tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post2882950256816198537..comments2023-12-15T21:49:46.651+01:00Comments on Pluralist Speaks: Archbishops Disagree on Basic Beliefs...Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-37363482131565082622008-03-27T05:05:00.000+01:002008-03-27T05:05:00.000+01:00He could be close to Barth, if Hans W. Frei accura...He could be close to Barth, if Hans W. Frei accurately represents Barth in Frei's postmodern narrative of the biblical text without objective root. I often wonder though if Barth would agree with this approach. I actually think Williams is more positive about culture and religious culture, and you see it with him talking about other religions and indeed multiculturalism. Such is not Barth's position.<BR/><BR/>You say Christ appeared to Paul, calling and converting him, but then that you take the Christian witness as a whole. There is a contradiction there, and also the question has to be asked if it is taken as a whole then how is it rooted? If it is not rooted in history, for which individual events matter, then what is this 'theological space' and how does it operate? It's possible, but I don't know the difference between that and saying there is a tradition as a whole. What is an 'encounter' as a whole, for example? For me, the 500, or 120 in Acts, is one of those numbers that represents something and here it is the congregation, the faithful: that makes the 500/ 120 exist 'as a whole' and tales it out of history but there is a sense in which you seem to want it both ways. An 'encounter' that is its own evidence is a tradition, even a young and dynamic one.Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-20082599894134524332008-03-27T04:27:00.000+01:002008-03-27T04:27:00.000+01:00Williams is close to Barth, who stresses that the ...Williams is close to Barth, who stresses that the Bible presents humans as thoroughly mortal beings. The early Church believed that God was bringing abour a New Creation, calling the dead to life, and the things that are not into being. What empirical warrant did they have for this belief? Encounter with Christ in the Eucharist (perhaps the basis for the Emmaus story and the upper room appearances, and even the appearance to the 500 mentioned by Paul), the joy of being filled with the Holy Spirit, the belief in the forgiveness of sins in Jesus' name (Rom 3-8). Paul on the way to Damascus did not just see Christ, rather Christ appeared to him, taking the initiative, CALLING and CONVERTING him. This turn about in the lives of individuals and communities, not caught up in a dynamic Kingdom-oriented process, is another aspect of the empirical impact of the risen Christ. <BR/><BR/>Flimsy warrants? Does it all hang on too slender a thread? Well, the total NT witness seems a more solid basis for faith (coterminous as it is with the entirety of the Xtian experience) that the alleged empty grave and the attempt to take the mutually contradictory appearance-narratives literally.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-68611982865903468262008-03-25T17:16:00.000+01:002008-03-25T17:16:00.000+01:00Thank you. I've had to correct the error and it wa...Thank you. I've had to correct the error and it was offering him a rather grand status given his obvious ignorance of the use of any kind of scholarship.Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-60070261967510727432008-03-25T13:38:00.000+01:002008-03-25T13:38:00.000+01:00"Archbishop of Easter" is presumably a typo for Ar..."Archbishop of Easter" is presumably a typo for Archbishop of Sydney. His Easter Message certainly doesn't suggest he knows what Easter is all about.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe he should be translated to Easter Island. Preferably without a dug-out canoe.cryptogramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103991827347958855noreply@blogger.com