Rowan Williams on the riskiness of revelation The touch of God is dangerous, in that it can be a light too sharp to be borne without hurt or breakage; and when the perception is skewed and redirected, it may run close to the destructive and the hellish. Jonathan Smith, the great anthropologist of religion at Chicago, remarked about […]
Rowan Williams on “the loneliness of each one of us” The following is the opening of a characteristically excellent sermon from Rowan Williams. I wish I could post the sermon in full, but I’m sure the publisher would frown on that. It’d be worth seeking the text out to see how Rowan concludes the reflections he starts […]
Rudolf Bultmann on how God speaks through the Bible The question of how God speaks to us through the Bible has no sense unless we ask at the same time what God says to us through the Bible. [166] […] God’s voice sounds from beyond the world. If we wish to hear it, we must […]
Bruce McCormack on Barth’s case against Prolegomena Secularism as an argument for the necessity of apologetics was encountered by Barth in 1932 in virtually the same form in which it was expressed by Gilkey, Ogden, et al. Barth wrote, ‘At this point the customary procedure, followed with new zeal in modern work, is to indicate the […]
Two Approaches to Ecumenism A. Gerhard Forde … the ELCA statement on ecumenism seems more geared towards what we ought to be prepared to give up — more interested in selling the farm than in contributing from its bounty. What, after all, do Lutherans have to contribute to this postliberal, postmodern age? Well, what is it […]
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