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Ecumenical Lenten Resource 2016
Ecumenical Lenten Resource 2016
by Geraldine Hawkes
South Australian Council of Churches Ecumenical Lenten Resource 2016 ‘Return to God: Divine Grace and Human Struggle’ ‘Return to God: divine grace and human struggle’ offers 6 sessions, focusing on a range of Gospels during the Lenten season, and includes prayer, icons, art, time…
Healing Gifts for Wounded Hands
Healing Gifts for Wounded Hands
by Geraldine Hawkes
Healing Gifts for Wounded Hands is a work-in-progress. Please send your stories, Healing Gifts for Wounded Hands learnings, insights and suggestions to sacc1@picknowl.com.au - thank you! May 2014 The promise and potential of Receptive Ecumenism… The preparation of this booklet wa…
Ecumenical Lenten Resource 2016 Guidlines
Ecumenical Lenten Resource 2016 Guidlines
by Geraldine Hawkes
South Australian Council of Churches Ecumenical Lenten Resource 2016 ‘Return to God: Divine Grace and Human Struggle’ GUIDELINES FOR LEADERS AND PARTICIPANTS Lent – Easter – Pentecost 2016 Western Orthodox Lent Begins Ash Wednesday Beginning of Great Lent 10 February 2016 14 Marc…
embodying mark - Epilogue: Embodying Mark
embodying mark - Epilogue: Embodying Mark
by SPCK - meda a a stamper
Epilogue: Embodying Mark The Gospel of Mark offers us the possibility of a future that is not sorted, not contained, not resolved, and in doing that, it comes alongside people for whom that is the case, which at some time or another is each of us. In this way the Gospel is both w…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 2 The Task
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 2 The Task
by SPCK - N T Wright
2. The Task (i) What to Do with the Wicked Tenants What, then, is the nature of our task? It may help if we begin with another illustration, again concerning a squabble over territory: A man planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 4 “New Testament Theology”
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 4 “New Testament Theology”
by SPCK - N T Wright
“New Testament Theology” The second model we must explore is that of New Testament theology proper. This phrase has come to designate, more or less, the attempt to read the New Testament from a historical point of view, and, either simultaneously or subsequently, to draw its majo…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 5 Knowledge: Problems and Varieties
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 5 Knowledge: Problems and Varieties
by SPCK - N T Wright
Knowledge: Problems and Varieties We have seen that the study of the New Testament involves three disciplines in particular: literature, history and theology. They are, as it were, among the armies that use the New Testament as a battleground…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 6 Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 6 Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge
by SPCK - N T Wright
Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge Stories are one of the most basic modes of human life. It is not the case that we perform random acts and then try to make sense of them; when people do that we say that they are drunk, or mad…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 9 ‘Is There Anybody There?’
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 9 ‘Is There Anybody There?’
by SPCK - N T Wright
‘Is There Anybody There?’ We have already seen that, while naïve realism imagines itself to have direct access to the event or object spoken of in the text, a more phenomenalist reading realizes that it can only be sure of the author’s viewpoint. This is a less ambitious claim. I…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 11 On Literature
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 11 On Literature
by SPCK - N T Wright
On Literature If, then, we may agree that such a thing as literature exists, and that we can read it and talk sense about it without having our words collapse back upon themselves, it is important that we ask, albeit briefly, what literature itself is, and what we ought to do wit…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 8 On Reading
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 8 On Reading
by SPCK - N T Wright
On Reading With these examples in mind, we turn to the question: what happens when we read? The remarks in chapter 2 about the nature of knowledge must now be applied to this specific area. What kind of ‘knowledge’ do we gain as we read?…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 7 Literature, Story and The Articulation of Worldviews