The first caveat is this: My thoughts tonight are purely my own. I don't speak for the Holy See, or the American Catholic bishops, or the Houston Catholic community. In the Catholic tradition, the local bishop is the chief preacher and teacher of the faith, and the shepherd of the local Church. Here in Houston you have an outstanding bishop - a man of great Christian faith and intellect - in Cardinal Daniel DiNardo. In all things Catholic tonight, I'm glad to defer to his leadership.
Read moreTogether, they make up the text of the Song of the Sea, sung by jubilant Israelites after fleeing slavery in Egypt and witnessing the destruction of the pharaoh's armies in the Red Sea.
Read moreEach chapter concludes with some questions for discussion, making this an ideal study book for churches as well as seminaries.
Gerald's lifetime of engagement with Christian theology, his rich appreciation of the historical unfolding of the Christian theological tradition, and his remarkable gift for clarity and simplicity of expression and explanation, a gift which serves the interests of a genuine profundity, are all very evident in this book...
Read moreBefore I get further into this review–and it will be on the long side, so buckle up–I need to say a word about charity. Without a doubt the biggest critique Ted and I received for Why We're Not Emergent was that Ted and I were not charitable. We were, some said, unfair, mean, and ungenerous. I don't doubt that the same will be said of this review. So let me attempt a preemptive explanation.
Read moreWhile some Holy Land archaeologists support that version of history - including the archaeologist behind the dig, Eilat Mazar - others posit that David's monarchy was largely mythical and that there was no strong government to speak of in that era.
Speaking to reporters at the site Monday, Mazar, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, called her find "the most significant construction we have from First Temple days in Israel."
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Read moreThis Gafcon/FCA Primates Council, including leaders from some of the strongest Anglican communities in the world, have urged Anglicans everywhere to read and study this important work.
It has now been made available for download, in special edition along with "The Way, The Truth, and the Life" which was launched at GAFCON.
Read moreConstitution and Canons for a new Democracy
Later in this volume other authors will write about the precise details of the Constitution and Canons that were adopted by the Episcopal Church in the period from 1785 to 1789. At this point I do not want to enter into that very important conversation. What I would like to do is to step back and simply consider the importance of the fact that a set of constitutions and canons were adopted at all.
Read moreAnd more recently a brief theological treatment edited by Quash and Ward appeared: Heresies and How to Avoid Them (Hendrickson, 2008). Thus McGrath deserves credit for broaching this important subject, given that so few others have dared to tread here.
Read moreThe Nobel laureate added that Professor Reiss, who came under pressure to quit after suggesting that creationism should be discussed in schools, "cannot have his religious cake in church and eat the scientific one in the classroom".
Such views would have startled the scholars, including some of the greatest names in British science, who founded what became the Royal Society 350 years ago.
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