Almighty God, To whom all restless hearts are open All old desires known And from whom no guilty secrets are hid Of thy great mercy, Regard the split men. Regard the man Who still dreams Christian dreams, Who cannot pass a chapel Except he enters in, Who cannot hear a carol Except he joins the…
Meeting God in Paul: Reflections for the Season of Lent. By Rowan Williams. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015. 96pp. $12.00 (paper). Archbishop Williams originally prepared the material in this book for a series of Lenten lectures. The audience of this book is primarily the layman. This is a departure from Williams’ usual writing…
We saw it sink; the tides took it, the tug of oars between the strand and formlessness that left the sands forlorn; out past the wrack, beyond the harbour-walls’ embrace, the embers ebbed to black. Listen, the land is locked in silence; waves and waders moved as one to cede the shore; the godwits gone,…
Colvin: Review of “Icons…” by WittReview of Icons of Christ: Plausibility Structures Review of Icons of Christ: Errors of Protology and Eschatology Review of Icons of Christ: Errors of Philology Review of Icons of Christ: Symbolism and ConclusionsPart 4: Symbolism and Conclusions In the previous three installments, we have examined the plausibility structures of women’s…
People say there are no longer any ogres left in the world, but it is not true. I have a friend in a distant country who was afflicted by one for some years. Bran had amassed a great collection of historical and artistic material on behalf of his nation and was famous for his work…
Colvin: Review of “Icons…” by WittReview of Icons of Christ: Plausibility Structures Review of Icons of Christ: Errors of Protology and Eschatology Review of Icons of Christ: Errors of Philology Review of Icons of Christ: Symbolism and ConclusionsPART 3 – ERRORS OF PHILOLOGY Having discussed plausibility structures and history in the previous two parts of…
Colvin: Review of “Icons…” by WittReview of Icons of Christ: Plausibility Structures Review of Icons of Christ: Errors of Protology and Eschatology Review of Icons of Christ: Errors of Philology Review of Icons of Christ: Symbolism and ConclusionsPART 2: WITT’S CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY In the first part of this series, we examined the plausibility structures…
Colvin: Review of “Icons…” by WittReview of Icons of Christ: Plausibility Structures Review of Icons of Christ: Errors of Protology and Eschatology Review of Icons of Christ: Errors of Philology Review of Icons of Christ: Symbolism and ConclusionsPART 1: WHY IS WOMEN’S ORDINATION PLAUSIBLE? Icons of Christ : A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination….
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…
Where, O Death, is your sting? If we increase the IV Morphene bolus You won’t feel a thing. There is nothing painful or hateful About this death. Cast your anxieties on Him — Be anxious for nothing. Or X units of…