There’s a thread at MetaFilter entitled “What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?” It concerns the hard sciences and mathematics in the main, but the same question is fair for the ministry, church administration or even theology.
Not that any one book would be perfect […]
Pastors: if you need some background about and against “complementarianism” — male headship and female submission — for providing pastoral care or want to learn more about using Linux, check out one of my favorite blogs, 42, written by Methodist minister Dave Warnock.
He’s on a roll.
Thanks to Jonathan Bonomo at Reformed Catholicism for noting the Mercersburg Society’s Web site, which has a new harbor — appropriately enough — with the Philip Schaff Library of the Lancaster Theological Seminary. (The library also hosts the Evangelical and Reformed Church — half of the present United Church of Christ — archives.)
In case you’re […]
Sometimes the comments is where all the fun is. At Chris Walton’s Philocrites blog, his article about Isaac Newton has morphed into a discussion about the possible future of Unitarian Christological thought. I won’t be chiming in there — I don’t have a horse in that race — except to note
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I would love D. W. Congdon’s recently revised list of blog posts about Universalism (The Fire and the Rose) if I had something to add to it. Must work on that. That’s Universalism, as in universal salvation, not denominational matters.Â
Be sure to give it and what’s linked a look.
Obijuan (Returning . . . .) wrote about the Service of the Living Tradition and then threw this out
What an absolutely boneheaded thing to say in that context as: (1) Many of us already are ordained, and (2) [WARNING: POLITY GEEKING AHEAD] congregational polity means the UUA doesn’t recognize ordinations. Period. That is the job […]
Michael L. Westmoreland-White (Levellers) — himself an academic theologian and Baptist minister’s husband — lists some women who blog academic theology. Or academic theology bloggers who are women. Or bloggers who happen to write about theology while being women in an academic way. Take your pick. (If you know of others, he’s taking additions […]
Jane R comments:
Wow, “the certainty of retribution.” Talk to us about how Universalists have understood this.
Gladly: I don’t do enough Universalist theology here. To catch everyone else up, that’s from 1904 Life Hymnal I wrote about yesterday.
This phrase was shorthand for what was in 1899 accepted as one of the five “essential principles […]
or trading in it –
is living into God’s action among the living.
G. O. (Leaving Munster; I’m not sure if he’s anonymous now) muses about what the ever-quoted Brian McLaren has said.
I have hundreds, and probably well over a thousand dollars’ worth, of eighteen to twentieth century Universalist imprints slowly gathered over the years. I got each new title as I could — first through specialist book dealers then eBay plus gifts — because they are so hard to come by, and one chance of buying […]
