A pertinent and challenging discussion of the Baptist Union of Great Britain Declaration of Principle by Stephen J Roe – well worth a read! The Authority of Christ, the Holy Scriptures and the Baptist Union today The recent process regarding… Read More »The Authority of Christ, the Holy Scriptures and the Baptist Union today
Part 7 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman In the preceding part I wrote that conflicts churches are not so much accidents that can be prevented with good… Read More »We Are Responsible Persons
Part 6 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman In the preceding parts we dwelt at length on conflicts in church history. Someone will say, ‘But that is church… Read More »The Role of Conflict in the Salvation History of the Old Testament
Part 5 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman International Baptists The first Baptist congregations appeared in the early 17th century. They arose out of a conflict in the… Read More »The Baptist Movement is also Rooted in Conflict
Part 4 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman We turn our attention to intra-ecclesiastical conflicts, first of all to that between Catholicism and Protestantism. Protestantism: born of conflict… Read More »The Conflict Between Rome and the Reformation
Part 3 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman Sometimes you have to go through a conflict with each other in order to move forward. From the history of… Read More »The Conflict Between Israel and the Church
Part 2 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman A traditional Roman Catholic priest celebrates mass. Dressed in a priestly robe, he solemnly pronounces Latin formulas and performs ancient… Read More »Denial of Conflict
Part 1 of 7 from ‘A Short Theology of Conflict in Churches’ by Olof H. de Vries and translated by Pieter Lalleman Unfortunately, the reality of conflicts in the Church of Jesus Christ cannot be denied. Conflicts do exist in… Read More »Resistance to Acknowledging Conflict
One of the factors in direct opposition to holiness is what the Bible describes as ‘Worldliness’. Kevin DeYoung writes of Worldliness ‘The world stands for everything that opposes the will of God. In its simplest form, this means “the desires… Read More »Holiness – Part five: Accommodation
Joseph Fletcher’s book called “Situational Ethics” became a best seller in the 1960s. It was linked at points with the emergence of the so called New Morality. The “situational ethics” thesis was this: the Christian faith was not based on… Read More »Holiness – Part Four: What About Love?