Month: March 2011

  • Ancient Possibly Christian Books Found In Jordan

    70 metal bound books have been found in a cave in Jordan by a Bedouin. These books appear to date to the first century, and may be the oldest collection of texts in existence. Written on lead leaves, no bigger than credit-cards, these 70 books could reveal a wealth of information about 1st Century Christianity,…

  • Justified by Faith

    The theme Justified by Faith has been very much on my mind recently, with it coming to the fore as I re-read Romans in the context of a Biblical Studies class on the book. Part of the class was to use E.P. Saunder’s approach to Romans to rediscover a more authentic reading of Romans that…

  • The Carpathian Conundrum

    The BBC has recently launched a new Science Fiction series called Outcasts. It starts 5 years after a colonisation expedition has arrived on a new planet that has been called Carpathia, after the ship that showed up to rescue the survivors of the Titanic. Carpathia only has one major town, called Forthaven. The society is…

  • Jesus Christ : the Liminal Man

    When reading Bishop Spong’s book, something struck me about an idea he had put forward of the river Jordan. That Jordan River was also thought to offer a door way into the promised land where God was believed to reign as king. [*] The Jordan, then is a liminal place. A Place on the boundaries.…

  • Bishop Spong : Removing the image of the Divine Rescuer

    In his book, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Bishop John Shelby Spong outlines many of the problems which he sees in modern-day Christianity. Though I agree with the statement, I’m not sure that I agree with his conclusions. Bishop Spong seems to want to remove the Theistic aspect from Christianity, which while I can…

  • A Breif Outline for a Baptismal Liturgy in the 4th Century

    For an essay that I have to write, I decided that it would be easier to do if I actually had a liturgy from the 4th Century to read from, so that I can make the comparisons. I found that there are many reconstructions, but I wanted one that used the writings of St. Cyril…