Book Review: MIROSLAV VOLF, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity.
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan/ Cambridge, UK, 1998.
ISBN 0-8028-4440-5 (pbk). Pp. xii + 314.
The name of Miroslav Volf is becoming increasingly well known in the theological world. He comes from Eastern Europe (Croatia), has lived and studied in [...]
September 29, 2008
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Hitchcock: monster or moralist?
Biographers are divided on how to judge the personality of Alfred Hitchcock
Montgomery Clift stars as Father Michael Logan in I, Confess (1953)
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Bess Twiston Davies
Was Alfred Hitchcock a sexual monster? Or was he, as the French film makers Rohmer and Chabrol once claimed, a moralist whose films are steeped in [...]
September 25, 2008
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Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose. “Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country,” he wrote [...]
September 16, 2008
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New faith throws out the Ten Commandments
Barney Zwartz
September 16, 2008
Francis Macnab.
“THE TEN Commandments, one of the most negative documents ever written.” With that provocative claim posted high over two city streets, controversial cleric Francis Macnab yesterday launched “a new faith for the 21st century”, a faith beyond orthodox Christianity.
Dr Macnab says Abraham is probably [...]
September 16, 2008
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The following is an article written by my old mate Alan Matheson and reproduced with his permission.
I love Alan’s work, It is subversive yet hold s its integrity.
Alan Matheson
In 2004, the Vatican launched a global diplomatic campaign for the recognition of Christianphobia. The need for such a campaign, according to the sponsor of the UK [...]
September 10, 2008
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September 1, 2008
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Ched Myers doing what he does best.
NOT A PROBLEM!
September 1, 2008
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Learning to forgive may be good for your health …or so it was reported in the January 2008 issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource saying “Holding a grudge appears to affect the cardiovascular and nervous systems”. “Forgiveness is associated with better psychological well-being, greater marital satisfaction, less criminality and better adjustment to bereavement”.
The Church should [...]
September 1, 2008
Categories: Chaplaincy, Odds and sods, Postmodern thought, Theology . Tags: Chaplaincy . Author: lefonque . Comments: Leave a Comment