In a very stimulating post today Halden offers a reflection on two different narratives of Christian decline. One, associated with Hauerwas and others, attributes it to the Constantinian capitulation of the Church. The other (which I think is more diffuse – O’Donovan and Milbank are rather different) is with the modern turn to the individual, [...]
Antonio Lombatti asked me if I had the time to take a look at tonight’s BBC documentary on The Turin Shroud. (This iPlayer link will work for the next six days for those who can get the service.) He was particularly interested in what Professor Christopher Ramsey of the C14 testing laboratory in Oxford had [...]
Jim has a characteristically diffident post on what he learned from Karl Barth.
It is the undeniable, irrefutable, unalterable, eternal truth that the Gospel is in and of itself thoroughly sufficient and that the Gospel + Anything = heresy.
Leaving aside the consummate irony of a disciple of Bultmann (perhaps the greatest 20th century example [...]
Peter Kirk posts what I regard to be a mistaken reading of the birth narratives, especially the Lukan account. Before I interact with what he says about his own views, however, I want to try to clear up some confusions about my views as he portrays them in the post.
First, I believe there is almost [...]
In a comment on this earlier post, Peter Kirk said:
I am worried by your lack of interest in what actually happened, as a historical event. Sure, that is not all there is to the Christmas story. There is a place for “the challenging diversity that nurtures our encounter with Jesus”. But that encounter is nothing [...]
Michael Halcomb has responded in some detail to my post yesterday (which was in turn a comment on this post of his), arguing for the compatibility of the Matthean and Lukan birth narratives. (He is not alone, as this comment by Peter Kirk reveals.) I would again like to repay the compliment. I have a [...]
