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Theosblog: Nonviolent Action
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An online exercise in integrating the scattered parts of my life. A review of Ronald J. Sider, Nonviolent Action: What Christian Ethics Demands but Most Christians Have Never Really Tried. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2015. Sider’s selectivity seems to extend to his definition of NVDA. He seems to focus exclusively on mass protests against what modern liberal-minded Americans would regard as oppressive regimes. What about strikes, boycotts, and pickets? What about the Sanctuary Movement? So while the ...
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Theosblog: The Myth of the Market
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An online exercise in integrating the scattered parts of my life. The Myth of the Market. A review of The Myth of the Market. By Jeremy Seabrook (Black Rose Books, 1996). Jeremy Seabrook’s book is a damning indictment of free market economics. He writes as a disillusioned socialist who has witnessed the total capitulation of democratic socialism (and, more recently, totalitarian socialism) to the content, if not the rhetoric, of free market ideology. For Christians, this book offers a salutary reminder a...
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Theosblog: May 2014
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An online exercise in integrating the scattered parts of my life. Augustine – 1; Lawrence – 0. Some months ago I blogged about Collin Garbarino. 8217;s 2014 reading programme for Augustine’s City of God. I decided to try it for myself and have managed to keep up. But now it is time to admit defeat. Attacks on his opponents – I’m afraid it is only too obvious at times that he was a rhetor rather than a philosopher.). Links to this post. Give thanks in all things. You say grace before meals. He neatly expa...
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Theosblog: June 2014
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An online exercise in integrating the scattered parts of my life. Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love. A review of Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love. By Elizabeth A. Johnson (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). In conclusion, I was disappointed by this book, not because it is a bad book (on the contrary, she writes very clearly and makes a good case for Christians to take the natural environment more seriously) but rather because I had hoped for more. Links to this post. Almost anything from art a...
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Theosblog: Upcoming concert
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An online exercise in integrating the scattered parts of my life. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. St Aidan’s, Clarkston. Glasgow Editors’ Network. Society for Editors and Proofreaders. City of Glasgow Chorus. Glasgow SF Writers Circle. Science and Religion Forum. Scottish Evangelical Theology Society. Society for the Study of Theology. The Myth of the Market. Christianity is a way of life. Spirituality and the Secular Quest: a review.
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Theosblog: Spirituality and the Secular Quest: a review
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An online exercise in integrating the scattered parts of my life. Spirituality and the Secular Quest. Ed) Spirituality and the Secular Quest. London: SCM Press,. In spite of the wealth of valuable material contained in these pages, by the end of the volume I too felt uneasy about the entire venture. The sheer breadth of the volume raises a serious question. If gay leathersex sadomasochism can count as a spiritual practice (pp. 344–6), is it possible to conceive of anything that would not. Nevertheless, I...
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Theosblog: November 2014
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An online exercise in integrating the scattered parts of my life. Thought for the day: seeing with other eyes. If we visited Mars or Venus while keeping the same senses, they would clothe everything we could see in the same aspect as the things of Earth. The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another (Marcel Proust, The Captive. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Theosblog: Christianity is a way of life
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An online exercise in integrating the scattered parts of my life. Christianity is a way of life. One of the blogs I follow has just published an entry on Islam, which begins thus:. I find this deeply disturbing. It is profoundly wrong (perhaps even heretical) to set up such a contrast between Christianity and Islam. Way of life – according to Brother Francis, the vita evangelica. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. St Aidan’s, Clarkston. Glasgow Editors’ Network. Science and Rel...
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