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Is Protestantism Good? - Christianity Today
Beth Felker Jones's book charitably holds up its merits against other traditions. Illustration by Christianity Today / Source Images: Getty, IVP In an age which often seems characterized by vitriol, division, and polarization among Christians, books such as Beth Felker Jones's Why I Am Protestant offer a welcome respite and compelling counterexample to online shouting matches.
Responding to Toxic Speech with Thomas Aquinas
Editor’s Note: This essay continues our series of essays marking the 800th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Aquinas. The 800th centenary of St. Thomas Aquinas’s birth has been marked by global gatherings and conferences celebrating the long-lasting theological and philosophical significance of the Doctor Communis. This influence is not limited to Roman Catholic theology. Aquinas’s influence has been deeply significant for much of Anglican theological development.
Introducing Christian Scholar’s Review’s Spring Themed Issue: Virtues in the Practice of Business
In October 2023, twenty-five theological ethicists, business ethicists, economists, and philosophers gathered in New Orleans to explore the importance of virtue in business ethics for Christians. The symposium was hosted by Loyola’s Center for Ethics and Economic Justice and funded by generous support from the Kern Foundation and Seattle Pacific University’s Center for Faithful Business.
Theme Editor’s Preface: Virtues in the Practice of Business
Does virtue and character matter in business? Can workplaces be transformed by the caliber of people present? What insights do scripture and the Christian tradition of theological and philosophical reflection offer for the challenges of the modern workplace? In October 2023, twenty-five theological ethicists, business ethicists, economists, and philosophers gathered in New Orleans to explore the importance of virtue in business ethics for Christians.
Bonhoeffer: o Advento é como uma cela de prisão
Em 21 de novembro de 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer escreveu uma carta da prisão de Tegel. “Uma cela de prisão como esta é uma boa analogia para o Advento”, disse ele. “Espera-se, confia-se, faz-se isto ou aquilo — em última análise, coisas insignificantes —, a porta fica trancada e só pode ser aberta pelo lado de fora”. A comparação entre o Advento e uma cela de prisão pode parecer estranha. Evoca impotência, talvez até desesperança.
Francisco Suárez, Self-Interest, and Natural Law
Abstract In this symposium contribution, I argue that Francisco Suárez’s understanding of the community’s development of “permissive natural law” related to economic activity provides a useful and creative interjection into discussions of the goals of businesses and economic activity. While good civil laws can provide a baseline for economic justice and the common good, they cannot replace the necessary communal discernment of the good made possible by the market.
Watch With Me
By Elisabeth Rain Kincaid Jesus said, wait with me. But the disciples slept. Mary Oliver’s haunting poem, “Gethsemane,” contrasts the faithfulness of elements of nature to watch with Christ in the Garden with the failure of the disciples who succumb to sleep. The cricket, the stars, the wind, the lily, the rose, even the green grasses wake and wait with him. Even beyond the Garden, elements of nature succor and support him.
Bonhoeffer: Advent Is Like a Prison Cell
On November 21, 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a letter from Tegel Prison. “A prison cell like this is a good analogy for Advent,” he said. “One waits, hopes, does this or that—ultimately negligible things—the door is locked and can only be opened from the outside.” The comparison between Advent and a prison cell may seem strange. It evokes powerlessness, perhaps even hopelessness. However, it is this particular type of waiting that Bonhoeffer believes best prepares us for Christ’s coming.
Christianity’s defense against tyrants
Is the ruler or head of the executive branch subject to limitations placed on his actions by the law? This question has become more relevant since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the presidents of the United States have claimed a widening swath of executive privilege and broader exemptions from civil and international law.
Why Easter Joy Belongs to the Melancholy
Easter joy has been harder to come by this year. Between the growing ugliness of American politics and the acrimony within the church body, I’ve found it harder to anticipate looking up from the broken body of my Lord to rejoice this Sunday in the resurrected and ascended Christ. When I shared my struggle with a good friend, he suggested I revisit a collection of sermons that the 19th-century priest John Henry Newman preached in Oxford in response to the challenges of his own day.
I Inherited a Failed Sunday School. Here’s How It Flourish......
When I married a priest, I cut a deal with him. “No children’s ministry,” I made him swear. “Not now, not ever.” At the time we got married, my husband was serving at a large, wealthy, urban parish where the staff was stacked with priests and lay employees. While I’m sure my presence as a children’s ministry volunteer would have been welcomed, there was no need or expectation of my presence. “No children’s ministry,” I repeated. And he, confident of our future vocational paths, agreed.
Bonhoeffer: Advent Is Like a Prison Cell
On November 21, 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a letter from Tegel Prison. “A prison cell like this is a good analogy for Advent,” he said. “One waits, hopes, does this or that—ultimately negligible things—the door is locked and can only be opened from the outside.” The comparison between Advent and a prison cell may seem strange. It evokes powerlessness, perhaps even hopelessness. However, it is this particular type of waiting that Bonhoeffer believes best prepares us for Christ’s coming.
Convention, Pope Francis, and the Death Penalty
By Elisabeth Kincaid This summer, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church made a number of theological decisions that may result in greater distance from our Anglican brethren and from some of our ecumenical partners, including the Roman Catholic Church. Given this new distance, it is worth pausing to celebrate one important theological question on which Episcopalians and Roman Catholics moved closer together: opposition to the death penalty.
With Great Freedom Comes Responsibility
In this Easter season, examples of freedom have been all around me. In attending my first Easter Vigil since I had children, I was powerfully reminded of the spiritual freedom that Easter brings. The Exsultet, proclaimed at the beginning of the vigil, reminds the congregation that the fulfillment of the freedom of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt is Christ’s resurrection, which secures our freedom from the bondage of sin and death.
Cultivating virtue
This is the conclusion of “Obedience the Remedy.” Part one is here. Newman not only claims that we can develop infused acquired virtue through our Spirit-inspired efforts, but also lays out a program for how this can be accomplished in the companion work to the Lectures on Justification, the Plain and Parochial Sermons. These sermons, also given at St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, preceded the lectures, and were published in 1834, 1835, and 1836.
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