Fulcrum Book Review:‘Simply Jesus’ by Tom Wright by James Mercer Tom Wright’s new book ‘Simply Jesus’ has been referenced in the ongoing Forum conversation ‘Protest@ St Paul’s. Here James Mercer attempts a thumb-nail synopsis of the book, in the hope that that it will encourage us to engage with Tom Wright’s challenging and fantastically exciting … Continue Reading
Faithfulness Matters Bible Study The Patriarch, his wife, the Pharaoh and the slave by Jody Stowell ‘The Glory of God is a human being fully alive’ IRENAEUS The above quotation from the early church is one of my favourites and it seemed right to use this as the basis from which I wrote a Bible … Continue Reading
Inaugural lecture at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews 26th October 2011 The four gospels stand magisterially at the head of the canon and the centre of early Christianity. They are remarkable documents. If they had been lost for centuries, and then dug up last year in the sands of Egypt, they would be … Continue Reading
The Results of Praying for Evangelical Scholarship by Gordon Kuhrt Co-published with the Church of England Newspaper, with permission 19th August 2011 In the 1940s and '50s, some thoughtful Evangelical leaders encouraged prayer for a renewal of Evangelical scholarship, especially in the areas of biblical studies and biblical theology. Liberal theology seemed to reign unchallenged. … Continue Reading
Launch of Tom Wright for Everyone: Putting the Theology of N.T. Wright into practice in the Local Church by Stephen Kuhrt On Tuesday 19th July at Christ Church, New Malden, Stephen Kuhrt gave a talk on his book Tom Wright for Everyone and then answered questions about it. The questions included his response to the … Continue Reading
by Colin Buchanan (click to read foreword, chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, chapter four) Introduction: The origin of today’s Trinitarianism It has become my habit to enquire of clergy, ordinands, lay leaders and adult confirmation candidates why they are trinitarians. They usually find the question disconcerting, but patient persistence starts to yield a clear … Continue Reading
‘Have you understood all this?’ Reflections on Matthew 12: 31 – 52 ‘have you understood all this?’ It seems to me that it is quite a bold reply that the disciples give to this question that Jesus asks, right at the end of the text in Matthew, which some of us will have had read … Continue Reading
by Gavin Reid (click to read foreword, chapter one, chapter two, chapter three) Two recently published, and very significant, books about evangelism bemoan the lack of contact between those who enthuse about evangelism and those who take theology seriously. William Abraham opens his crucial study The Logic of Evangelism with the words: ‘One of the … Continue Reading
Sermon given at Matins on Sunday 14 November 2010 14 November 2010 at 10:00 am by The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon in Residence in partnership with Westminster Abbey Over the four weeks of November, in the sermons at Morning Prayer, I am reflecting on some of the great themes in the writing of John … Continue Reading
an edited version of a sermon preached at the leavers’ service, Trinity College, Bristol, 4 June 2011 also published in Church of England Newspaper, 8th July 2011 Introduction In Alan Bennett’s play, Forty Years On (1968), there is an intriguing dialogue between Lady Dundown and her butler: Lady Dundown: I see the Dean of Windsor … Continue Reading