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"Mission Is the Shape of Water: Learning from the Past to Inform Our Role in the World Today" by Michael Frost
No full textReview ofMichael Frost, Mission Is the Shape of Water: Learning from the Past to Inform Our Role in the World Today (Cody, WY: 100 Movements Publishing, 2023), pp. xxii + 254, ISBN 978-1955142403 (paperback) £13.99; ISBN 978-1955142410 (e-book) £8.9
"Religion and Outer Space" edited by Eric Michael Mazur and Sarah McFarland Taylor
No full textReview ofEric Michael Mazur and Sarah McFarland Taylor (eds), Religion and Outer Space (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023), pp. xvi + 267, ISBN 978-0367542276. £35.9
Autism and Church: A reflection
Full text linkThis is a reflective piece on the experience of an autistic child and their family in churches over a period of years. It considers a variety of church practices in terms of their encouragement or inhibition of the child’s journey of faith and their experience of welcome, safety, and love. It also draws a contrast between the church practice of welcoming and the experience the autistic child and family have had at one of the centres of the Riding for the Disabled Association, and its very different approaches and ethos held in relation to those who are disabled
Editorial: Ecumenism in Scotland
Full text linkWhat should we be learning from each other, and with each other, in the increasingly post-Christian context of today’s Scotland? For this issue of Theology in Scotland, contributors were invited to explore various facets of ecumenical theology and reflect on different expressions of ecumenical engagement
Behind the eye: Donald M. MacKay and the 1986 Glasgow Gifford Lectures
Full text linkThe 1986 Gifford Lectures were delivered by Donald M. MacKay, Emeritus Professor of Communication and Neuroscience at Keele University. The ten lectures were later turned into a book titled Behind the Eye. This paper, in our series on notable Gifford Lectures, provides a summary of MacKay\u27s arguments as they relate to natural theology, along with some critical comments
The Divine and The Human: On Mixed Relations in Aquinas
Full text linkAquinas’ exposition of the relations between creator and creature has provided an important framework forilluminating aspects of the mystery of the incarnation. He maintains that while creatures are really related toGod, God is not really related to creatures. This doctrine of mixed relations in Aquinas’ theology describesthe character of the relation between God and humanity such that, when Christ incarnates, the doctrine ofimmutability is preserved
Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners: Paradigms for Holiness and the Priority of Being in the Dostoyevskyad
Full text linkThe writings of Fyodor Dostoyevsky represent a passionate struggle to display Christian holiness. As an icon in the Orthodox tradition communicates something of the beauty of the Christ, so too are each of Dostoyevsky’s characters an icon, a sacred receptacle by which the grace of God might be displayed. No figure is immune from such a representation, indeed, often it is those who are most sinful and depraved through whom God’s grace shines brightest in the Dostoyevskyad, and merely those who are indifferent to such a grace that repel it. Holiness, for Dostoyevsky, relates to being and intentionality. Those who relate to being with a passionate intensity and commitment, are those who know God, whereas those who are completely indifferent to being, are merely stooges of the devil
