Entries Tagged as “Theology”

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Adventures in Ecclesiology: Part III
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on November 05, 2009
Excerpt:  From time to time I run across a book, or a TV “infomercial, suggesting that the health of one particular organ or organ system within the human body is the…   Read full post >>

Seven Councils, One Tradition (Part 1)
By:  Sam Keyes on November 04, 2009
Excerpt:  Portions of this first part also appeared as an essay in The Living Church. It seems fitting, as other contributors engage with Richard Hooker’s account of faith and order, that…   Read full post >>

Adventures in Ecclesiology: Part II
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on October 26, 2009
Excerpt:  Systematic Theology is the discipline of taking that which Christians believe and teach (or, in any case, that which any given systematic theologian thinks Christians should believe and teach) and…   Read full post >>

Adventures in Ecclesiology: Part I
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on October 19, 2009
Excerpt:  This is the first of what I anticipate will be a four-part series on how we think theologically about the Church. Mine has been one of the voices in the…   Read full post >>

What now?
By:  Sam Keyes on August 09, 2009
Excerpt:  2 Kings 2:1-15 Ephesians 4:1-7,11-16 Mark 6:45-52 Psalm 114 The Apostle Paul gives us some of the loftiest language about the Church in the whole New Testament. It is breathtaking.…   Read full post >>

The Political Challenge of Catholic Anglicanism
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on August 05, 2009
Excerpt:  On the Sunday evening that fell during General Convention, it was my privilege to serve as a panelist in a roundtable discussion sponsored by <i>The Living Church. The subject was…   Read full post >>

Tract 6: Respecting Boundaries (Pt 4)
By:  Dr. Nathan Jennings on August 05, 2009
Excerpt:  Go to Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3 of this series of six articles in ecclesiology. In the previous posts of this series I have pointed out the deep…   Read full post >>

You Are Not a Bible Character
Channel: Glory to God for All Things  Author: Stephen Freeman
By:  Sam Keyes on June 29, 2009 Excerpt: There is a long history of just such usage. The pilgrim fathers who came to America read their situation into the Bible (or the Bible into their situation) with the…   Read full post >>

Richard Bauckham Receives Michael Ramsey Prize
Channel: Ramsey Prize
By:  Benjamin Guyer on June 04, 2009 Excerpt: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, awarded the 2009 Michael Ramsey prize to Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham at the Guardian Hay festival on 28th May. The…   Read full post >>

Non-Violent Atonement
Channel: Maggi Dawn  Author: Maggi Dawn
By:  Craig Uffman on April 15, 2009 Excerpt: I see that Giles Fraser is getting a bit of stick both in blogland and tweetsville over his latest comments on Good Friday and Easter. He has claimed that the…   Read full post >>

More thoughts from Kevin Thew Forrester
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on April 02, 2009 Excerpt: Bishop-elect Kevin Thew Forrester of the Diocese of Northern Michigan has released a statement, Centrality of the Incarnation, that appears today on Episcopal Café. Here is the statement in full:…   Read full post >>

Tract 6: Respecting Boundaries (Pt 3)
By:  Dr. Nathan Jennings on March 27, 2009
Excerpt:  Go to Part 1 or Part 2 of this series of six articles in ecclesiology. According to the rich, episcopal ecclesiology of Eastern Orthodox theologians like John Zizioulas, the order…   Read full post >>

Theses on Anglicanism
By:  Benjamin Guyer on March 12, 2009
Excerpt:  I. Anglican history comprises two distinct ecclesiological streams. The first is that of monarchical Anglicanism, which began with Henry VIII; this was the dominant stream for more than 300 years.…   Read full post >>

Ten propositions on penal substitution  Author: Kim Fabricius
By:  Craig Uffman on March 01, 2009 Excerpt: Came across this excellent discussion of the penal substitution theory while reading other writings of Kim Fabricius. Given the prevalence of this theory among conservative Christians, it is well worth…   Read full post >>

Reflecting on Scripture
By:  Craig Uffman on January 31, 2009
Excerpt:  A friend, after noting how seriously I take Scripture’s claim on our lives, asked me if I consider myself a biblical literalist. His question reflects the fact that we live…   Read full post >>

Koinonia and the Covenant Process
By:  Bishop Jim Stanton on January 31, 2009
Excerpt:  Bishop James Stanton of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas offers the morning keynote address at the inaugural Covenant Conference in Dallas, TX on December 6, 2008. The Conference was presented…   Read full post >>

Three Admonitions, Three Promises
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on January 31, 2009
Excerpt:  In our gospel reading from Luke this morning, we find an apocalyptic discourse centered on the destruction of the one thing the Jewish people of Jesus’ day took the most…   Read full post >>

Patient Endurance
By:  Ephraim Radner on January 02, 2009
Excerpt:  In a recent address, Bishop Duncan said of the proposed new province, “We need a unified body both to heal the divisions among ourselves and to give the broader Anglican…   Read full post >>

“Communion” in ecumenical discussions
By:  Christopher Wells on December 20, 2008
Excerpt:  I. The heart of communion: One body, appearances notwithstanding 1. Perhaps the most fundamental assumption of the ecumenical movement has been its “non-controversial assertion” that “the Church possesses a unity…   Read full post >>

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