LIBERATION THEOLOGY & RADICAL CHRISTIANITY WITH CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND
29 Sunday Jan 2012
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inTo look at many Christians who are soft and effeminate and sweet one would think that their ambition is to be the honeypot of the world. They sweeten and sugar the bitterness of life with an all too easy conception of a loving God. They soften the harshness of guilt with an appallingly childish romanticism. They have retouched hell out of existence and only heaven is on the horizon. When it comes to the devil and temptation they stick their heads in the sand and they go about with a constant, set smile on their faces, pretending that they have overcome the world. For them the kingdom of God, that comes with the savage agonies and travail of history, the excesses of the Anti-christ, and the groans of martyrs, has become an innocuous garden of flowers and their faith a sweet honey they gather from its blossoms. And this is also the reason why the world turns away, sickened and disgusted, from these Christians. People in the world know that life is harder than that, and therefore they know that it is more decent to bear the bitterness of it without sugaring it over.
~ HELMUT THIELICKE, LIFE CAN BEGIN AGAIN: SERMONS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
16 Monday Jan 2012
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On a recent visit to Geneva I found some old reports in the archives of the new WCRC. Here is an extract from Sao Paulo Story: The Eighteenth General Council of the Alliance of the Reformed Churches Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian Order (1960) (being the official report of the Assembly in Brazil, 1959).
These recommendations fall at the end of the Report on Sub-Theme IV~ THE SERVICE OF THE STATE
15 Sunday Jan 2012
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inI was browsing Religion Online today – a wonderfully simple website that provides a staggering wealth of material. Some highlights from this morning:
1. All chapters from this gem of a book: ‘The Use of the Bible in Theology/Evangelical Options’. I especially enjoyed reading:
2. Gems from Walter Brueggemann: