Theology – Episcopal Cafe

The Christmas Revolution: NY Times op-ed on Christmas & the revolutionary nature of the incarnation

December 28, 2015 7 Comments

Image of Jesus and disciples from the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt

Writing in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times, Peter Wehner explores the once revolutionary but now widely accepted concepts which spring from Jesus as the physical incarnation of God.

Wehner cites the incarnation as being the break from the Platonic view of physical existence as illusory or false, and thereby affirming the goodness of creation and existence, while showing that humanity is created in the image of God; if […]

Christians are generally uninformed on transgender issues

November 13, 2015 2 Comments

Jonathan Merritt says that Christians need to get a clue about transgender issues and provides a useful introduction to gender identity issues and ways to think about gender theologically and biblically.

Is “this is the clear teaching of Scripture” an acceptable phrase?

October 26, 2015 93 Comments

Photo of emotional intelligence mind-map exercise via Tracy Rosen

Writing about emotional intelligence and the fundamentalist interpretation of sola scriptura, author Richard Beck asserts that the mark of a fundamentalist is the lack of awareness of their own hermeneutic.

Beck identifies several statements that demonstrate this; he cites “this is the clear teaching of Scripture” as a perfect example of someone failing to identify their own cognitive process at work, implying that the phrase should be verboten.

From his blog post:

I once quipped at […]

Rowan Williams on Laudato Si

September 25, 2015 6 Comments

Rowan Williams looks at Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, noting how when one looks at climate change, one must look at all of human society.

The legacy of proslavery theology, still with us today

August 17, 2015 3 Comments

Even though the majority of white people claim to oppose racism, white supremacy ignores the testimony and personal accounts of black experience, except when verified by white institutions or individuals.

The metaphysics of condiments

July 20, 2015 No Comments

From the pseudonym of “Gutbloom” comes this humorous attempt to rank condiments according to their divinity; inspired by the “neo-platonic metaphysic” of St. Augustine, the author explains what, precisely, makes mustard the holiest of holies, and mayonnaise suitable only for the Princes of Hell.

Poking fun at modern “listicles” and other web rankings, the author explains why they’ve ordered the list from top to bottom:

I’ve listed it from highest to lowest. Traditionally, it would be listed from lowest to highest. That’s […]

Many responses to marriage task force report

June 7, 2015 23 Comments

Here is a round-up of the several responses to The Task Force on the Study of Marriage.

Purity codes, progressive style

March 11, 2015 2 Comments

Richard Beck thinks about how the need to define our beliefs as both holy and pure is not limited to evangelicalism but shows up among progressives as well.

Did science make God honest?

February 27, 2015 3 Comments

Can God lie? Does God lie? And did science make God honest? And in making God honest, did science take away God’s power to speak?

Screenshot of video appearance of Stephen Fry, seated by a window, prepared to answer a question on The Meaning of Life broadcast

Stephen Fry describes God as monstrous in interview clip

February 2, 2015 6 Comments

Noted actor Stephen Fry appears in an episode of The Meaning of Life where he is asked a hypothetical question by presenter Gay Byrne. “Suppose it’s all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and you are confronted by God. What will Stephen Fry say to him, her, it?”

Fry responds with indignation, stating that he’d criticize God for the natural evils within the world. Fry explains that his atheism is founded not merely on the idea that there is […]

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