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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
Why Mark Driscoll is Damnably Wrong
This morning I glanced at the number of visitors that each of my blog posts has received over the last few months. In something that continues to be a cause of both frustration and curiosity to me, I once again … Continue reading
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Durham after a Light Snowfall
I took a break from my studies today to see what it was like after the first light snowfall of the season. Here are a few pictures.
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The Religious Magnetism of Bodies
In a post on the ever-stimulating Sociological Images blog, Donovan O Schaefer comments on the charismatic character of Tebow’s body and the manner in which it has become ‘a sort of theological battleground for broader religious and cultural forces’. He writes: … Continue reading
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Introversion and Why Evangelicalism is Doing It Wrong
Introversion In a recent interview for Scientific American, Susan Cain claims that American society is biased in favour of extroversion. Cataloguing some of the ways in which introverts can be marginalized and their skills underappreciated, she argues that this results … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Experience, Culture, The Church, The Sacraments, Theological, Worship
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How the Liberal Market Revolutionized our Understanding of Humanity
In The Making and Unmaking of Technological Society, Murray Jardine raises questions about the underlying anthropological assumptions of the market as it functions within liberal societies (I raise a slightly different set of questions about its anthropology of individual self-interest … Continue reading
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‘Symbol and Sacrament’ Chapter 7: Sacrament and Ethics
Symbol and Sacrament Posts: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2:I, Chapter 2:II, Chapter 3, Chapter 4:I, Chapter 4:II, Chapter 5, Chapter 6 Chauvet frames his seventh chapter with the question: ‘How can we avoid the temptation to oppose ethical practice and ritual practice without yielding to the reverse temptation … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, My Reading, Reviews, The Sacraments, Theological, Worship
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Daniell on Tyndale’s Style and Effect on the English Language
Via Daniel Stoddart comes this article on the effect of William Tyndale’s Bible translation upon the English language. David Daniell has a wonderful treatment of this in his tome, The Bible in English. Not only did Tyndale’s solitary work of … Continue reading
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‘Symbol and Sacrament’ Chapter 6: Scripture and Sacrament
Symbol and Sacrament Posts: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2:I, Chapter 2:II, Chapter 3, Chapter 4:I, Chapter 4:II, Chapter 5, Chapter 7 Having established a model for the structure of Christian identity in the previous chapter, Chauvet proceeds to explore the interrelationships of the various elements of the … Continue reading
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The Juvenilization of the Church
via Dr Jim West Does anyone have any thoughts on his thesis?
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Alastair's Adversaria 