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Entries from August 2007

Daily public prayer

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments

1. Morning and Evening Prayer shall be said or sung in every parish church at least on all Sundays and other principal Feast Days. Each service shall be said or sung distinctly, reverently, and in an audible voice.
2. On all other days the minister of the parish, together with other ministers licensed to [...]

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Tags: Anglican

The threat of ‘relevance’

August 14th, 2007 · No Comments

It is one of the most deeply rooted superstitions of our age that the purpose of education is to benefit those who receive it. What we teach in school, what subjects we encourage in universities and the methods of instruction are all subject to the one overarching test: what do the kids get out of [...]

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Tags: Public square

Challenged to make the difference

August 13th, 2007 · No Comments

If the Catholic community is engaged on these issues, working closely with evangelical Christians, observant Jews, and people of goodwill and sound moral judgment of other faiths and even of no particular religious faith, grave injustices and the erosion of central moral principles will be, to a significant extent, averted. Indeed, with respect to both [...]

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Well-ordered worship – Anglican canons

August 10th, 2007 · No Comments

1. All persons present in the time of divine service shall audibly with the minister make the answers appointed and in due place join in such parts of the service as are appointed to be said or sung by all present.
2. They shall give reverent attention in the time of divine service, give due reverence [...]

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The direction of the service should be removed from the worship leaders,

August 10th, 2007 · No Comments

1) The direction of the service should be removed entirely from the hands of the worship leaders, and solidly and unequivocally returned to, and made the whole responsibility of, the pastoral authority of the church. If a worship leader is retained, he must understand that he is wholly subordinate to that authority, having no standing [...]

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Tags: Church

The Eschatological Economy

August 9th, 2007 · No Comments

The Eschatological Economy: Time and the Hospitality of God is a book about Christian theology proper, that is, about the economy of God. In six chapters, Knight discusses the realms of being and becoming from the perspective of the scriptures, historical theology, systematic theology, and philosophy, and suggests a direction in which the Trinitarian doctrine [...]

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A Theology of Public Life

August 7th, 2007 · No Comments

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Charles T. Mathewes A Theology of Public Life
What has Washington to do with Jerusalem? In the raging debates about the relationship between religion and politics, no one has explored the religious benefits and challenges of public engagement for Christian believers – until now. This ground-breaking book defends and [...]

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Tags: Contemporaries

Asylum

August 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Working on behalf of the Churches’ Main Committee (representing the spread of Christian denominations in the UK), I have studied a great number of tribunal determinations on asylum claims from across the country, especially claims from people whose conversion to Christianity makes it unsafe for them to return to countries such as Iran.
The adjudicators lack [...]

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Tags: Public square