It has to be said, there is an emerging understanding of death and the afterlife in Ancient Israel. They believed in Sheol, which is not greatly...
Out of curiosity, does htis post imply that actually you do support the deliberate termination of some lives in certain circumstances? If it...
If I may interject with one or two observations. Firstly, I think looking at 'which churches are growing' is to use the wrong measure- far more...
I think a suitable reply to this has already been devised: https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-pegg/ukip-shipping-forecast (although it probably...
Liturgy and Baptismal creeds are older than some texts that make up what is now 'the New Testament' (never mind the fact they probably predate, in...
I think MatthewOlsen is quite right. On his side is a very ancient and venerable tradition of the Church, whereas EC, you offer something quite...
Another thought, of course is about what 'humanity' might mean in this case. Whatever 'humanity' is, it has been assumed fully by Christ, and...
I do not come armed with an answer (other than to note that presumably part of the reason for asking saints over the living is that the former...
A pleasure to make your acquaintance, I hope your time here will prove to be a happy one.
If it is any solace, between the views expressed by most of the people here, and most other Anglicans in the real world, there is a much, much...
It is quite Barthian, but I don't think Church Dogmatics, a work of systematic theology, was simply about that. Also, it is actually the...
I did wonder if you might have meant that, but your sentence was misleading. Actually I think history suggests that 'the Church' in toto was not...
After Christianity became the religion of the Roman Empire, all Bishops worked in the civic-judicial process, pleading causes to higher-ups....
Well OC, I cannot deny that you argue your position with a deep consistency. As flawed as I think the premises are, at least I think we are both...
I merely find it a curious observation that everyone who asserts a personal devil actually has no personal contact, but instead asserts it because...
Anyone actually met him? Or a demon?
If I can be slightly pernickety, saying 'they have free choice except their will is utterly bound up so they can only make one kind of choice'...
It may just be a slight confusion of meaning in your sentence, but if I take it as written... No. (How very Barth!) The sight of Christians...
Well I hope you had a very Merry Christmas! I myself did, even went to midnight mass. Marvelous affair, think I even espied a genuine cloth of...
Better yet, why not recommend me some of those you find the best please? I presume you would know the wheat from the chaff in these matters.