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Religion and International Law: Matching Mission to Vision [Santa Clara Journal of International Law Symposium Keynote]
Outsiders
...I\u27m going to talk about outsiders, and I have not been an outsider very many times in my life. It is a rare feeling, and I think in the first 45 years I know I don\u27t look that old, but in the first 45 years of my life, I\u27ve been an outsider twice, both times with Christian groups, which might say something
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Faith for Faithful Disbelievers: Christopher Morse as Systematic Theologian
Christopher Morse has set out to salvage "dogmatics" as a theological discipline, but a first-year seminarian might naturally wonder if her teacher isn’t dodging the big issue. The most natural question for dogmatics would seem to be: What should any individual Christian, personally, believe? Yet even the faith statements Morse eventually offers are usually stated in terms of doctrine as in "the Christian Faith" or "the church’s faith in God the Creator," and a reader is bound to wonder if these locutions aren’t more sociological than personal, presented in terms of "the deposit of faith"—the "traditioned" symbolic representations of the "social facts" associated with worship. Now it’s true that when it comes to what should not be included among those doctrines, Morse’s recommendations seem to take on a more personal aspect
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Book Review: The Difference Heaven Makes: Rehearing the Gospel as News
These days, anyone speaking of "heaven" in theologically serious tones has some explaining to do. That person faces what Christopher Morse might call an "accountability" requirement. Morse has invested an entire career in working out what this means, and his new book, in addition to its other benefits, provides a window onto how this procedure -- which so many students have heard so much about -- actually works. As with scripture itself, however, its best secrets are not revealed by a casual reading.
The Difference Heaven Makes begins by pointing out that talking about heaven is not easy for many of us. Or shouldn’t be. Easy talk about "heavenly" matters easily drifts either into complacent sentimentality or anxious superstition, and so we had better listen carefully before just looking "Lo, here" and "lo, there.
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