MetaCatholic

Mike Higton has an excellent five point questionnaire on God and creation. Do have a read. And in case your interested, I answered:

Yes
Yes, sort of.
No.
No.
No.

May 20th, 2008 | Category: Fundamentalism, Theology | Comments (1)

In the OS wars, the question of which is more “intuitive” gets asked a lot. Mac users claim that OS X is clearly more “intuitive” than Windows. My early experience would suggest that “intuitive” is a matter of what you’re used to. Windows seemed quite intuitive to me, and I’m sure that in a couple [...]

May 5th, 2008 | Category: Hermeneutics, Mac vs PC, Switching to Mac | Leave a comment

… any better than anyone else. (And worse than liberal catholics!)
I’m not sure how I missed news of this news conference, but I don’t recall seeing it discussed. Apologies if I’m going over old ground. This is the most interesting summary:
Fundamentalists, or those who take a literal view of Scripture, do not know more about the Bible than [...]

May 3rd, 2008 | Category: Bible, Hermeneutics | Comments (4)

I note that in a fairly interesting interview (HT Peter Kirk who quotes with approval, and Jim West who quotes it with disapproval) Ben Witherington says this:
my view is that everything has to be sifted by the word of God and so theology is a second order task. You don’t start with your theology and [...]

April 3rd, 2008 | Category: Bible, Hermeneutics | Comments (6)

Since as an Anglican, I’m more used to splitting churches over sex — see how these men love one another. I can’t help but find a certain fascination (to say nothing of Schadenfreude) with the divisive power of inerrancy, currently convulsing Westminster Theological Seminary over the suspension of Peter Enns.
The deep running sense of irony [...]

April 2nd, 2008 | Category: Bible, Hermeneutics | Comments (6)

Michael Bird has drawn attention to an interesting series of posts on Darrell Pursiful’s blog, which I’d not come across before, but shall be adding to my feedreader. He discusses the separation of Eucharist and Agape, and has a lot of useful comment on the topic. He is quite right to state that:
It is universally [...]

March 26th, 2008 | Category: Early Church, Eucharist | Comments (2)

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 [...]

March 22nd, 2008 | Category: Faith and History, Science | Comments (3)

I’m afraid I can’t give you all the links for this post, at least for a week, since the Church Times irritatingly insists on reserving much of their current content for those who subscribe to the print edition. They charge more for the print edition if you subscribe, than if you buy it in the [...]

March 14th, 2008 | Category: Baptism, Trinity | Comments (7)

Somehow I’d missed this, but here’s a repeat of a defence of the Good Friday prayer for the Jews by none other than Jacob Neusner (scroll towards the bottom of the page).
He begins:
Israel prays for the Gentiles. So the other monotheistic religions, including the Catholic Church, have the right to do the same thing, and [...]

March 12th, 2008 | Category: Other Faiths, Prayer & Worship | Leave a comment