Category Archives: history
[Sermon] The Holiness Tradition
Mt Hawthorn Community Church, 9 January 2010 We are working our way slowly through a series based on Richard Foster’s book Streams of Living Water. Let me reorientate you to the idea of the streams. Foster describes six streams or … Continue reading
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Yoder on Peace and War in the Middle Ages
John Howard Yoder’s Christian Attitudes to War, Peace and Revolution (Brazos, 2009) is a posthumously published, edited version of the notes Yoder distributed for his course in the subject. In chapter 8 ‘The Career of the Just War’ and chapter … Continue reading
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The early church and war
Back on my ANZAC Day post, there was some discussion in the comments about the early church and war. I haven’t done much reading on this, but The Mennonite has a good introductory article by David Brattston, putting forward the … Continue reading
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Banishing art from the church
Reading an English history book, I was disturbed by the account of Puritans smashing statues in the churches and whitewashing paintings of Bible scenes. The book is by Roy Strong, a Catholic, and so he has his bias, but it … Continue reading
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Footwashing, rituals and the monarchy
12When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that … Continue reading
Filed under Anabaptism, Body Politics, history
