The blog of a Middle Anglican
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This will probably be my last post until the new year. The following is a bit off topic, but who cares? – it’s Christmas. Until they merged in the nineteenth century, Father Christmas and Santa Claus were originally two distinct figures. The story of Santa Claus begins with St Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in the [...]
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A few days ago I posted the first chapter of Ignatius of Antioch’s epistle to Polycarp, written probably at Troas in 112AD. Chapter 2 follows. EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO POLYCARP (CHAP 2) Let not the widows be neglected: be thou after God, their guardian. Let nothing be done without thy knowledge and consent; neither do [...]
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Alvin Plantinga has become well known for an argument which states that materialism and the theory of evolution are not beliefs which can be rationally held by one and the same person at one and the same time. His argument is that Darwinian evolution presupposes a mechanism of natural selection, whereby organisms possessing attributes well [...]
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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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It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the demand which Christian discipleship makes upon us. One of the words which the New Testament writers used to describe our relationship to God tends, in English, to be politely translated as servant. In the original Greek it means slave. Maybe that would have have raised relatively [...]
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There are seven epistles which have come down to us. from Ignatius of Antioch (who became Bishop of Antioch in 69AD). At one time thought to be forgeries, they are now almost universally accepted as being genuine. This epistle to Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, was written from Troas whilst Ignatius was being taken to Rome [...]
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