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The Witness of Beauty – An Introduction (Part 3 of 3)
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 5. The Witness of Beauty in Practice How individual churches can most readily manifest beauty to their communities will vary depending on their circumstances. For this reason, I will not try to be overly specific about what people should do to achieve this end, nor will I suggest any…
A Tempest Observed: Reflections on Sexuality and the ACNA
Last week, noted Calvin College philosopher James K. A. Smith caused a stir on Twitter when he posted a picture of himself wearing a pink “You Are Loved” T-shirt, captioned “At @Calvin Uni, ALL students are welcomed, affirmed, and loved. To our LGBTQ students always, but today especially: #YouAreLoved.” Further context for the pic was…
Basilique du Sacre-Coeur
The steps of the Sacre-Coeur billow down the hill like a robe, and hundreds loiter on the hem, maybe hoping to be healed. Church steps have cradled them for centuries—the crippled, the homeless, the lost tourists, the tired pedestrians—but here at this place are three hundred steps instead of five or ten. The loiterers…
The Virtue of Courage
Having lived through what has surely been the strangest and possibly most unpleasant twelve months that we in England have faced in its collective life for many decades, I am hoping and praying that the crisis that we have all been living with is now winding down and will soon be behind us. As Lent…
The American Church’s Existential Crisis That Isn’t
The end of the American Church is imminent. At least two states have willfully attempted to stop the Church from meeting together, provoking the Supreme Court’s rebuke,[1] and there remains open hostility to the sanctity of life and marriage by so-called progressives.[2] Both major political parties are jointly liable for the Church’s decline, at least…
The Witness of Beauty – An Introduction (Part 2 of 3)
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 2. The Beauty of God We have seen that beauty, as a transcendental, is a property of not just some beings but all beings. From this a significant implication follows: The point here is the very notion of a “transcendental”: the word indicates that which transcends, or goes beyond,…
“All people… Sing…”: Reviewing the Church of England’s Covid-19 Guidance on Singing
For those of us in the Church of England attuned to its particular frameworks of time (the Church Calendar) and place (“this realm of England”[1]), the Valentine’s weekend of 2021 marked a solemn matrimony of two historic events. On the one hand, we were greeted with the news that 13 million of those most susceptible…
Review of Icons of Christ: Symbolism and Conclusions
Part 4: Symbolism and Conclusions In the previous three installments, we have examined the plausibility structures of women’s ordination (WO), Witt’s view of history, and his handling of Greek philology. We now turn to questions of symbolism, a topic that Witt discusses mainly in dialogue with Roman Catholic authors, especially Manfred Hauke.[1] Hauke’s argument is…
Review of Icons of Christ: Errors of Philology
PART 3 – ERRORS OF PHILOLOGY Having discussed plausibility structures and history in the previous two parts of this review, we come now to what, for Protestants, will be the central question of the debate: can Witt show that the passages that have long been thought to pose an obstacle to women’s ordination (WO) do…
The Witness of Beauty – An Introduction (Part 1 of 3)
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 At the turn of the twenty-first century, a revival of natural law took place among both Roman Catholics and Protestants. This revival has resulted in many contemporary Christian scholars affirming reason as the means by which “basic moral principles, assumed by and standing in agreement with biblical revelation, are…
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