Robert Jenson on resurrection We must ask, What are we necessarily affirming about Jesus when we say that he, unexpectedly, lives? What is the basic difference between a living person and a dead one? And surely we must say: the decisive difference between a living person and a dead one is that the former can […]
Peter Winch on Wittgenstein on courage in philosophy “You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.” [from Culture and Value, p. 52e] [Winch’s commentary:] It is striking and important that he [Wittgenstein] uses an “ethical” concept courage […]
Telford Work on scripture as the church’s language There is perhaps no adequate way to condense the main dimensions of Scripture’s relationship to Jesus Christ. But since twentieth-century philosophy’s linguistic turn, the term language has acquired a richness that makes it an appropriate term. Scripture is Jesus’ heritage, his horizon, his formation, his practice, his authority, […]
Austin Farrer on petitionary prayer It is difficult to keep grace, not to get it, and there is always more. There are other things more genuinely difficult in prayer; for sometimes we are deeply concerned to have what is not ready set out for us to carry away, such as health in sickness, success in […]
Rowan Williams writes to St Augustine What everyone remembers, of course, is the things you got wrong – or the things we’re quite sure you got wrong. How you painted yourself into a corner over predestination, God deciding before all time who was to go to heaven and who not. And women; we get very […]
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