Conscience – our interior guide to the rightness or wrongness of our behavior – must not be confused with the voice of God. Our sense of right and wrong belongs to our nature, not God’s, and, as such, is sinful, fallible, fractured. It arises from our own desire to remain in control of ourselves, and [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Conscience and the Voice of God
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Conscience, Ethics on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Salvation is Inclusion in Christ’s Exclusive Relation to the Father: Moltmann on the Two Natures Doctrine
Posted in Christology, Jesus, The Resurrection, tagged Jurgen Moltmann on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“What the dogmatic doctrine of the two natures termed ‘Christ’s divinity’ really means is Jesus as ‘only begotten Son’ in his exlusiveness and uniqueness. What is called ‘Christ’s humanity’ really has to do with Jesus as ‘the first-born among many brethren’. For the one person of Jesus Christ is not a matter of two metaphysically [...]
“Meaning”
Posted in Czeslaw Milosz, Eschatology, Life after life-after-death, Theology of Hope, tagged Add new tag on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I die, I will see the lining of the world.
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
The true meaning, ready to be decoded.
What never added up will add Up,
What was incomprehensible will be comprehended.
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”: Bono on Popular Christian Music, His Work in Africa, Following Jesus, and Overthrowing the Way of the World
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bono on May 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In this (part of a larger) interview with Bill Hybels, Bono speaks candidly about why he dislikes popular Christian music, the experience in Africa that gave birth to his work for the ill and poor there, and his understanding of Jesus as Son of God. Listen especially for his comments on the difference between “the [...]
Pure Nonsense: Evangelicals and the Obsession with Sexual Purity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged evangelicalism, sexuality/gender on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Have you heard of the father-daughter purity ball? In it, according to this New York Times article, the father pledges to protect his daughter(s) from the perverse “hook-up culture” she meets at school and at work, and leads her through a series of rituals to signify the rigidity of his commitment. (By the way, as [...]
