The blog of a Middle Anglican
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Divine sovereignty implies predestination and preordination, but it also implies a duty of obedience towards the sovereign God. This does not just mean obedience to his will as revealed in (say) the Ten Commandments, but also the more particular requirements he places upon each one of us. The latter sometimes going by the name of [...]
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Between them the lives of Paul, Polycarp and Irenaeus, which were considered in previous posts, cover the period 30-200AD. Around 200AD, Cyprianus Thascius Cecilius was born in Carthage, North Africa. Up until his conversion ca 245 Cyprian held a position as a teacher of rhetoric, he was well known as a writer, and also for [...]
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A project I thought I might try on this blog is a “history of the Church,” consisting of overlapping lives of the saints, starting in the first century and coming right up to the present day. I can easily imagine that such a project will be easier to pull off for some periods of church [...]
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Especially amongst the more extreme of them, it is routine to hear fundamentalists say that evolution is all a plot, dreamt up by scientists determined to spread their atheistic philosophy. It is also routine to hear them say that reading the Bible in anything but a literalistic manner is the invention of theological liberals, who [...]
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You might think that the question of Jesus’ historicity is one which had long ago been settled in the affirmative. In fact, even Earl Doherty, one of the better known of today’s Jesus mythologists, has to admit that the attitude of mainstream scholarship towards his position is that of contempt. What is more, the contempt [...]
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On a forum I today read (yet again) somebody saying that, if you don’t read every part of the Bible literally, you can’t really be a Christian. The particular part of the Bible she was talking about was Exodus. So I made the point that it was not altogether obvious where Moses would have found [...]
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