Even the Devils Believe

Amy Welborn shares information about a number of famously mis-attributed quotes, including a couple falsely attributed to St. Augustine. As an Augustinian oblate, I found those particularly interesting.
First, it turns out that the quote “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials [or doubtful matters], liberty; in all things, charity,” is in fact from a Lutheran divine [...]

The past several years, Apple has been building a project called iTunes U in collaboration with a number of prominent universities. iTunes U includes podcasts, videos, and other materials these schools choose to share with the general public — they’re not exactly a substitute for classroom time, but they’re a nice continuing/adult ed resource.
I was [...]

Recently bls reposted this article by Fr Tobias Haller, BSG, about the central dogmas of Christian faith that are violated by certain arguments against women’s ordination. I was very taken with the argument when he posted it but had forgotten where I heard it until bls reposted it.
The topic of WO has since come [...]

Dwight asks about the books that have been formative for us in our faith journey. He points to some really good ones (and some geeky ones that only an expert in early 20th century liberal Protestantism would read!).
I mentioned a few in this response to Daisy’s question about Roman Catholic writers in a post [...]

The conversations around the blogosphere recently about doctrine and its role in Christian faith have been interesting — at least to me. It occurs to me there is a distinction which is often lost in discussions about Christian doctrine, however.
People often accuse churches that hold strongly to central doctrines of Christianity as being intolerant [...]

Chris of Lutheran Zephyr has a post up playing with an interesting metaphor for the Church’s work of evangelism and formation. Rather than letting the framing of “seeker-friendly” dominate, he suggests we look at the Church in terms of “special exhibits” and the “permanent collection”. Just as museums draw folks with the more [...]

I’ve been meaning to follow up on this post (which was a response to this one by Bob Cornwall) for months now, mulling over what I mean when I say that God is love — in fact, what I mean by “love” in a religious context at all.
Christianity intends itself as a radical departure from [...]

Today is the Annunciation — just eight days after Easter and we are already beginning the story of the Nativity!
Here is a quote on Mary’s joyful assent to the Incarnation, and what that assent means for our own call as Christians, from Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Mary: The Church at the Source.
But Jesus’ [...]

There’s a really useful post here looking at the work of Kathryn Tanner in relation to Rowan Williams. The post and comments are an interesting discussion.
The central concern here is that Tanner espouses a theology of giving “from abundance”, whereas Williams suggests giving necessarily entails painful sacrifice and self-limiting. The crux of the [...]

I found this appraisal of Jeffrey Stout’s work interesting — I admit that, while I have tried to follow Stanley Hauerwas’ answers (unsatisfactory, thus far) to Stout, I’m relatively unversed in some of the other strains of theology that are critical of his vision of the public sphere. Millbank in particular is a [...]