Category Archives: Church

Webber: The Divine Embrace 4 – Romanticism & Pietism

Posted on February 4, 2008 by me

The second shift away from ancient spirituality resulted from the romantic movement and influenced spirituality toward a preoccupation with experience. –Webber, page 89 The Enlightenment (or so it has been called) resulted in a shift toward an intellectual, reasoned approach … Continue reading →

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Webber: The Divine Embrace 3

Posted on January 31, 2008 by me

The primary difference between the Reformation and the modern period of history is that the Reformation looked backward to regain the source of ancient church while the modern era, shaped by an anti-historical attitude, looked forward. As Webber explains in … Continue reading →

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The Divine Embrace 2: heresy vs. spirituality

Posted on January 20, 2008 by me

Webber, as I mentioned in part 1 of this series, defines spirituality as “a lived theology.” That is, Biblical spirituality is based on the core teachings of the Church, as expressed in the earliest creeds. The early heresies, such as … Continue reading →

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Two views of Scripture

Posted on January 19, 2008 by me

Some time ago I wrote a bit about the authority of the Bible, which you can read here. Beneath the issues of orthodoxy, orthopraxy, theology and denominationalism we will often find some discussion about the Scriptures, with questions as seemingly … Continue reading →

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