Kenyan Carving to Ponder Benson Ndaka St Andrew’s College, Kabare, Kenya Comments to Ponder Jürgen Moltmann The Crucified God (London: SCM Press, 1974) Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way. (p38) When the crucified Jesus is called … Continue Reading
Andrew Goddard 12th Nov 2007 Dear Giles, Thanks for your letter and sorry my decision to focus on the pressing Communion issues in mid-Sept was ‘perplexing’ and left you ‘not absolutely sure how it fits into our correspondence’. It is interesting that discussing these political issues seems so fruitless. If I’m totally honest I have … Continue Reading
Review of Scot McKnight, A Community Called Atonement (Abingdon Press, 2007). £9.99 by Andrew Goddard There can be little doubt that the cross and the doctrine of the atonement are close to the heart of evangelical identity. Sadly, as most recently evident in Pierced for our Transgressions and reactions to it, this means they can … Continue Reading
Giles Goddard "Goddard 2 Goddard" contents page Comment on and discuss this letter on the Fulcrum Forum 03 November 2007 Dear Andrew Thanks for yours dated 16th September. I was pleased to receive it and glad that our correspondence has re-opened, especially in view of the other developments in your, Lis and the children’s lives … Continue Reading
The Doctrine of Salvation among African Christians by Chigor Chike 1 Introduction This article which is taken form my book African Christianity in Britain will be devoted to how salvation is understood in African Christianity. The first task will be to describe how salvation is understood on the African continent. This will be followed and … Continue Reading
The crises that Anglicanism faces today can usually be traced to the different ways in which different sides approach the task of doing theology. The questions which arise are not new: how do we interpret Scripture? what authority do we give to Scripture? how much respect do we pay to the way in which Scripture … Continue Reading
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
Doubts about Doubt: Honest to God Forty Years On* By the Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright (Originally published in Journal of Anglican Studies, 2005, 3(2), pp181-96. Original pagination is retained in bold italicized numbers. Reproduced by permission of the author and the journal.) The notes in the text are hyperlinked into the end notes; … Continue Reading
by Dr Douglas Knight ‘Future directions in systematic theology’ is a title that invites a big answer. But I am going to start by giving you a modest account of what is being done by working theologians, and then we can see what there is to look forward to. I am going to give my … Continue Reading
Fulcrum Conference Islington Inciting Insight: The Holy Spirit Friday 29th April 2005 The Holy Spirit in the World Jane Williams Visiting Lecturer in Theology, King’s College, London Karl Rahner said: ‘I really only want to tell the reader something very simple. Human persons in every age, always and everywhere, whether they realise it and reflect … Continue Reading