Douglas Knight

The Career and Prospects of Providence in Modern Theology
An international conference 7-9 January 2008 King’s College, University of Aberdeen

Sarah Coakley
David Bentley Hart
Nicholas J. Healey
Alister E. McGrath
Charles Mathewes
Francesca Murphy
Cyril O’Regan
Katherine Sonderegger
John Webster
Philip G. Ziegler
and others
This conference aims to break fresh ground in the analysis of divine providence by exploring a range of current [...]

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
1. We, the Catholic Bishops of Scotland, greet you in the name of the risen Christ. As we continue to celebrate the mystery of Easter, we renew our hope in Jesus Christ as the source of our salvation.

2. Elections to the Scottish Parliament and to Local Authorities are approaching. Each [...]

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Copies of The Theology of John Zizioulas arrived here today. The book is published in May, and so far is visible on Amazon.co.uk only. Ashgate have the Contents page and Introduction. Here’s the blurb.
John Zizioulas is widely recognised as the most significant Orthodox theologian of the last half century and acclaimed advocate of [...]

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From all this it clearly emerges that an authentic European “common home” cannot be built without considering the identity of the people of this Continent of ours. It is a question of a historical, cultural, and moral identity before being a geographic, economic, or political one; an identity comprised of a set of universal [...]

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It is becoming obvious that the leadership of TEC means to move resolutely ahead with its mission of civil rights and inclusion, insisting that these are imperatives of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a kind of brand name for American Episcopalianism. (We leave to the side whether inclusion or civil rights are being honored [...]

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Neil MacDonald is good at titles. What do you think of his latest?
Metaphysics and the God of Israel: Systematic Theology of the Old and New Testaments

or of his earlier
Karl Barth and the Strange New World within the Bible: Barth, Wittgenstein, and the Metadilemmas of the Enlightenment

So what are the reviews like?
“Neil MacDonald’s reflection moves [...]

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THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW AND THE ACADEMY

A conference sponsored by the Aquinas Institute, Athletes in Action, the Baptist Student Fellowship, Christian Leadership Ministries, Manna Christian Fellowship, Princeton Evangelical Fellowship, Princeton Faith and Action, and the Witherspoon Institute.
Princeton, New Jersey November 9-11, 2007
Contrary to the perception of certain intellectual circles, no oil-and-water dynamic need exist between academic [...]

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According to the Pope’s ‘nuptial anthropology’, marriage partners are not merely turned towards one another in a dualistic relationship: they are also open towards a third, towards the child which expresses the unity of both in one flesh. Angelo Scola describes the structure of this relationship as one of ‘asymmetrical reciprocity’. It is precisely in [...]

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In a Lent talk for Radio 4 Canon Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans, poured scorn on the penal substitution account of the atonement. Jeffrey John, a wonderful communicator, communicated that the Christian Church has been teaching a vicious God. Canon John identifies the appalling doctrine the whole Church has been mistakenly though uniformly [...]

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How strange that our Catholic adoption agencies, which seek homes for some of the most vulnerable and difficult-to-place in our society, should be seen as discriminatory, when in accordance with religious belief and practice they ask only for the freedom for themselves to choose for those children an environment which in their professional wisdom is [...]

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What is the case for collegiality? According to Quinn, this was not a revolutionary idea invented at Vatican II, but something prefigured at Vatican I, and later endorsed by Pope Pius IX in 1875 when the German bishops insisted they were not mere functionaries of the pope. “The pope is bishop of Rome,” they maintained, [...]

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FAITH & PUBLIC POLICY FORUM
WEDNESDAY 2 MAY 07
‘Religion, Citizenship and Liberal Pluralism’
Lord Raymond Plant, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy, King’s College London
All seminars are held between 5.30pm and 7.00pm in room 3c, Old Committee Room, Strand, London

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Driving the development of the ascetical tradition was a religious culture of hope and love – hope that one can genuinely train his or her spiritually destructive passions, and the expectation that the meek and merciful would achieve a love of Jesus Christ. It was the ascetical discipline that in no small measure protected the [...]

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A church, in fact, when it’s working, when it’s alive and healthy, is a place that tells you the world is too small. That may sound a rather odd way of putting it, but the church should be a place that tells you that the world is too small. That is, the world of rational [...]

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The catholicity of the Church expresses the fullness, integrity, and totality of its life in Christ through the Holy Spirit in all times and places. This mystery is expressed in each community of baptized believers in which the apostolic faith is confessed and lived, the gospel is proclaimed, and the sacraments are celebrated. Each church [...]

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“Get rid of the cross or we will burn your Churches”. This is the threat aimed at the Chaldean Church of Sts Peter and Paul, located in the ancient Christian quarter of Baghdad, Dora.
The Islamic group active in Dora seems to have delivered an ultimatum to the Christian community there: convert to Islam or die; [...]

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Right from the days of Jesus’ mission between the Jordan, Galilee and Jerusalem, some have been embarrassed by the eschatology articulated in his message of the approach of God’s final reign. Some have not been able to avoid asking whether there is something shamefully mistaken or wrong hereabouts. Such embarrassment has persisted to [...]

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Anglican Mainstream’s article On the cross gives a handy summary of the debate on penal substitution – and see Mike Ovey’s new Pierced for my Transgressions – evidence that there is just a little theology going on in London.

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What is occurring in modern Europe? We are all observers of how a dramatic weakening of Europe’s Christian identity is taking place. Europe is losing the characteristics given to it by Christianity – I would like to stress: both Western and Eastern! Borrowing some words from the title of our conference, Europe is losing its [...]

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“Jesus of Nazareth” is the first part of a two-volume work that Joseph Ratzinger conceived many years ago as part of his “long interior journey” in search of “the face of the Lord.” In this first volume, the narrative begins with the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, and continues to his transfiguration on [...]

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