Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
There are two threads in the news these days that illustrate where our "Western civilisation" (which at this stage is neither) is going. As is usually the case, "God, gays and guns" are at the centre of the problem, but not in the venues they're normally associated with. Let's start with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin …
Continue reading "Our Insane "Civilisation": John Kerry and Justin Welby"
Anyone who blogs has persistent commenters. Last year my "top" commenter was one David Lloyd-Jones, a Canadian who took exception to a great deal of what I wrote (although not everything he read). Lloyd-Jones found me via my series of my business dealings in China in the early 1980's. He himself has had an interesting …
Timothy Fountain, with some help from Rod Dreher, lays it out: There are going to be Christians and non-Christians in America. Nominal Christianity has no future now that various cultural props are gone. Christians will have to be disciples of Jesus, not members of clubs based on old ethnic, neighborhood and family functions. Which means …
Some people will write anything to fill up server space: With FOX News seeking to expose those who refuse to say "Merry Christmas" as secular collaborators to the War on Christmas, I confess that I am confused. FOX holds itself up as the network that stands by traditional values defending America and faith from heresies …
Now that my serialised posting of My Lord and My God is done, we can tackle what is, for Anglicans at least, the obvious question: what relationship does this have with the Sydney Anglicans' contention that subordination does, in fact exist in the Trinity? This has been batted around since the issue first hit the …
Continue reading "Why Sydney Anglican Subordinationism is Lame"
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. We have come a long way in our theological adventure concerning the deity of Christ and the nature of the Godhead. Our friends from the Watchtower who have followed us this far are probably glad that such a trip is finally coming to …
Continue reading "My Lord and My God: The End of the Journey"
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. In the course of our discussion we have made reference to a lot of history surrounding the original Arian controversy. It took nearly a century to sort things out on this. Organisationally the Watchtower is separate from the Arian churches of long ago. …
He's made quite the splash at GAFCON II: The Archbishop of Canterbury offered his qualified personal endorsement to Gafcon today, telling the congregation of All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi his vision for the future of the Anglican Communion was of a Bible-based church dedicated to mission and evangelism – goals shared by the Gafcon movement …
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. Having cleared up the matter of the Son being “created” or more informatively “generated” we must turn to the problem of the Son being God and subordinate to the Father at the same time. Like the generation of the Son, this is a …
Continue reading "My Lord and My God: Divinity and Infinity"
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. We have come a long way through a complicated part of church history to stand where we do. We should note, however, that our main purpose is not a history lesson but to get at the truth of a very important part of …
