Thursday, August 01, 2002

On establishing an accurate text and making a good translation

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Since the 1950s there has been a tremendous explosion in translations and paraphrases of the Bible.   Not a few people, who use one or ano...

Divine Worship and the Numinous

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There are various elements which go into the making of divine worship by an assembled congregation. Yet with these is needed "the sens...
Wednesday, July 31, 2002

RESSOURCEMENT, AGGIORNAMENTO & ZEITGEIST

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What do these three strange words, from three different languages, have in common? Answer. They all have to be used when describing the “lit...
Tuesday, July 30, 2002

Rowan Williams, homosexuality, serial monogamy & Evangelicals

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One of the major reasons why Evangelicals in the USA, Australia and Britain have been critical of the appointment of Rowan Douglas Williams ...
Monday, July 29, 2002

Protestants thankful to the Vatican!

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We, being mere classical Protestants, reformed Catholics and Anglicans, who favor the traditional language of prayer/worship, greet with ent...
Sunday, July 28, 2002

How to write to the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Douglas Williams

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People have asked me for his address so that they may write to him and tell him that they are praying for him and his family and his ministr...
Saturday, July 27, 2002

Welshman Chosen to Lead the Anglicans: Opposes Abortion, Wants to See Women Ordained

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(Zenit, R C newagency in Rome, reporting the choice of Rowan Williams) LONDON, JULY 23, 2002 ( Zenit.org ).- The man named as the next A...

Archbishops - who are they?

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(In the context of all the discussion about Dr Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, people have asked me about archbishops. Here ...
Friday, July 26, 2002

"To naturalise the supernatural and to humanise the divine" -- Secular humanism and the Public Language of Prayer

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"To naturalise the supernatural and to humanise the divine" is one way of stating the general purpose of what has been called ...

Is "Contemporary Language" neutral?

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(responses invited to this tract to Peter@toon662.fsnet.co.uk ) The bishops and liturgists, who produced and commended the new forms of l...