Entries from January 2007

Rauschenbusch "Why I am a Baptist"

Date January 23, 2007

Prelude
Why am I a Baptist? Well, at the outset, because VV my father was one. He was a Lutheran minister in Germany; he came to America, got into contact with the Baptists, found in their teachings the truths that he had been groping for and, under great loss of position and trouble of soul, became [...]

Twelve propositions on same-sex relationships and the church

Date January 22, 2007

This is a post over at Faith and Theology by Kim Fabricius. I liked the post and the dialog so much I thought I would pass it on.paxclick me!

Rauschenbusch on Kingdom Centrality for Jesus and Church

Date January 19, 2007

“Jesus always moved with a purpose and his purpose was the Kingdom of God…the social redemption of the entire human race on earth. If we regard him in any sense as our leader and master, we cannot treat as secondary what to him was the essence of his mission. If we regard him [...]

Rauschenbusch on getting Jesus wrong

Date January 19, 2007

“Imagine Jesus, with the dust of Galilee on his sandals, coming into the church of St. Sophia in Constantinople in the fifth century, listening to dizzy doctrinal definitions about the relation of the divine and human in his natures, watching priests performing the gorgeous acts of worship, reciting long and set prayers, and offering his [...]