[ssf] some theology

@mp amparo2yo at telefonica.net
Tue Jul 26 12:13:10 BST 2005


Hello,
one interesting development, let's hope:



> PRESS RELEASE FROM: EKKLESIA DATE: 26 July 2005

> 
> CHRISTIANS EXPLORE LINKS BETWEEN DOCTRINE AND VIOLENCE
> 
> In the wake of public concerns about the relationship between
> religion and terror, the UK Christian think-tank Ekklesia is raising
> questions about how some church teaching about the death of Jesus
> could be linked to the approval of violence.
> 
> In a book called Consuming Passion: Why the Killing of Jesus Really
> Matters, due to be launched formally next month, a group of American
> and British writers suggest that some popular misunderstandings about
> the meaning of the Cross may reinforce conflict, division and
> suffering in today's world.
> 
> The book's editors, Ekklesia Co-Directors Simon Barrow and Jonathan
> Bartley, say that the collection of diverse essays shows that
> theology is not an obscure academic matter or an issue of concern
> only to a particular religious in-group.
> 
> "The recent bombings in London have shown that our ideas about the
> world and God can literally be a matter of life and death," says
> Simon Barrow, who until recently worked for the official ecumenical
> body, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.
> 
> He adds: "The problem of religiously sanctioned violence isn't just a
> challenge to Muslims, but to all people of faith - and not least to
> Christians, given that the reality of a man put to death is central
> to their imagery and doctrine."
> 
> One of the contributors to Consuming Passion is Baptist minister
> Steve Chalke, who has been in hot water with some evangelical
> Christians recently for questioning the doctrine of 'penal
> substitution'.
> 
> In its crude form, this says that God inflicted death and suffering
> on an innocent Jesus to 'atone' for the sins of human beings, because
> God requires a price paid in blood before being able to forgive.
> 
> (... more to be read at Ekklesia site)

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