Category: Emerging Church
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A Plea for Christian Piracy [6] – Conclusion 1
[ Piracy 1 ] | [ Piracy 2 ] | [ Piracy 3 ] | [ Piracy 4 ] | [ Piracy 5 ] What pirates do, as a rule, is emerge from the underbelly of a ‘stuck’ orthodoxy and, by way of actions that are initially perceived as heretical, reinvigorate that practice. The heresy…
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Winning a Parable Competition…
My good friend Pete has posted on his blog today that I’ve won the parable competition that he and Paraclete Publishing ran over the past couple of months. It’s a real honour to have been chosen among so many great entries. As Pete and I are friends, I did just want to point out that…
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Greenbelt 09 | Christian Piracy | Theology and the New Physics
Really looking forward to being at Greenbelt again this coming weekend. The programme – from the talks to the music to the comedy to the campaigning is as strong as ever and, I feel, has a nice edge to it too. (Full talks listings here) For those who are going to be there, I’m going…
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Bad Faith | The Paradoxes of Denomination and Decision [4]
[ Bad Faith 1 ] [ Bad Faith 2 ] [ Bad Faith 3 ] I ended the previous post with the question of what we might mean by our decisions to denominate ourselves as ‘Christian’ or otherwise. Before I can answer that though, I think it is worth noting just how infatuated we are…
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Bad Faith | The Paradoxes of Denomination and Decision [3]
[ Bad Faith 1 ] [ Bad Faith 2 ] In the previous two posts I have attempted to outline something of Satre’s position on ‘bad faith.’ As an existentialist, Satre is convinced that we are utterly free; he is also aware that who we are as human beings is suspended in the paradox of…
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Bad Faith | The Paradoxes of Denomination and Decision [2]
In the previous post I began to explore some of Satre’s thoughts about ‘bad faith’, and we saw that in the case of the waiter, his role as a waiter appeared to be putting an obligation on him: he feels he ought to be acting like a waiter ought to act. He is thus denying…