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Mere Apologetics - 6b Clue 3: Order—The Structure of the Physical World
Mere Apologetics - 6b Clue 3: Order—The Structure of the Physical World
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Clue 3: Order—The Structure of the Physical World Our instinct to discern order within the world is expressed clearly in the wisdom literature of the Old Testament. The natural sciences are also based on the idea of the regularity of the universe. Without an ordered cosmos, the s…
Mere Apologetics - 6e Clue 7: Eternity— The Intuition of Hope
Mere Apologetics - 6e Clue 7: Eternity— The Intuition of Hope
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Clue 7: Eternity— The Intuition of Hope Some biblical passages are difficult to translate into English on account of the richness and complexity of the original Hebrew or Greek. As they say, things get lost in translation. The third chapter of Ecclesiastes takes the form of an ex…
Mere Apologetics - 6d Clue 6: Beauty—The Splendor of the Natural World
Mere Apologetics - 6d Clue 6: Beauty—The Splendor of the Natural World
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Clue 6: Beauty—The Splendor of the Natural World Many find themselves deeply moved by a scene of natural beauty— for example, a great mountain range, a glorious sunset, or wooded valleys. So how can we help someone move from a love of what God has created to a love of God the cre…
Mere Apologetics - 6c Clue 5: Desire— Homing Instinct for God
Mere Apologetics - 6c Clue 5: Desire— Homing Instinct for God
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Clue 5: Desire— Homing Instinct for God Many arguments for the existence of God involve an appeal primarily to reason. Others involve an appeal to experience, finding their plausibility within the human heart as much as in human reason…
Mere Apologetics - 7c Gateway 4: Images
Mere Apologetics - 7c Gateway 4: Images
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Gateway 4: Images For postmodern writers, pictures, rather than words, are the supreme form of communication. Advertising corporations spend fortunes determining the best image for a company. They develop television commercials presenting images that make us want to buy certain p…
Meeting God in Paul - 2 The universal welcome: Paul’s disturbing idea
Meeting God in Paul - 2 The universal welcome: Paul’s disturbing idea
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
The universal welcome: Paul’s disturbing idea The words just quoted form one of the most familiar texts from St Paul’s letters – a text which, as you can immediately see, sets Paul in opposition to some of the most powerful and dominant trends of his day…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8b Changing contexts
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 8b Changing contexts
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Changing contexts Now, a little bit of autobiography. I am a child of the 1960s, a baby boomer, and therefore I am part of the luckiest generation that has ever grown up in this country, and probably in any of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and …
Great Christian Thinkers - 10 St. Athanasius of Alexandria
Great Christian Thinkers - 10 St. Athanasius of Alexandria
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Athanasius of Alexandria Continuing our re-visitation of the great teachers of the ancient Church, let us focus our attention on St. Athanasius of Alexandria… Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 11 The Death of Jesus
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 11 The Death of Jesus
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Death of Jesus The crucifixion and death of Jesus is the “crucial” event of the shared gospel story, the climactic occurrence to which the whole course of events has been leading. Crucifixion was an excessively cruel and drawn-out mode of execution, designed to shock and inti…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 13 Good Work
The Monastery Of The Heart - 13 Good Work
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Good Work “When they live by the labour of their hands, then they are really monastics.” Prayer and contemplation, Benedict is clear, are no substitute for work. Nor are they an excuse to detach ourselves from the holy act of human responsibility for making the world go round… Ta…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 14 Co-Creation
The Monastery Of The Heart - 14 Co-Creation
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Co-Creation “Regard all utensils and goods of the monastery as sacred vessels of the altar.” Benedictine spirituality is a sacramental spirituality. It holds all things-the earth and all its goods-as sacred… Taken from The Monastery Of The Heart by Joan Chittister
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 9 The Walking on the Water
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 9 The Walking on the Water
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Walking on the Water The story of Jesus’ walking on the water appears in three of the four Gospels: not, as one might expect, in the three Synoptic Gospels, but in Matthew, Mark, and John. Luke does not include this episode; he moves directly from the feeding miracle to the c…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 9 The Wisdom of God (cntd.)
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 9 The Wisdom of God (cntd.)
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
The Wisdom of God Summary This homily touches on many themes. Six of them can be summarized as follows: 1. Here Paul continues to clarify and present his message. In Corinth he did not jettison his concern to build bridges for communicating the gospel to the Greeks and the Jews a…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 1d Creative engagement with nature
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 1d Creative engagement with nature
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Creative engagement with nature Renewing the face of the earth, then, is an enterprise not of imposing some private human vision on a passive nature but of living in such a way as to bring more clearly to light the interconnectedness of all things and their dependence on what we …
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 2 Visions of the end? Revelation and climate change
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 2 Visions of the end? Revelation and climate change
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Visions of the end? Revelation and climate change In chapter 4 of Revelation the author tells us that the song of praise before God never ceases (4.8), but now there is silence. ‘Heaven seems to hold its breath because of what is about to happen on earth.’…
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 1 Renewing the face of the earth: Human responsibility and the environment