors of judgement cause …
The Power of the Parable - Epilogue
The Power of the Parable - Epilogue
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
EPILOGUE History and Parable The Power of the Parables HOW FICTION BY JESUS BECAME FICTION ABOUT JESUS This epilogue has two sections. The first section is a summation of what I have proposed in this book about the parabling of Jesus. The second section raises two new and conclud…
Poem: Durham cathedral
Poem: Durham cathedral
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Durham cathedral Twin towers stand high and proud over trees and river. Captured in paint and picture, the image unmistakeable. Draw closer. Climb steep streets, turn a corner to the Green. feel the weight and power of this building daring all-comers to challenge its author…
Nothing Too Religious - God said ...
Nothing Too Religious - God said ...
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/monologue: God said… Look at it this way, said God, whether I created the universe in six days, or six billion years, there was no one else around to see, so there are none of those historical records that people seem to need to give clear evidence of how it all happened. Ge…
eyefilm
eyefilm
by joel toombs
Could be used as a logo for an event... or as a background or logo for a talk. Examples of themes it could illustrate are such as God's plan through history or the things God looks at/for - his omnipresence - or certain aspects of the father's view of the crucifixion/Jesus' life.…
Isaiah for Everyone - A Day When There Will Be a Song to Sing