Douglas Knight

The purpose of this blog is to tell you about The Eschatological Economy. Reviews are beginning to appear.
In this ambitious book, Douglas H. Knight sets out to illustrate the way Christian theology can function not as one category of knowledge within a larger secular account of the world but as itself the [...]

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It has become fashionable for politicians to extol the virtues of the family. Yet, in this economic analysis of family policy, Patricia Morgan shows how politicians have been at war with the family over at least the last 25 years. The family is an important vehicle for welfare provision and for income transfers to the [...]

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Love & Responsibility – Theological Lecture Series 2008
Due to the success of Catholicism for the Curious and Theology of the Body, the School of Evangelisation will be hosting a third series of lectures this year, commencing on Wednesday 27th February at supper & welcome at 6.15pm with talk starting at 7pm.
A series of high profile [...]

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Professor Walter Moberly of Durham University
Like any other book? How should the bible be read? The Ethel M Wood Lecture
6th March 5.30pm The Council Room, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

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The Zizioulas Lectures in Christian Dogmatics are on their way. That marvellous publisher, T & T Clark, has promised to get the book out in October (2008).
Here is something from the Editor’s Introduction
Man was given the freedom of God to decide freely, and on behalf of all creation, for participation [...]

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Third Sunday of Lent
Exodus 17.1-7
Psalm 95
Romans 5.1-11
John 4.5-42
In our preparation for Easter we have been looking at the different aspects of the resurrection that are presented to us in the Scripture readings for the five Sundays of Lent. We are thinking through here what we are doing when we gather in Church and [...]

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Michael Spenser is concerned that the Chinese church is vulnerable to the ‘Prosperity Gospel’
The Prosperity Gospel….
A) is the presumption that God wants us to be rich.
B) is the assumption that the blessings of the Gospel are a guarantee of material and financial blessings now. (The mediation of Jesus makes all blessing possible, but it [...]

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The absence of peace exacerbates the many long-standing problems as well as the poverty afflicting the region of the Holy Places. We must recognize that Christians who reside there are a priority for the attention of the entire Catholic Church, together with that of all other Churches and ecclesial communities. For even in their need, [...]

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Europe’s Man of Destiny is Geert Wilders, the 35-year-old leader of Holland’s tiny Freedom Party. He has provoked the world Muslim community in order to draw the violent jihadists out of the tall grass, and he seems to be succeeding. Call what Wilders has done nasty but necessary, and blame Europe’s so-called mainstream leaders for [...]

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Peter Rippon (editor of the World at One, which broadcast an interview the Archbishop before his lecture) forgets to mention (or completely misses) the following facts:
1. The story was trailed at the top of the news programme with the headline: The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the adoption of Sharia Law [...]

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Cardinal Walter Kasper has been talking about the October 2007 Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, held in Ravenna, and explaining what’s left in the process of achieving full unity.
The breakthrough, he said, was that “the Orthodox agreed to speak about the universal level – because before [...]

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Life comes from outside us – we are ‘born from above’. We are not individually in charge of our own existence, means that life also come from outside us. This ‘outside’ John identifies with ‘above’, where God is.
Jesus answered, ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without [...]

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My Archbishop was given the title Civil and Religious law in England: A Religious Perspective.
But my Archbishop did not say that ’some aspects of Sharia law “seem unavoidable”‘, as is widely reported.
He said that
‘a scheme in which individuals retain the liberty to choose the jurisdiction under which they will seek to [...]

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Here are some more views on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech on Civil and Religious law in England: A Religious Perspective:
Ali Eteraz comment at ‘Sharia Subjects VI: Concurrent jurisdiction would be used to coerce average believers‘ at Our Kingdom
A majority of British Muslims are just fine with the legal system. They consider it [...]

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Rowan Williams comments would have been much better said by someone else. The trouble is that he’s leader of the worldwide Anglican communion. His words therefore reflect on Anglicans in Pakistan, Nigeria and Uganda, whose churches are being firebombed by gangs of Muslims, whose leaders and their families are being attacked and murdered. Patrick Sookhedeo [...]

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On Thursday Gordon Brown’s spokesman denounced Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’ claim that the introduction of sharia to the UK was inevitable. However, Gordon Brown himself has been quietly seeking to appease certain aspects of the agenda of ‘peaceful’ Islamist groups in the UK – including what amounts to a partial implementation of sharia.
In the [...]

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Maximus views the liturgy thus: the first entrance of the bishop signifies the first coming of Christ and his saving passion; the bishop’s entering the sanctuary and mounting the throne is nothing less than Christ’s ascension into heaven and sitting on the heavenly throne; the reading of the Gospel signifies the end of this world, [...]

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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are in Cambridge next week. This should become a roadshow. Thanks to Maggi Dawn.

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The fundamental issue [Archbishop Rowan] was addressing is the relation between the law of the land and the religious conscience of the citizen. For 200 years it has been assumed that these operated in separate spheres: the law regulates my public life, faith or religion operate in private. This was always a dangerous half-truth, since [...]

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The head of the Anglican church in Europe, Dr Geoffrey Rowell, was locked out of six churches in Turkey by their congregations after his controversial decision to ordain a local convert to the priesthood.
In an unprecedented step and amid fears that the ordination would endanger the lives of congregants in the mainly Muslim country, furious [...]

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