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Common Sense from Imago Dei
2007-10-19 15:13:00 Here's a short clip from Rick Mckinley's take on the future of the emerging church:"There will be important contributions made to theological and ecclesiological work. However if we insist that this young emerging church declare their college major right now, we may be killing the very thing that God is doing by putting a yoke upon them that God did not ask them to carry, but was one that we invented out of the fear of what they might become.""Perhaps God is emerging something that is counter cultural to the way we have been doing it. He may be bringing about something that is seemingly small and insignificant but that will over time grow into something richer and fuller and more transformational than we have seen in some time.We will never get to see it however, if we are impatient with the process, if we don?t have time or..................... grace to allow it to emerge..."Here's the link to the post... "My Thoughts on the Emerging Church - Rick McKinleyThanks - Emerging Grace
Theodore of Mopsuestia on the imago Dei
2007-05-03 23:01:00 (Here is a copy of a short research assignment I had to do for my Church History class. I found McLeod's book The Image of God in the Antiochene Tradition for $15 at Half Price Books and Michael recommended me to write my paper on Theodore and his understanding of the imago Dei, which I found quite fascinating. I hope this short summary sparks an interest in some of you to read more about Theodore and the Antiochene Fathers, whose theology has helped me strengthen my personal relationship with Christ.)Theodore of Mopsuestia (ca. 350-428) was a prominent representative of the Antiochene school during the late fourth and early fifth centuries and, as such, ?gives a maximum value to the humanity assumed by the divine Logos and its capacity to operate autonomously? as noted by the Encyclopedia of the Early Church. During his lifetime, Theodore was highly esteemed and admired by his contemporaries both within and without the Syrian Church, but it was not until the Second Council of Cons...
Abortion and the imago Dei
2007-04-25 16:26:00 And so they passed it. Abortion in Mexico City has now become legal. The second-largest Catholic country in the world has legalized the killing of human beings in its own capital. The same human beings that in the beginning God created in His image.What is disconcerting about the abortion debate is that there is no agreement as to when life actually starts, so people who support abortion do not see themselves invested emotionally in these newly conceived human beings. When we talk about other life issues, such as euthanasia, war, or even the death penalty, we may not find as much controversy, because we can see the elderly or the soldier or the prisoner having lived their lives and continuing to do so: they breathe, move, eat, talk, feel, love, cry... As a result, there is no question as to whether they are truly human beings, basically, because we can witness their existence. The main argument of many in the pro-choice party is that embryos are not human beings, perhaps because we ... |
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