We do need to be able to recognize evil, but it is not always easy to do so. Intriguingly it was when the American psychiatrist Scott Peck was researching his book on evil, People of the Lie, that he became a Christian. He asserts that when counsellors encounter evil in their counselling, they need to …
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Editor’s note: This article first appeared in The Big Picture (TBP), a publication of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology (KLC). As long as a Gnostic impulse continues to course through the veins of so much modern, Western Christianity we will not recognize the importance of a voice like that of Wendell Berry. Gnosticism …
The great theme of Jesus’ public ministry was the kingdom of God. In Jesus, God was intervening in history decisively so as to recover his purposes for his entire creation and to lead it towards the destiny he always intended for it. Not surprisingly, therefore, the kingdom of God is also the theme of Jesus’ …
INTRODUCTION It is wonderfully serendipitous (providential) that in the year that Herman Bavinck died John Stott was born. Both are colossal figures whose gift has still to be fully received and who remain as relevant as ever. Both were brilliant academics, both spent time in the pastorate, but whereas Stott elected to stay in the …