Theology

Who or What Is God?

Peter Baksa | Posted 05.26.2012

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What is the story you are telling yourself? How does this story keep you stuck, fearful, angry and arguing for more of the same?

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New Research Hints At 'Underpinnings' Of Religious Faith

| Greg Miller | Posted 04.30.2012

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Many people with religious convictions feel that their faith is rock solid. But a new study finds that prompting people to engage in analytical thinki...

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The God Hypothesis

Victor Stenger | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: American Theocracy, Religion, Religion and Science, New Atheism, Atheist, God, Atheism, Theology, Atheists, Theocracy, Faith, Belief in God, Science and Religion, Science News

The gods worshipped by billions either exist or they do not. And those gods, if they exist, must have observable consequences. Thus, the question of their existence is a legitimate scientific issue that has profound import to humanity.

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Jesus' Death As Sacrifice?

Greg Carey | Posted 05.13.2012

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There's a problem with penal substitution. Biblical sacrifices do not represent human attempts to purchase forgiveness; instead, they offer a ritual means of acknowledging the costliness of sin and alienation from God.

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The Gospel Redefined

Carl Medearis | Posted 05.11.2012

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I don't want to redefine salvation. But I do want us to redefine the Gospel. It's a person to be followed. To believe in. To love and worship. Not a religion. Not even ours.

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New Atheists Promote Bible Study?

Rev. Michael Dowd | Posted 05.07.2012

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The brutality of ancient scripture is indeed an inconvenient truth -- a truth that outspoken atheists are all too happy to point out.

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Santorum's Augustinian Theology

Jay Rubenstein | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Theology, St. Augustine, Free Will, Obama, Religious Persecution, Religion and Sexuality, Religion and Politics, Rick Santorum, Rick Santorum 2012, Religion News

In the eyes of Augustine and his intellectual heirs, the concept of "liberty" was closely intertwined with free will. It is the classic theological question: If God is omniscient and omnipotent, can human beings truly be called free?

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Santorum 'Theology' Quip a Sign of Fear-Based GOP Politics

Brian Normoyle | Posted 04.20.2012

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More and more GOP politicians are incapable of simply disagreeing intellectually with an opponent. Instead, they ground their opposition in innuendo, name-calling and flagrant lying to drive a false narrative born of suspicion and fear.

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Mourning John Hick: One Of The Greatest Theologians Of Our Time

Joe Winkler | Posted 04.15.2012

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Hick taught instead of preached ... Hick freed so many of us from the chains of our dogma to embrace our fellow human beings.

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Maintaining A Relationship With God When Your Life Is Intolerable

Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs | Posted 04.02.2012

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God is there to help us get through those challenges, not to inflict them.

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How The Placebo Effect Proves That God Exists

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.01.2012

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We can't find God, because, paradoxically, we are already the God that we are seeking.

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Which God? The Real Difference Between Evangelical And Liturgical Churches

Ben Griffith | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Bill Maher, Theology, Liturgical, God, Tim Tebow, Evangelicalism, Catholic Protestant Church, Liturgical Church, Evangelical Church, Evangelical Christianity, Christianity, Evangelical Liturgy, Religion News

But what I want the "Bill Maher"s of the world to know is that the evangelicals' God is not the best form of Christianity.

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Broken In Fact, Beloved Indeed: Meditating On Sin At The End Of The Year

Lisa Anderson | Posted 02.27.2012

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I began to starve myself to death, and with an experience of sickness that infiltrated into every fiber of my physical, mental and spiritual being. 'What is sin' and 'what does it mean to be a sinner' became intensely personal questions for me.

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The Day I Lost God

Dori Hartley | Posted 02.20.2012

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On this one particular day, I saw something that was unintentionally broadcast, a flaw in the message, an undercover revelation. I witnessed a crack in the invisible something.

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Eucharistic Adoration: A Radical Devotion

Joseph Amodeo | Posted 02.04.2012

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Kneeling before the Eucharist we prayed in silence, chanted O Salutaris and Tantum Ergo, but more importantly we became aware of the world around us. In this way, we united ourselves not only with Christ, but also with all humanity.

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Three Cups Of Lies: How Much Do Facts Matter?

Christian Piatt | Posted 01.16.2012

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We're obsessed in today's world with facts. Every syllable uttered by people in positions of power is put under a microscope, and we, the general public, love nothing more than to have subterfuge reveal in the media spotlight.

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Jesus, Bigotry And The Canaanite Woman

Christian Piatt | Posted 01.12.2012

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Most Christians opt for one of these interpretations anyway because they can't imagine a third option: that Jesus was being a jerk.

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Deconstructing Harry Jackson: Is Jim Wallis' Ideology Really "The Doctrine of Devils"?

Timothy King | Posted 12.21.2011

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"I don't think Bishop Jackson is offended by my ideology but by scripture itself. If he wants to toss out what the Bible has to say about wealth and poverty he might as well toss out the whole book..."

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Theology Professor Says Earthlings Are 'Ready To Share A Pew With Aliens'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 12.10.2011

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If it turns out that Earthlings aren't alone in the universe and contact is eventually made between us and an extraterrestrial race, would we actually...

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No Cause to Dispute Einstein -- Part 2

Victor Stenger | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Theology, Einstein, Faster-Than-Light, Causality, Technology News

Causality is still a useful concept in all branches of science including physics and chemistry, as well as everyday life. But we also cannot assume that it is a universal principle that applies in all circumstances.

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Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God

Eliot Daley | Posted 11.30.2011

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We are smothering God. And our church. We're engaged in an unholy combination of implicit theocide and communal suicide.

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Review: A Public Faith, by Miroslav Volf

Ryan J. Bell | Posted 10.18.2011

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In his latest volume, Yale theologian Miroslav Volf puts his finger on one of the most relevant and hotly contested subjects in our world today -- the role of faith in public life.

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Wall Street Bankers 'Answer Call' Of New Careers

Reuters | Lauren Tara LaCapra | Posted 10.17.2011

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(Reuters) - In his 23 years as a banker, Adam Greene trotted the globe, closing billions of dollars' worth of deals for some of the world's biggest ba...

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Everything Came from Nothing

Victor Stenger | Posted 09.12.2011

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The theological claim that science cannot describe the origin of the universe and its laws in purely natural terms is refuted by the existence of plausible scenarios consistent with all knowledge that are fully worked out mathematically and published in reputable journals.

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Harry Potter And Christian Theology

Danielle Tumminio | Posted 09.06.2011

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Between 2,000 years of theologians and seven volumes of J.K. Rowling's nuanced prose, there is more than enough fodder for discussion. Consider, for instance, whether there's a God-figure in the series.

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