Posted on December 29, 2007 by theprogressiveprophet
I was just reading this essay by Jürgen Moltmann, the German Protestant theologian and an adamant defender of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
I have heard many of these points before, though doubtless they didn’t convey the point as well as Moltmann does, that we are created in the image of community: to live as [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2007 by theprogressiveprophet
Mark 15
33At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
35When some of those standing near heard this, they said, “Listen, he’s calling [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2007 by theprogressiveprophet
I was having a think about some of the big names in the realm of Christian Nonviolence, and it occured to me that very few of them actually held what one might consider to be a “traditional” view of Christianity. Adin Ballou, one of the great preachers of Nonresistance in a Christ-centred context, was a [...]
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