Guest Author a response to Robert Jenson, Jeffrey John, and a new volume entitled Pierced for Our Transgressions Eastertide, 2007 by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright Introduction About ten days before Easter, the question of the cross suddenly impinged on me from two different directions. Late one night, I read an article on the … Continue Reading
Christian healing is a messy mystery. All who have practised it and thought seriously about what they were doing will have found that it raises agonising questions to which there are no final answers and yields results that are very hard to categorise or explain. The longer we go on with it, the more the … Continue Reading
Spirituality Workbook: A Guide for Explorers, Pilgrims and Seekers (SPCK) by David Runcorn Fulcrum Review by Philip Seddon “Eat this book!” was the instruction given to Ezekiel by God, and is the proper imperative to attach to this latest treasure by David Runcorn, the author of several books, including Space for God, Touch Wood and … Continue Reading
After the debates at the American General Convention last summer, I wrote directly to all the primates of the Communion to ask about their reaction and the likely reaction of their provinces as to whether the resolutions of Convention had met the proposals of the Windsor Report for restoring something like normal relations between the … Continue Reading
No lack of love: the Fulcrum sermons of Oliver O’Donovan by Douglas Knight, assistant editor of Fulcrum Oliver O’Donovan is one of the most exciting theologians in the UK. He writes on current issues, like bioethics, just war, sexuality and the church. But his great strength, and the source of his evangelical authority, is his … Continue Reading
World Christianities c1914-c2000 Cambridge History of Christianity Vol 9 Editor: Hugh McLeod Cambridge University Press 2006 ISBN: 0521815002 (hardback) Price: £100 (US$180) Fulcrum review by Andrew Wheeler And so the colossal enterprise draws to a conclusion – the 9th volume in the CUP attempt to describe 2000 years of Christian enterprise across the globe. And … Continue Reading
by Colin Craston Reproduced with permission from the Church of England Newspaper 27 October 2006 Some people are born and brought up in the evangelical tradition. Others are drawn in by coming to faith through contact with it. The former route was mine. Till I left school and joined the Navy in 1941 a very … Continue Reading
by Terry Eagleton John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature, University of Manchester The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Bantam Press, 406pp This article first appeared in the London Review of Books 19 October 2006 and is reproduced with permission Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book … Continue Reading
The Report from the Commission on Urban Life and Faith Church House Publishing / Methodist Publishing House 2006 ISBN 1-85852-315-X click here for further details A Fulcrum Review by Stephen Cox This Report is much needed and very welcome. Its predecessor, the 1985 ‘Faith in the City’ report had a huge impact, lifting the inner … Continue Reading
‘Perichoretic Parenting’ by The Revd Dr Tom Smail, former lecturer in doctrine at St John’s College, Nottingham and former editor of Theological Renewal My title is at first sight an unlikely verbal combination: the adjective belongs to the highly technical language of Trinitarian theology and the noun to the world of contemporary pastoral concern. I … Continue Reading