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S. Mark Heim
S. Mark Heim teaches at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale. His books include Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religion.
Rowan Williams sees creation through the human, divine Christ
The incarnation doesn’t require a miracle; it reveals one that’s already there.
Saved by Islam?
Submission is billed as a cautionary tale about Islam's threat to Europe. In fact it's more of an introspective tract on the West's ambivalence about survival.
The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant, by Michael J. Gorman
For there to be a heresy about the cross, there would have to be an orthodoxy about it. Michael Gorman argues that contentions over how Jesus saves lead to an inadequate grasp of what the Passion means and does.
Fervent and open
John Lennon's peace anthem "Imagine" can also be seen as an antidiversity hymn. Brian McLaren imagines something different.
What makes a Baptist?
Scholars who devote themselves to interpreting Baptist tradition must contend with a community that is not sure it has one.
Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Prior to the Allied campaign in North Africa, GIs were issued handbooks designed to prepare them for th...
Malaysian model: A different kind of Islamic state
Delegates to the World Council of Churches’ Faith and Order Commission meeting in Kuala Lumpur in August had the novel experience of seeing their sessions covered in the Malaysian media with the in...
Doubting theology: A faith worthy of doubt
How do Christians understand their faith in light of insights gained from history, social science, natural science and other modes of inquiry?...
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God’s diversity: A trinitarian view of religious pluralism
Christians believe in a complex God, three coeternal persons living a single enduring communion....
Dreams fulfilled: The pluralism of religious ends
Imagine for a moment that we meet an angelic visitor who can tell us the future, and we ask whether some person we know will be “saved.” Suppose our visitor says, “No, she will no...
Something to declare: Checkpoint for Christian unity
Over a weekend in November, veterans of the ecumenical movement gathered in Indianapolis to celebrate the career of the dean of North American ecumenists, Paul A....