Theology

The Trinity in the West and the East

by Eddie 02.09.2010

Discussion about the Trinity amongst Western Christians of all stripes tends to focus on the metaphysical issues raised by the oneness and threeness of God. Such speculation is of interest mainly to systematic theologians, with most other Christians content to accept the idea because that’s what Christians are supposed to believe (however irrational it may [...]

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Darkness and Light

by Eddie 08.08.2010
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The British press have, rightly, been full of reports about the death of 10 Aid workers, including one British doctor, in Afghanistan over the weekend. The ten who died worked for a Christian Charity, the International Assistance Mission. IAM is a humanitarian organisation which has worked inside Afghanistan for forty years providing healthcare to people [...]

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Participating in God

by Eddie 25.06.2010

I’ve been ploughing through Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity by Paul Fiddes for some time now. In common with many books on Trinitarian theology (even those which call themselves pastoral) it is pretty hard going. It does, however, make very rewarding reading. There is much about this book that I thoroughly [...]

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A Wright Good Conference

by Eddie 04.05.2010

Normally when I go running, I listen to seventies rock music. It takes something with a good driving beat to keep my feet moving. However, over the last week or so my exertions have been accompanied by a series of lectures from a conference at Wheaton College called: Jesus, Paul and the People of God: [...]

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Future Speculation and Serious Bible Study

by Eddie 19.03.2010

I’ve only just started reading Beyond Empire: Postcolonialism & Mission in a Global Context by Jonathan Ingleby, but I can already tell that I’m going to enjoy it. The following quote takes up an issue which I consider to be of primary importance in the mission world today: One of the most depressing features of [...]

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African Theology

by Eddie 11.03.2010

Onesimus has transcribed an amazing conversation between a group of (mainly African) post-grad students discussing the issue of African theology. It is rather long, but it is well worth a read and there are lots of great insights: When the gospel came to Africa, it was foreign to the way of life of the people. [...]

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Please Read This: Salvation is Societal

by Eddie 14.02.2010

Please, do me (and yourself) a favour and read this piece by Onesimus Online. It is a superb article which eloquently expresses many things that I have as half-formed thoughts in my mind. It’s a longish article and it isn’t particularly easy, but it really is fantastic. Archimandrite Innocentios Byatunga began his homily last Sunday [...]

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The Missionary Heritage and African Theology

by Eddie 18.01.2010

One of the reasons that televangelists and prosperity gospellers are so incredibly popular in sub-Saharan Africa is that they are engaging Africans at their point of need. That being the case, I am not advocating changing ‘the gospel’ to make it pleasing to people (which is what these people do on a regular basis). Rather [...]

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False Dichotomies in Mission

by Eddie 13.07.2009

This is the first of two posts I’ll make today about work by Chris Wright. (It does seem as though having the Wright surname is a help in writing good Christian books -sorry). Koinonia, the Zondervan theology website has a couple of excellent posts on false dichotomies in mission by Chris Wright. He makes a [...]

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Mission: Pragmatic or Bible Based?

by Eddie 03.07.2009

Thanks to Ben, I’ve just come across the 9 Marks magazine which has a mission focus in the current edition. One of the articles is by Andy Johnson and is called Pragmatism, Pragmatism Everywhere. This touches on an issue that is very dear to my heart; the dilema which sometimes faces missionaries of whether to [...]

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Reflections on Reading the Bible Missiologically

by Eddie 05.06.2009

Chris Wright author of the wonderful The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative gave a public lecture at Redcliffe College recently. The mission e-zine encounters is focussing on the lecture this week. You can listen to it and read responses from a number of interesting people by visiting this link. I would particularly [...]

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A Mandate for Mission

by Eddie 27.05.2009

From the Lausanne World Pulse: John Perkins suggests that three types of people are needed in order to see real transformation of an urban neighborhood: The “relocators” are those people who were not born in the neighborhood, but who move into the area to tie their well-being to that of their neighbors. The “returners” were [...]

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