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Paul and the Faithfulness of God - Imperial Cult from Tiberius to Nero
Paul and the Faithfulness of God - Imperial Cult from Tiberius to Nero
by SPCK - N T Wright
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED: ROME AND THE CHALLENGE OF EMPIRE 4. The Religion of Empire (iii) Imperial Cult from Tiberius to Nero Tiberius was now ‘son of god’: son of the divine Augustus. I have on my desk, as I write this, a denarius of the kind they showed to Jesus not long before hi…
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Stories and Questions in the Second-Temple Jewish World
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD - Stories and Questions in the Second-Temple Jewish World
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD: THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL 4. Stories and Questions in the Second-Temple Jewish World (i) Introduction I analyzed the basic Jewish stories of the second-Temple period in the first volume, and must now develop and amplify some o…
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Where Two Roads Lead
New Testament Wisdom for Everyone - Where Two Roads Lead
by SPCK - N T Wright
4 THE PATH OF THE DISCIPLE WHERE TWO ROADS LEAD Romans 6: 20-23 One of the things you have to learn when you move house is which roads lead where. I was Christmas shopping the other day in the new town where we have just settled, and as I drove out of a car park I saw a long queu…
The Lion's World - 6 - Bigger inside than outside
The Lion's World - 6 - Bigger inside than outside
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Bigger inside than outside It’s – it’s a magic wardrobe. There’s a wood inside it, and it’s snowing, and there’s a Faun and a Witch and it’s called Narnia; come and see. ( The Lion Ch. 3 , p. 120) Lucy’s summary of the mystery introduces us to the image that will recur at the end…
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday after Ash Wednesday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Friday after Ash Wednesday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY... ...Three times yesterday the doorbell rang unexpectedly. First it was the engineer; he came to inspect the foundations of the outhouse. Then it was the builder; he came to measure for some windows that need replacing. Fi…
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 …
Great Christian Thinkers - 41 Rabanus Maurus
Great Christian Thinkers - 41 Rabanus Maurus
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
Rabanus Maurus A truly extraordinary figure of the Latin West, Rabanus Maurus was an exceptional and prolific monk. Together with men such as Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and Ambrose Autpert, two of whom I have spoken previously, during the centuries of the so-called…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 25 Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - Proper 25 Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
Proper 25 Jeremiah 31.7-9 Hebrews 7.23-28 Mark 10.46-52 Some theologies sound a bit vague about what happens to Jesus after the resurrection. His work is completed, once for all, on the cross, he is vindicated by the Father through the resurrection, and that’s that. Then, dependi…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter Year B