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December 2004

Virtual prayer room for the Asian tsunami crisis

December 30, 2004

Messy Christian a good blogging friend of mine who is herself Malaysian has opened a virtual prayer room. I would encourage you to go and read it.

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Neo-liberalism or postconservative evangelicalism?

December 30, 2004

It is always good to allow people to speak for themselves so as the next post in my series on neo-liberalism with thanks to every thought captive I am going to give some exerts from a book. Justin Taylor has done a great job of doing this in “Reclaiming the Center” stating that “a significant [...]

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More on God and suffereing

December 30, 2004

The World of Sven: cites the psalms and argues for the need to permit questioning of God whilst still trusting that he is loving.

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More on Neo-liberalism and biblical inerrancy

December 30, 2004

Evangelicals in the Dock states open theists who would fit my definition of neo-liberals cannot believe in biblical inerrancy- Both Sanders and Pinnock hold to open theism, a form of theology that posits a God who is not omniscient concerning the free actions of human beings. As was pointed out in the ETS meeting’s floor [...]

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Parableman, sorrry make that Wink thinks he is NOT a neo-liberal after all

December 29, 2004

Wink believes he is Not a Neo-Liberal. I am not so sure, but look forward to his attempts to answer at least one or two of my challenges.

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Picking up the neo-liberal bait

December 29, 2004

I am delighted that even in this holiday season when I was fully anticipating somewhat of a lull in blogging the bait is being taken up at least by some. I believe that the recent tragedy has made these issues all the more important. Some of the people who I call neo-liberal probably have a [...]

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Can anyone explain Tsunamis?

December 29, 2004

Matthew Kettle poses the question How can religious people explain something like this? which to some degree I anticipated in my posts Jesus’ reply to a disaster of his day and Tsunami’s and the sovreignty of God- where is God when it hurts? These are very important questions. We could of course quite simply dispense [...]

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Purpose driven blogging

December 29, 2004

Well, I have dug out my Rick Warren book- the purpose driven life and decided it was time to start reading it again. Many of my friends have been helped by this book, and I will be reading it to learn whatever I can. I very much liked Rick’s previous book on the church, and [...]

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Why "neo-liberal" ?

December 29, 2004

I thought I would defend my new nickname “neo-liberalism” by looking at the definition of classic “liberalism” from a theological perspective. The concise Oxford Dictionary states theological liberalism is “regarding many traditional beliefs as dispensable, invalidated by modern thought, or liable to change”. Since neo-liberalism indeed does just that but with post-modern thought and does [...]

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Emergent – surely not all bad?

December 28, 2004

Whilst it is clear from the UK website that there is a close association with Steve Chalke, recently criticised by the UK Evangelical Alliance, I think it is important not to throw out everything that the “emergent” movement are saying. Tony Campallo in a recent article stated that the movement expresses what I call “progressive [...]

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Truth or neo-liberalism?

December 28, 2004

I missed this great post over at the Evangelical Outpost. The absense of absolute truths is another post-modern statement that might be appealing to some “neo-liberals”. I have been thinking about this a lot lately, and I have come to what some of these Christians might say was a simplistic concusion- Truth matters. End of [...]

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Jesus’ reply to a disaster of his day…….

December 28, 2004

We must not fall into the age old trap of thinking that the recent disaster was a specific judgement of God on either the victims or the world. Jesus made it very clear his view on that when asked about a disaster of his time. In fact he made us realise that the reality is [...]

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A neo-liberal TULIP

December 28, 2004

I recently blogged through the TULIP acronym and decided it was all about Jesus. I was intrested to notice that Brian Maclaren, who could perhaps fit into my new description “neo-liberals” has totally rewritten the TULIP acronym but still wants to call himself (like a possibly neo-liberal correspondent of mine on email) “Reformed”. I am [...]

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Tsunami’s and the sovreignty of God- where is God when it hurts?

December 28, 2004

Our holiday’s have been interupted by news of one of the world’s worst disasters in recent history. Even though the death toll of the recent earthquate and tsunami are continuing to rise the BBC makes it clear that this is far from the worlds worst catastrophe. That epitaph probably goes to the flood of 1887 [...]

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Happy Christmas eve

December 24, 2004

Like most bloggers, I intend to do as little blogging as possible in the next few days. Christmas is a time to share with family thats what I intend to do. Even now the family is calling for my assistance. Don’t think that my neo-liberal discussions are over, i will allow some time for them [...]

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Carnival of the Reformation II

December 21, 2004

JOLLYBLOGGER has brought together a great collection of posts on the centrality of Christ. I would urge my neo-liberal readers to read them all, and plan to do so myself later today God willing. This Christmas may Christ truly be in the centre of our celebrations

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How do the Neo-liberals explain Nahum 1?

December 20, 2004

I have coined the phrase neo-liberals as I believe from what I have heard so far that there is a new move to make the church somehow more acceptable to today’s culture. To preach what I might call Christianity lite (as in diet Coke). Christianity with certain baggage dumped conveniently by the side of the [...]

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Surely the neo-liberals can do better than this?

December 19, 2004

Stuart Murray Williams was a speaker in defence of Steve Chalke before he was censored by the EA. I thought I would read his article and give you the chance to- it is of course only fair having questioned (as has the EA) whether it is possible to take his view of the atonement and [...]

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Its all about you Jesus……calvinism and worship

December 18, 2004

Well, this Christmas the carnival of the reformation has asked us to post about the centrality of Christ the “sola christus”. This is a request I am only too happy to comply with and helps bring a number of threads together that I have been posting on lately. The last thing I posted was a [...]

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A personal Christmas message and seasonal greeting…..

December 18, 2004

This post is predominantly for anyone who in the run up to Christmas does what I just did and trys to google for an old friend. I found his website and dropped him an email. So anyone who actually knows us and stumbles across this site here is my news! Some of this may be [...]

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