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ETS & Evangelicals misunderstanding sola scriptura?
20/11/2007 23:33
The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) is not particularly well-known to most UK evangelicals. It describes itself as "a professional society of Biblical scholars, teachers, pastors and others involved in evangelical scholarship in order to serve Christ and His Church" which was founded in 1949...
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Rowan Williams, Decision-making and Bonhoeffer
18/11/2007 17:27
A comment piece by Andrew Brown on the travails of the Anglican Communion and Rowan Williams in particular refers to his address to the last Lambeth Conference (although I think a better analysis of the Archbishop’s position which also cites this paper is, I think, that of Marshall Montgomery on...
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Global Warming
18/11/2007 14:51
As reported by the BBC and others, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, has emphasised the need for government action on global warming in the light of latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).Their fourth report (with helpful 23 page PDF summary for...
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Petitions on human-non human hybrids
17/11/2007 22:44
I have just got an email originating from a leading Christian bioethicist relating to petitions responding to the new proposed legislation that would permit scientists to create ‘true hybrids’ ie embryos that would have a human parent and a nonhuman parent.
Although these embryos - like human...
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TEC's Divisions
17/11/2007 21:24
Over the last few weeks there have been major developments within TEC as it becomes clear that now dioceses and not just parishes are feeling unable to continue in their existing relationship with the national church.
We have seen a decision by the Diocese of Pittsburgh in the context of a...
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Stem cell breakthrough?
17/11/2007 19:26
The Daily Telegraph today reports on its front page (and now being picked up by various others) that Professor Ian Wilmut, the scientist behind Dolly, the cloned sheep, has abandoned the cloning method (nuclear transfer) which he developed to explore an alternative approach pioneered recently in...
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Three 'inclusive' contributions to the sexuality debate
16/11/2007 23:55
I have recently found three interesting contributions to the debates about homosexuality from an ’inclusive’ perspective and three different areas of academic expertise.
Most recent is the newly published submission from the Royal College of Psychiatrists which is available as PDF or HTML.
I also...
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Abortion - Doctor's rights and patients' rights
16/11/2007 23:19
I have just discovered an alarming news report in last Sunday’s Observer about a Christian doctor I know who is under investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) for how she responds to patients seeking an abortion and being criticised by my own MP here in Oxford. Tamie Downes apparently...
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Homosexuality - A First Order Issue? (II)
16/11/2007 22:01
In thinking through this question the first challenge is what is meant by the general reference to ’homosexuality’. After all, this is the issue which is being claimed as ’first order’ and ’communion-breaking’.
The problem can be seen if the relatively uncontentious claim is made that ’Christology’...
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Goddard 2 Goddard
14/11/2007 17:28
Almost a year ago now, Giles Goddard and I began a public correspondence (Goddard 2 Goddard: Waiting for Goddards - Corresponding Theologies) which is appearing on the websites of both Inclusive Church (which Giles chairs) and Fulcrum (whose Leadership Team I am on).
We’ve covered a wide range of...
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