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Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture From the Second to the Seventeenth Century
Scripture and the Authority of God - Scripture From the Second to the Seventeenth Century
by SPCK - N T Wright
Scripture from the Second to the Seventeenth Century Early Challenges (Marcion, the Gnostics, etc.) were Met with Response from Scripture, and (When Scripture Itself was Contested) with an Appeal to Early Tradition and Good Exegesis We must now compress a very long and complicate…
With My WholeHeart - Prelude to the Psalms
With My WholeHeart - Prelude to the Psalms
by SPCK - James Jones
Prelude to the Psalms On a certain Tuesday I was on my feet in the House of Lords asking a question about the future of the Community Justice Centre in Liverpool. As I sat down I could feel my heart pumping and a pain in my chest. On the Wednesday I was at the Heart and Chest Hos…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Word of God and Scripture in the Apostolic Church
Scripture and the Authority of God - Word of God and Scripture in the Apostolic Church
by SPCK - N T Wright
“Word of God” and Scripture in the Apostolic Church Apostolic Preaching of ‘the Word’: the Jesus-Story Fulfils the (OT) Scripture-Story The earliest apostolic preaching was neither a standard Jewish message with Jesus added on at the end, nor a free-standing announcement of a new…
Great Christian Thinkers - 55 Peter Lombard
Great Christian Thinkers - 55 Peter Lombard
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
Peter Lombard Peter Lombard, a theologian who lived in the twelfth century, enjoyed great fame because one of his works, titled the Sentences, was used as a theological manual for many centuries… Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI
Meditation on science vs scripture
Meditation on science vs scripture
by Jonathan Miller
Meditation on science vs scripture. Does one disprove the other? Exerpt.... Now we know that God did not hang a rainbow in the sky. Now know that God did not hang it in the sky, but split up light itself by shining it through raindrops and projects the rainbows colours on the ret…
Great Christian Thinkers - 36 Bede the Venerable
Great Christian Thinkers - 36 Bede the Venerable
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
Bede the Venerable The saint we are approaching now is called Bede and was born in the northeast of England; to be exact, Northumbria, in the year 672 or 673. He himself recounts that when he was seven years old his parents entrusted him to the abbot of the neighbouring Benedicti…
Lectio Divina - God's word and scripture
Lectio Divina - God's word and scripture
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
God’s Word and Scripture In the first two chapters of this book I offered some reflections in answer to the question, ‘Why spiritual exegesis?’ In the chapters to come, we will ask who should do lectio divina and look at how and where it is done. Before we turn to this topic, we …
Reflections on the Bible