You scored as The Kingdom as a counter-system, This approach has been adopted by Anabaptist and similar groups who saw themselves as recapturing the essence of true Christianity in opposition to a “Christianised” society and an institutional church. Kingdom as a Christianised Society 92% The Kingdom as a counter-system 92% The Kingdom is mystical communion…
Category: Theology
What’s your eschatology?
You scored as Amillenialist, Amillenialism believes that the 1000 year reign is not literal but figurative, and that Christ began to reign at his ascension. People take some prophetic scripture far too literally in your view. Amillenialist 95% Moltmannian Eschatology 90% Preterist 65% Postmillenialist 50% Premillenialist 25% Dispensationalist 20% Left Behind 5% What’s your eschatology?created…
ROH MALAYSIA
“Roh is a Malay word which means “spirit” and yet phonetically sounds like ruach, the Hebrew word for God’s Creative Spirit hovering over the world, and through the Incarnation is now in us, amongst us and through the Resurrection is all in all.” This ripple is partly why I have been a little…
The Rapture Song
I confess posting this would not appear very generous to a particular “end-time-get-yourself-ready” theology. But then I couldn’t resist. Please don’t take this too seriously. It’s Bob’s fault! (via Think Christian)
Random Links 164 (Contextual Theology)
Contextual Theology: Liberation and Indigenization Wow this was already brewing in 1976 USA .. Towards a Contextual Theology I think this is worth putting up again. From Asia! Contextual Theologizing: Future Perspectives A Roman Catholic point of view … Bulletin for Contextual Theology Africa leads the way here. Palestinian Contextual Theology (pdf) An unexpected find….
Ten theses on Dietrich Bonhoeffer: theologian, Christian, martyr
Timely post for me as I’m soaking in the blessings from reading Bonhoeffer, thanks to Faith and Theology and Ray Anderson for highlighting Bonhoeffer again.. A guest-post by Ray Anderson, Fuller Theological Seminary 1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Christian theologian. Rather, one should say that he became a Christian theologian. Eberhard Bethge, his former student…
A dogmatics for every occasion
I chuckled when I read this by Ben Myers: An imaginative dogmatics: Origen, De principiis A majestic dogmatics: Calvin, Institutes An informative dogmatics: Donald Bloesch, “Christian Foundations” An encyclopaedic dogmatics: Pannenberg, Systematic Theology An intricate dogmatics: Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith A patient dogmatics: Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae A deep dogmatics: Tillich, Systematic Theology A legalistic…
Theology Joke
Thanks Maggi for this, I told myself when I read it, I MUST re-post it up … speak Lord, we are listening (or are we?). And Jesus said unto them, “And whom do you say that I am?” They replied, “You are the totaliter aliter, the vestigious trinitatum who speaks to us in the modality…
Spirituality and Theology
“It is my belief that the understanding of the history and theology of Christianity cannot properly be separated from the study of Christian spirituality. What is the character of the Christian life? What is the nature of Christian saintliness? How far is it linked with a response to the historical givenness of the gospel, and…
Preface to the Revelation of St. John (1522)
I’ve been attempting to preach from the Book of Revelation based on the lectionary readings the past three weeks. Of course, an important part of the exercise is to “debunk” the mechanical end-time doomsday approach I grew up listening to at one point (of course, I must acknowledge there are various interpretive models for the…