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Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Second Sunday of Christmas Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Second Sunday of Christmas Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Christmas Jeremiah 31.7–14 Ephesians 1.3–14 John 1.1–18 At the heart of the Christian proclamation of God is the belief that before time, before creation, before the existence of anything but God, God is already love. God’s very nature is the love that flows …
the historical character of Jesus - 9b The plurality of the canonical Jesus
the historical character of Jesus - 9b The plurality of the canonical Jesus
by SPCK - David Allen
The plurality of the canonical Jesus As a minimum, our analysis has revealed the diversity of the images of Jesus located under the canonical umbrella, the way in which his identity is named and expressed in a variety of fashions…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 12 Nourishment
The Monastery Of The Heart - 12 Nourishment
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Nourishment “Nothing is so inconsistent with the life of the monastic as overindulgence.” The seeker’s ideal is to be “in the world but not of it”- to be like everyone else but different where it counts. For those who seek to define this other quality of life by membership in a M…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 8 Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Proper 8 Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A Ordinary Time Proper 8 Genesis 22.1–14 Romans 6.12–23 Matthew 10.40–42 Perhaps precisely because it is one of the darkest of all Bible stories, the tale of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah has left deep imprints in Judaism and Christianity. Chil…
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Righteousness, morality and judgement
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Righteousness, morality and judgement
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Righteousness, morality and judgement Matthew’s Teacher is concerned about moral teaching; one of his key words (occurring seven times in Matthew, once in Luke, and never in Mark) is dikaiosune, justice or righteousness, with its adjective dikaios (fifteen times in Matthew; once …
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3b Jesus as a landless prophet and the situation of Palestine today
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 3b Jesus as a landless prophet and the situation of Palestine today
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Jesus as a landless prophet and the situation of Palestine today What were the issues for Jesus and the community for which Luke wrote regarding justice for the earth? Even though this was a community treading lightly on the earth compared with ourselves, ecological justice was f…
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