Category Archives: Reformed Christianity including Sydney Anglicans
Puritan and Pietist contending within evangelicalism
Roger Olson, Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Theology. (Baker Academic, 2007) In outlining the difference between conservative and postconservative evangelical theology, Olson makes a fascinating proposal. For him, evangelicalism has always faced the challenge and rewards of … Continue reading
‘God’s Genocide’: some not-so-sensitive campus evangelism
I am very disturbed by this poster that was seen around my university a few weeks ago. I’m a part time student, and I only saw the poster after the event, otherwise I would have gone to listen, mainly in … Continue reading
My big brown Strong’s Exhaustative Concordance, or how I think the Bible is being read badly
(I’m going to sound grumpy, but I’m not, I’ve just been thinking a lot about the use of the Bible.) It concerns me how badly the Bible is used by most evangelicals. Much of it stems from a failure to … Continue reading
Is God to blame?
When something bad happens, is it God’s will? And even if it wasn’t, why didn’t he intervene? Gregory Boyd’s book Is God to blame? moving beyond pat answers to the problem of suffering discusses these questions and offers some helpful … Continue reading
Yoder on church growth, the Great Commission and mission
I knew that Anabaptist theologian John Howard Yoder’s “Baptism and the new humanity” chapter of Body Politics had key things to say about my previous post concerning the shape of the church and anabaptist versus emerging church ecclesiology – but … Continue reading
Judging God?
While I’m being challenged by Reformed writers, I read this in the Trinity Theological College newsletter, from an article by Damien Young, and it resonated with me: Not so long ago people assumed that we were accountable to God, but … Continue reading
