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Why put our faith in transient things
Why put our faith in transient things
by Andrew Pratt
Why put our faith in transient things Why put our faith in transient things, satanic mills of industry, the wealth that we accumulate, or even churches' history? The rites that we revere and praise, the hymns we sing, the prayers we pray, the actions we see as divine were human …
Great God your love has held our lives
Great God your love has held our lives
by Andrew Pratt
Great God your love has held our lives through all the years down to this day. Your constant presence held us fast: remain with us we plead and pray. We've sen the ruins left by war, the tumbled buildings, street by street; some heard the voices that they loved and cried for thos…
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 - 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)…
Hymn: When Jesus came to Bethlehem there was no worse a day
Hymn: When Jesus came to Bethlehem there was no worse a day
by Andrew Pratt
When Jesus came to Bethlehem there was no worse a day, they say a census had been called, there was no place to stay; this baby who would shake the world, would first lay down his head, not in a royal house or hall, but in a manger bed. When Jesus went to Nazareth his father had …
Deep Church Rising - Introduction
Deep Church Rising - Introduction
by SPCK - Andrew Walker and Robin Parry
Introduction Recovering the Roots of Christian Orthodoxy Christianity is now on sale in multiform shapes and sizes. Competing in the open market with other religions, there is a bewildering yet broad choice of “real” and “best” Christianities for anyone who wants to buy…
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…
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 6 (part 2) Ortho-Doxia is Gospel-Shaped