Jane R comments: Wow, “the certainty of retribution.” Talk to us about how Universalists have understood this. Gladly: I don’t do enough Universalist theology here. To catch everyone else up, that’s from 1904 Life Hymnal I wrote about yesterday. This phrase was shorthand for what was in 1899 accepted as one of the five “essential… Continue reading “The certainty of retribution”
Category: Theology
More important than not believing in eternal hell . . .
or trading in it — is living into God’s action among the living. G. O. (Leaving Munster; I’m not sure if he’s anonymous now) muses about what the ever-quoted Brian McLaren has said.
Google Books “gift” to researchers, Universalists
I have hundreds, and probably well over a thousand dollars’ worth, of eighteen to twentieth century Universalist imprints slowly gathered over the years. I got each new title as I could — first through specialist book dealers then eBay plus gifts — because they are so hard to come by, and one chance of buying… Continue reading Google Books “gift” to researchers, Universalists
Overcoming Christmas overload, 1: Ramp up Advent
We know the drill. Christmas has become an emotional, financial and spiritual drag and a political football. Some well-meaning Christians want to decamp and reinvest the Epiphany — the older Christian celebration — with spiritual value and merriment. But I’m not quite ready for that. Other want to invest Advent with more worth, but it… Continue reading Overcoming Christmas overload, 1: Ramp up Advent
Relly’s Union available for download
I have been re-stocking UniversalistChurch.net with the hard-to-find documents that you were once able to find there — and then some. I had planned this big roll-out of James Relly’s 1759 masterwork Union or, a Treatise of the Consanguinity and Affinity between Christ and his Church as a PDF file, but it is long over… Continue reading Relly’s Union available for download
Presbyterian seminary publishes online “church and culture” magazine
I got on the mailing list for Columbia Theological Seminary (Flash required; bad bad bad!) of Decatur, Georgia more than a decade ago when I was looking for a theological school, and bless their hearts they’ve followed me for seven addresses since. Now they’re publishing a rather interesting looking online magazine called @ This Point… Continue reading Presbyterian seminary publishes online “church and culture” magazine
My only Da Vinci Code posting
A former parishioner loaned me his copy of The Da Vinci Code about three years ago; I got about thirty pages into it was bored yet irritated with it and returned it. This is disclose I never finished the book and don’t intend to see the film. It will pass soon enough. (Anyone still talking,… Continue reading My only Da Vinci Code posting
Intellectual honesty thanks to Debitage
I first met Stentor Danielson when he attended worship with my former parish. He’s moved away, but I still enjoy his blog, Debitage. Why? He makes me think. Just when I’ve gotten “too practical” for my own good, there are these philosophical — and especially the epistomological ones — postings that keep me from waltzing… Continue reading Intellectual honesty thanks to Debitage
Anglicans Online tie-in
Did anyone else see the Unitarian reference in the front-page story about heresies this week at AnglicansOnline.org? Fausto? Anglicans Online
Plow ahead, wash, rinse, repeat
Philocrites wrote What if we simply decided to plow ahead and, for once, simply ignored protestations of hurt feelings and creeping credalism? Here we are, attempting to do liberal theology; deal with it. I’ve been trying to do that for a few years now, and at the worst times have been subjected to trifling “are… Continue reading Plow ahead, wash, rinse, repeat