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Contextualization, Theology and Pope Francis

Book: Living samong the Breakage: Contextual Theology-making and ex-Muslim Christians. Shoki Coe, 1973 and 1974, two articles in Theological Education.

Some context for those not in the know about the latest news:

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Calling for a major push toward developing a “fundamentally contextual theology, capable of reading and interpreting the Gospel in the conditions in which men and women live each day,” Pope Francis has approved new statutes for the Pontifical Theological Academy.

The academy was founded in 1718 to train theologians; the last revision of its statutes, by St. John Paul II in 1999, asked members to pursue “the principal mission of theology today,” which, he said, “consists in promoting dialogue between Revelation and the doctrine of the faith, and in offering an ever deeper understanding of it.”

In an apostolic letter issued “motu proprio,” on his own initiative, Nov. 1, Pope Francis said that in a “synodal, missionary and outgoing church,” theologians must also dialogue with other sciences and with members of other religions and that helping Catholics have a deeper understanding of the faith will be possible only if theology grapples with their questions and concerns. […]

Read it all HERE.

What attracts Muslims to the Christian faith?

Interview with Tat Stewart on *No Stranger*, his new book on life and ministry in Iran

The Reverend Ashton “Tat” Stewart has just published his memoir on his childhood growing up in Iran, his move back to the USA, and then God’s call for him and his wife to return to Iran. Get the book at Amazon in paperback or kindle format. The full title is: No Stranger: to Iran, its People, and its Church. Observations about how to work with Muslims and people in the Middle East.

God among the Elohim: A Sermon on Psalm 82 and Genesis 11

Zoraida’s Conversion in Don Quixote

A paper I gave at the Symposium on Mission and Religious Freedom at Fjellhaug College in Oslo, Norway. See additional notes at the YouTube page.

Fjellhaug in Oslo Norway, Sep 20, 2023

Introduction to Early Church History

Some time ago, I gave six introductory lectures on the history of the early Christian Church. The topics ranged from the selection of the New Testament canon to the rise of monasticism, from the triumph of the monarchial episcopal ecclesiology to the incorporation of Jews and Gentiles into one religious community.

Please leave any questions on my YouTube channel and I will answer them all.

How the whole thing startedOrigins of the Christian ChurchOf elders and bishopsCouncil of NicaeaChoosing the books in the New TestamentThe rise of monasticism

My son plays Mozart’s Sonata 16 (Facile)

This was all done during the Plague Year in Madrid, which was exceptionally draconian in stripping human beings of their freedom. So in one of these videos he’s in a music closet (more or less) and the next two playing on the electric piano in his room. It was what it was.

Welcome to Earth: Under New Management (a sermon on Psalm 82, Genesis 11, Isaiah 6, and Revelation 4)

It was a privilege to deliver the sermon on Sunday the 13th of aUgust at Immanuel Baptist Church, here in Madrid. The entire service was excellent, but this sermon beings at 42:13:

Paris from the Tour de Montparnasse, 360 degrees

A complete view of the cityscape of Paris from the Tower of Montparnasse.

Sainte-Chapel in Paris